I’m going through a period of Spring Cleaning because frankly, I need it! When there’s stuff all over the place and it actually impedes your process of working…you know you really must clean up. So now I’m trying to balance this tremendous task with everything else in life as well as my runaway ideas that [...] See the full post »
Today was feeling a bit down with the gloomy rainy weather. I’m ready for Springtime, but apparently there’s still a lot of cold weather to come. I decided to make myself a new desktop wallpaper, something cheery. I ended up with this design – sort of calming cheery and I thought I would share it [...] See the full post »
Hello lovelies – Happy Wednesday! Thank you so much to everyone who entered my journal giveaway, I am so surprised and honored by the volume of responses. I hope the winners will enjoy using their new journal sketchbooks… Congratulations to Emily and Jen C.! You’ll each get one of the journals at random (more suspense!) [...] See the full post »
Hello dearies! Since I have no purpose for the journals I made I thought I would give them away to my lovely blog readers. Anyone need a journal sketchbook for some art making? I used materials I have lying around the house, so there might be wear and tear on the corners, but otherwise all [...] See the full post »
Happy Wednesday to everyone! I have been thinking about creating digital kits for scrapbooking, cardmaking and general crafting for a while now and decided that today I was just going to do it. Sometimes your fears and hesitations really hold you back from experimenting, so I had to tell myself that this was just an [...] See the full post »
Hi folks! Happy Wednesday to you. It’s hump day…middle of the week, you know? I wanted to share a little illustration with you…it’s an illustration I created for the Cool Mom Picks contest, but didn’t get picked in the end. I figured someone could use it for valentines, it’s meant to be printed and colored [...] See the full post »
I know it’s considered pretty geeky to watch and subsequently become obsessed with anime series. Stories range from classic romance to funny, whimsical characters and even quirky or downright weird at times. I’ve certainly gone through my fair share of passionate obsessions. I have a 200GB drive filled with subbed anime from my college years! Although [...] See the full post »
As the days draw nearer to Valentine’s day, I have been thinking a lot regarding love themed designs. I started sketching out some ideas and first came up with a bunch of medical themed, sort of geeky sentiments for greeting cards! I decided to whip up some printable valentines for my Etsy shop and just [...] See the full post »
Like many other artists and crafters, January is typically a time for organizing and planning. After the hustle and bustle of the holiday season, we can finally settle down and get focused for the upcoming year! I usually start my new year with making a few art journals to use and a yearly planner to [...] See the full post »
Hello to you this lovely Wednesday! With the new year just around the corner, no doubt we’ve all seen an amazing release of calendar designs and roundups on many design sites. I’ve seen so many great designs and usually end up with way too many calendars than actually needed. But I figure that having one [...] See the full post »
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