Easter Envelope art 2023

 I wanted to show this around Easter but never got a chance. Things just got a bit crazy during the holidays. Mainly the "circus" came back to town next door and not the good kind. The bad neighbour kind. A four clown car circus complete with entourage of foolish "foolowers" as I would call it. Lots of un-purposeful multi door slams followed by honking of the security car alarm. Hopefully their doors will eventually fall off with the wear they placed on them. Lots of money will be uselessly spent too when you fix those doors. Yeah make all that useless petty revenge all you want cause your useless attitude shows where you come from.  All I had to do was place those noise blockers on and leave the room while the fools wasted their time acting like clowns. Get help ass clowns! And oh yeah I copied most of your licenses off your "clown cars" Enjoy! 😜

Anyways please enjoy the latest offering of envelope art with an Easter theme, crafted last year. I guess I'll save the latest one for next year. It promises to be a much more embellished and fun one for the eyes and heart. 😊💕

 

 Oh yeah and these are some of the texts from inside of the card I thought looked pretty cool. They were made using ordinary marker and topped off with white using some cheep white acrylic to create the cool FX of neon. Most personal info was hidden because not everything needs to be seen by the internet. Thank you! 

 

Birthday Envelope 2023 design

 Its another one of those "might as well post this even though its not what ever this season is from" post. Since the way it looks it really doesn't matter. It really could look like any season themed stuff. Well, its actually for a fall birthday but then it could be as I said before any season except winter I guess. Its yet more envelope art. Yay! This time we have a teddy bear on a swing theme. Turned out really cute. As usual I drew it quickly with blue pencil, covered it with white acrylic and added some colour with coloured pencil and marker. Very nice! 

 Also I think my slightly secret really big experimental project its at its half way point. I think I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. The editing stage will go quite fast depending how many personal tasks are going to get in the way since the yard work is nearing its new season of "must do". That and other things I have to complete as well. Again I hope its not all for nothing since I did put in a lot of time and effort in completing this personal project. Finger's crossed and lots of prayers.

Christmas Envelope 2022

 I thought I post this anyways even though it's Christmas themed....technically.  Its more envelope art I made based on the theme of a card. This one is a few years old but I only recently had a chance to fix it up for display. The theme was penguin friends giving Christmas gifts to each other. One of them had this fish wrapped up in some festive paper. So I quickly made this cute embellishment onto the envelope using pencil and then painting it with some white acrylic. I was trying to keep things simple so it would look like a gift tag. But I think I went a little over board. 

 

I guess it would also pass as some other holiday decorations too, such as Valentine's day. Its mostly red after all and catching a fish can also symbolize catching one's love or giving a gift of love. Sharing or whatever you find highly of value. I guess it would be in the eye of the beholder as to what it means to someone. Over all its nice to look at. Getting a surprise is nice too. 

Oh yeah speaking of surprises, I changed the Twitter/X feed thingy since it wasn't working like it used to. Greedy Elon wants money for that function apparently. So whatever. You can still see the feed but you have to get past the pooping bird button I made and placed in the usual feed spot.  Just watch out for the poop. LOL 😛Just kidding, the button will take you to my feed. Not giving that super rich guy what little money I have. 😏

Easter bunny envelope 2022

Looks like I'm catching up! Yay! 

Alright the last few year's I have been working on a secret personal project and was too busy with making homemade cards for friend and relations. So what I usually do is make a little something like decorating an envelope instead. So I drew I little something quickly and added a bit of colour to it. 

Hope you like my cute little busy Easter bunny transporting a very large decorated egg. Of course decorated with the address of a friend. For personal privacy, I deleted most of the address. 

I used a simple blue drawing pencil for easily erasable mistakes and great for quick sketches, used coloured pencils and markers to add the colour. 

 

 

 

Sorry I posted this a bit late for Easter time but it is still April after all. 

Also, now available, you can now see my previous card in my personal web site. As always just go to the menu at the side of this blog. 

Available for purchase you can now buy this lovely skate board featuring a dynamic little gecko packing POW! He's a Karate expert. I drew him many years ago for a friends profile as a gift. Edited and coloured in a digital image program. 

Thanks for visiting! 😊👍

Spring gnome Easter card 2021

 Featuring another homemade greeting card from a few years ago cause I'm doing the best I can to catching up on my "show n tell" stuff here on my blog. 

This one features a cute spring gnome, not a leprechaun, holding up a lilly of the valley flower stock for you. I know what you're thinking, but its a gnome, all right? 

I made a drawing of my character and then traced it on to a separate piece of specialized paper. I think it was either water colour paper or a piece of card.  I used coloured pencil and markers to add colour. For the background I made that on water colour paper and painted that with water colours and maybe a bit of acrylic as well. They turned out pretty pleasing and gave me that happy feeling like it was meant to. Then cut out my gnome with an exacto knife, carefully gluing and then placed it on to its background. It's been a few years so if I remember correctly I had already cut it into a card before painting? Or did I place that on some other folded card? Oh well none the less I did put it all together and wrote a few nice words of Easter greetings for a good friend. I also decorated a nice envelope to go with my card but I didn't have to make the envelope this time. I guess I had one on hand that didn't get ruined for one reason or another. 

Oh and oh yeah, I came up with the gnome theme since the last few years gnomes seemed to be popular. Thought it might make a fun card for someone. I still see a few gnome themes, just not sure how popular they still are.

Anyways I hope you enjoy it and gives you a bit of joy. 😊 Most things in the world today, do not. 😔

As always will be also be placed in my personal web site in the future for viewing. 

 

 Some original drawings. 🔻

 

 

 

 Inside of card. 🔻

 

 

 Back of envelope. 🔻

Front of envelope. 🔻

 

 Front of greeting card. Saved the best for last. 😉🔻

 

 

An update and a small show N tell

 Now displayed at my personal web site "Homemade Fall birthday card 2021 with leaf characters".

The link can be found in the side menu to your right. Also a lovely whimsical envelope art from 2020 that I just got around to sharing. Didn't need to make a card this time around. Just as well, that's when I started to work on this project that's taking a lot of my time for now. Hopefully not all for nothing.  So this cute little envelope illustration I made to match the theme of the card was just all it needed. 

 Created with coloured pencil, some marker and on an envelope.

Hope you like it. 

 

 

Home made Fall birthday greeting card 2021

 Welcome to another "catch up" share posting. 😜😊This time we have another fall birthday theme with some cute whimsical fall leave characters. It was very similarly created like another b day card I shared a few years ago. I used coloured pencil on coloured construction paper, layering on the drawing and colours till I got a satisfying result. I added a finishing touch with plastic google eyes like the cherry on top of a cup cake since I wasn't satisfied with the whimsy. Well that and the fact that the smirk made me feel a bit uneasy and might be taken the wrong way. In the end it turned out great. It was actually completed that same year just didn't use it right away for other reasons. Hope you like it. 😊

 

First I free-handed an image in a yellow pencil to make it stand out. 🔻

 

Second phase. Starting to add shading. Finding my way around the card. 🔻

 

Third phase. Really starting to take shape. Got to keep on working. 🔻

Forth phase. Just about done. 🔻

 All done and added the inside part of the card. Google eyes added. So cute!🔻

As always, I placed the image illustration on a piece of some kind of white card stock I had on hand. I can't remember what it was because it was a while ago but I'm pretty sure I got it out of my box o bits and pieces. That's where my small pieces of leftovers go when I finish a project. Comes it handy and less environmental waste. 

Added a cute message and other things of which I will not share for privacy reasons. Mostly created using marker and some coloured pencil 🔺

 

 

Since I didn't have an envelope on hand I simply made one out of an orange child goody bag purchased at any dollar store. Pretty inexpensive at the time but who knows these days with all this crazy inflation. 😒 Anyways I took the bag apart and folded it into the distinctive envelope shape. The size was pretty spot on for my needs. Then I put on the address and decorated it a bit with some cute fall leaves. As always personal info was omitted for obvious reasons. 

Hope you enjoyed my latest "make" even thought technically it was made a few years back. But its new to you, right? 

Thank you for visiting and as always it will be featured soon at my personal web site when I get around to it. 😊