U- Z Last of the OZ Alphabet

Well gang it has taken some time but this is the last post of the Oz Alphabet cards I did for the Everything Oz group swap we are hosting. I really do hope that those of you that visit this blog have enjoyed them and that their owners will love them just as much.

With that said lets get into the cards--who they are, and how I did them.

U is is for Ureatha . She is a princess under a spell if I remember right and under that spell isa flying garden. Any way she is handrawn like all the others I have posted here and is done in water colors, markers, colored pencils and ink. She is one of those charactors that stick in your mind and maybe its the "goofy" story line or maybe its that oddball name either way, I just think she is a trip.

Well V is another great charactor from the books and a great play on words his name is Vaga the Vagabound, and while right now I can not remember which book he is from he was another awesome naemd chactor that just stuckl with me. All of these charactors can be found in a comprehensive book called "The Who's Who of Oz" by Jack Snow and some of the illustrations are in it.

He was hand drawn and done with water colors, markers, colored pencils and ink. I htink for me the other thing I love about this charactor is just the way Neill drew him and I tried to achieve by lloking at the pictures in the books. In many ways it would be neat to have a vagabound off traveling gypsies come visit every now and then.

Well W is a very intersting creature indeed and he is the Woozy. He comes from this great story from the "Patchwork Girl of Oz" I believe were they are trying to break a spell and they need three hairs froma tail of a Woozy to help break the spell. ANy how this creature is made entirelyof block shaped body parts and what is really neat about him is when he gets mad he spits fire!

Again a hand drawn card with water color paints, colored pencils, ink, majic markers

X was one of the cardest cards I did and it isn't so much how I did the card but just coming up with an idea---for me was the worst of it and is one of ONLY 2 cards that were not fully hand drawn. Maybe I can be forgiven for that one later one.

X is for X-tra special friends, X-tra fun, X-tra love and X-tra stories. The X's were these gelatin style stickers while the back ground is water color paint and markers primarily. The Wizard Of Oz X is newsprint frrom a desk calender I had and is modge podged on the card. It was skill wise on of the easier cards I did int he series .

Y is Mrs. Yoop wife of Mr. Yoop both of whom are in the books and both of whom are giants in the books. Beyond my memory is failing but may have to drag out the book to remember more of both of them. She in in "T inman of Oz" that much I am sure about.

She is hand drawn, colored pencils, water color paints,ink and this antique looking gold stickers in some of the corners just make this one a little different than all the others.

And finally Z--the very last in this series and she is Zelda, I can not remember right either which story she is from but she is hand drawn, water color paint, colored pencils, ink and embossing powder.

Again I hope you have enjoyed this BIG series it was a lot of work but it was also a whole bunch of fun.