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I’m visiting family, and my niece who is a florist, requested one of my illustrated cups. I asked her what she’d like on it, and her reply was, ‘Anything.’ This is what evolved. Then she supplied me with random extra blooms from her shop, (and I may have purchased a small start to my spring succulent stash) so I could play with some flatlays. How much better does it get?Swipe for another version.
Shell I get started? I was eggcited to draw some eggcentric illustrations. I wanted to eggshibit some eggstraordinary skill, using eggsclussively @kellycreates fineliners to add some eggshuberant blooms to these eggs...but wait, the plot chickens, because I didn’t want to eggnore the impeggable ranunculus blooms I was given from @sparklingdahlia So in chick succession, I had a little shellabration and got a little eggstravegant with my photos. So for now I have eggshausted my puns...but I can now join in for this week’s prompt with @creativelysquared for #cs_egghunt2019
I’m running late on my #Homwork this week, guest teacher, @annlettering but I’m still going to jump in with this lettering introduction in the third person... Let me introduce you to Bonnie Peters, a creative dreamer that runs on coffee, and amazing grace. She wears many hats as an illustrator, watercolour enthusiast and lettering stylist. When she can’t find an item she’s in need of, she designs her own. This lettered piece was created using @kellycreates products and my newly designed lettering template/stencil.
‘T’ is for...Tiger Lilies...which I happily picked as a child, in our ditches where I grew up in Ontario. They are also the provincial flower of Saskatchewan, where I now live. This however is not the season to enjoy their blooms in person, (snowing again as I type) so I drew them onto another paper coffee cup, using @kellycreates fineliner markers 005, 01 and 03....swipe for more close ups. Joining @creativelysquared prompt along with @ofmixednotions #cs_tisfor
Dreaming of those soon coming days, when all the greenness begins to appear once again...so while some of us wait for that time, perhaps more eagerly than others, you could go check out my leafy, lettering tutorial on @kellycreates blog today, and created something ‘Spring Time-y’ of your own. Let’s also talk about #cs_creativeconfessions and throw in some fake green sprigs to brighten things up, as the only fresh piece of green in our outdoors, belongs to evergreen trees. We also have special deer in our part of the woods that shed John Deer green antlers each year. @creativelysquared @fakingbeautiful
This random flatlay was created around my latest paper coffee cup illustration...and that inspiration came from Barb of @keepingwiththetimes and her photograph of fresh lemons she posted recently. For another #cs_creativeconfessions with @creativelysquared and @fakingbeautiful ‘real versus reel’ ...I will admit that the background I used here is an Ikea cupboard door I purchased when I was considering it for our kitchen Reno. I ended up choosing glossy white ones, but I kept this one for photos such as this. Barb also has some great vinyl backgrounds for purchase, which would work great, so be sure to have a look. I’m thinking I need one of hers in the very near future, and it would travel with me much easier than a cupboard door. Once again the paper cup illustration was created using @kellycreates fineliners.

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