I was curious about using some embossing and etching dies I had. The first nine dies are meant for metal. I liked the embossing but not the etching dies. I ran them through a Cuttlebug machine (meant to be used for embossing paper for greeting cards) and they worked. I didn’t want to run the plastic dies that are meant for the Cuttlebug through my rolling mill – thought they might smush. So on day 20 I tried a plastic die, with metal, in the Cuttlebug and it worked without smushing it, which means I can use it over and over!

My world of the Mystery of the Missing Socks is growing with many characters. Soon I will begin grouping them and building conversation poems between them. This is the princess. There is now a royal family: the king, the queen, the prince and the princess.

This card illustration came together in a single sitting. I’m really excited that this design work for the evolution and systems game Evolve! is giving me a chance to draw new animals. The red-billed oxpecker is a showy African native that moves with the migrating herds of ungulates. It lives off the parasites and insects associated with large grazers such as zebra and wildebeest.

This challenge is off to a slow start art-wise, but it’s feeling pretty good overall. This little guy made it into the card design for the new evolutionary resource game Evolve! More to come as other projects move aside.

I am trying to mix it up- c;lose-up details and views that give more information

I printed this image in sepia because of the subject matter

My first image. a Chinese scroll we received from a Chinese friend when she lived with us for a year