Oh wow, this is fantastic!

Wow.  I love it. I followed the pattern around - I might have been confused as to what belonged with what. I never know whether to do the background. I have a couple of times, but am usually afraid of ruining the page with a bad background decision!  

Honestly, I had the mustard marker in my hand.  Picked a spot and saw where it took me.  I have fun with patterns like this because I kind of mentally get lost just following where it goes.  Then when I see the pattern pop out to me a bit more I can make decisions from there.  There's also no worry about keping things realistic  or not.  

I also love the red in the middle and corners. Really great job. @clueliss!

Gorgeous!!!

(But then again, I'm obsessed w/all things Celtic.) 

Beautiful.  I think it looks great with the background left plain.

I have seen those pipsqueak markers, but never really considered them.  I don't think I have any crayola markers except for the "special" sets like metallic, glitter, etc.

I am really lacking in nice browns/neutral colors and the colors you used are really great.  I guess I will pick up the pipsqueaks next time we hit Michael's.

They're nice for work because the crayolas are washable and then I don't wander the office with marker on the side of my hand.   

On 1/11/2016 at 11:05 AM, clueliss said:

They're nice for work because the crayolas are washable and then I don't wander the office with marker on the side of my hand.   

I've never done that *cough*    Last week or 2 weeks ago, I happened to look down at my hand and not only was the side all glittery, but several fingers had a rainbow of various colors on them.

I liked this so much i was going to buy the large pipsqueaks pack. Thankfully i tested the fit in my hands first and they were way too small. I have pretty small hands to begin with so i don't really understand how everyone else is able to use them.  I ended up settling for the 50 ct. Crayola fine line markers.

I consider myself to be on a Crayola budget. I don't make pictures to frame or anything so i can't justify spending so much on markers and pens.  By sticking with Crayola I can get a lot of different sets of pens/pencils for what i would have to spend on fancier sets.

they are small.  As in both short and narrow.  I also have small hands & fingers.  But then I write and color with my nose (as in face very close to desk/page)  and a death grip on anything I write/color with.  Always have.  

I ended up buying the pipsqueak skinnies.  I'm not sure how I feel about them.  It seems like a couple that I used were already drying up after only one page (and not even used on the whole page).   I am still giving them a chance, but I probably won't rebuy if I find more that seem to dry out really fast.