Created: February 20, 2009
Modified: April 23, 2009

The "happy" is done with ArtQuest watercolor palette, blended with H2o, outlined with a gold gel pen, accented with black Micron dots, And Peel off Flourishes trimmed to fit and peel Off dots added here and there and along the trunk of the "h"

"Birthday" is also done with ArtQuest, outlined with a black Micron pen

Both these letters were done with Prisma colored pencils, a touch of white in the "K" and blended with a Lyra Splender Blender. Blue dots were added to the "J" and glitter and gold dots to the "K".

Joy was also done with Prisma colored pencils. the flourishes with a green Zig marker and leaves and flowers were rubber stamped using Versafine stamp pad. Some gold dots were added.

Compare it with the "J" in June below

June was also done with Prisma colored pencils. the flourishes with a black Micron Pen after the rubber stamping of the leaves and flowers. I had penciled in the path for the flourishes so I had an idea as to where to put the leaves.

Rubber stamped my leaf and flowers onto a piece of tracing paper, cut off that little section so it was easy to manoeuvre, erased my pencil line in that area of my flourish, then rubber stamped using the tracing paper image as a positioning guide. By erasing the lines the flowers and leaves blend better within the flourish lines, rather than looking like they were just put there.

The quote was written with a micron pen in the "Basic" lettering style from Class #1.

PS the black glossy paper I used was first run through my Zyron so there was no messy gluing of fine lines.

You don't always need color to make a statement or to have "punch" to a decorated letter.