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March 2025 Procreate Designs

Looking back on the art I’ve been making for the past few months I’ve done quite a bit of digital work.  I started really delving into Procreate when we went on Vacation earlier this year, and I haven’t stopped exploring the possibilities since.   While planning for our vacation in late February and early March of his year I opted to take only my camera and iPad.  No knitting, no sketch book, no art supplies.  This was the first time I’d ever taken only my iPad, with the intent of creating art while on a vacation.  I had a plan to limit my supplies and challenge myself to only using procreate.  My plan worked, I learned a lot about procreate and I enjoyed to process.   The biggest thing I learned was how very freeing being able to sit on the couch or the porch at night with just an iPad and a pencil was.  There was no figuring out where to put supplies, or how to juggle a sketchbook on my lap, or being confined to the table.  The other bonus ...
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Techniques Tried - Authentic Woodgrain

Woodgrain paper might be one of the more interesting papers in my stash of goodness.  Tim Holtz knew what he was doing when he brought this to market.  I've used it for any number of Christmas card projects, and my go-to look was as a white-on-white kind of background, but then I watched  Tim Holtz's video Demo:  Distress Paint.  Magic was sparked.


The idea for this card actually started with the bee I'd cut and pieced together.  The yellow wings and body were cut from a background in my stash.  I often make backgrounds for use later in projects like this.  I had visions of putting this bee on wood as if it had landed on an old fence or barn.  The idea grew from there with the decision to make a set of cards using all of the bugs in the die set.


While I don't yet own any sprays I was able to create beautiful woodgrain with my Distress Inks & Distress Oxides to build my wood color.  I used a combination of blending tools and ink pads direct to paper to achieve the color and depth I wanted.  


Not having any white Distress Paint didn't stop me.  I pulled some white craft paint from my gel print supplies and applied a light layer with a brayer over my inked panel.  Not happy with the starkness of the white, I pulled Weathered Wood from my Distress Oxides and lightly rubbed the pad over top.  



No two of the panels were identical, but they were the perfect backgrounds for my little bugs.  To complete each panel, I reached for my Simon Says Stamp stitched rectangles and die-cut them.


I completed the card with a simple sentiment on a small banner die.  I wanted the bug on each card to take center stage and be the focal point of the card.  


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