Carrot Card featuring OLO Marker

Yes, indeed, today is International Carrot Day. In fact, it was a post on the Bolthouse Fresh Instagram page where I first heard about this notorious event, which inspired me to get a little creative. While carrots are one of my top 3 favorite veggies, I'm simply taking advantage of this day to do a little sketching and coloring as I occasionally like to celebrate unusual holidays. It's been awhile since I penciled up, and I had so much fun creating this colorful carrot that features OLO Markers. They're my favorite artist markers and I've been using them exclusively for awhile. If you decide you'd like to purchase some for yourself, I have clickable affiliate links scattered throughout this post.

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Now, if you'd like to learn more about how the carrot earned it's own celebratory day, check out this link: https://www.daysoftheyear.com/days/carrot-day/

I also made a 36 second process speed video showing my drawing and coloring, over on Tiktok and Instagram, if you'd to check it out.

Pictured above, are the OLO Markers that I used on my carrot, plus a white gel pen for accents. For the center sections of my carrot, I drew in a touch of white gel pen, then quickly swiped sideways with my finger. This helps give a little highlight and accent the curve.

My coloring was done on 100 lb weight cardstock, by the way.

I felt like I needed to add more to my card panel, so I used a little tape to cover my carrot, then splattered on some Dylusions Black Marble Shimmer Spray. Rather than spraying, I unscrewed the top, then simply tapped the tube feeder to get little droplets.

The green patterned cardstock in the background is from one of my paper pads from Scrapbookcom, called Cotton Tail.

For my sentiment, I googled "carrot puns" and found that cutesy pun, "Sorry, I got a little carrot away". I typed it in Microsoft Word and printed it off my computer on white cardstock. A couple years ago, I downloaded a bunch of free fonts and this one came from Dafont.com and is called CJ Handwriting.

 

I really enjoyed creating this fun carrot card. I also tried to think of some appropriate occasions for giving someone this card. 

- Give one to your mail person or delivery driver after delivering an excessively larger order

- Give one to your spouse, after he/she walks in and see's that excessively larger order (haha)

- Hand one to your favorite barista for the outrageous customized specialty drink you ordered

Basically, it's a fun way to apologize!

You can also change the sentiment, there's lots of carrot puns out there. Thanks so much for stopping by today! 

Terri

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