Gab about encouragement

December 22, 2015Graphic, Graphic design, Color, Tutorial, Paper crafting, Drawing, Cards, Crafts, Digis, Coloring, How to, DiyGabriela SimsComment

This is a card I did to follow my other "Sound & Color" card from last week. I used the same artwork, but changed the background to distress ink and acetate.

I wanted to do a mashup of encouragement with my unicorn drawing as well, so I revisited that with a distress ink background as well, but used a normal card stock base.

I have some new ideas coming up soon for some of the doodles I put together.

I'll be posting cards with these in the next few days and I will try to post some tutorial videos for these techniques as well. Happy crafting!

3 Easy Cards with Digistamps

November 3, 2015Cards, Crafts, Digis, Diy, Drawing, Graphic, Graphic design, Paper crafting, TutorialGabriela SimsComment

So I have been doing my own artwork and using them as stamps and this weekend I had the time to really turn them into cards. I made three, one is a Congratulations Card, seen below.

Then I used Misha to say Arigato.

And finally, the resident forest friend wishing someone a happy birthday.

So these were very easy to put together, since I'd already colored the images after drawing them, I just printed them off and added some text and layers. These stamps are for sale in my spicyninja etsy shop if you'd like to make your own. That's all for now, happy crafting.

Treat yo' self!

October 15, 2015Stamps, Reviews, Digis, Drawing, Graphic, Cards, Diy, Paper crafting, CraftsGabriela SimsComment

So I have been playing with the idea of making a card for one of my favorite phrases and here it is...

This is a birthday card for one of my girlfriends! I drew Sonia a while back and just cut her out with Print & Cut on my Explore so I could attach her to this card. I used glitter vellum in a Cuttlebug embossing folder, some pink glitter card stock, and a Recollections edge punch. The card size is 5" X 7".

I also received my Dazzles in the mail today from Hot off the Press and used them to make this...

Done using double sided adhesive, micro fine glitter, and Copics.

So that's it for today's projects, happy crafting!

Wacom pads are amazing!

October 14, 2015Paper crafting, Reviews, Digis, Cards, Tutorial, Drawing, Graphic, Graphic design, CraftsGabriela SimsComment

So I LOVE trying new products and techniques, but I just fell in love with the Intuos tablet. It makes it easy to clean and perfect your drawings. I have the Sketchbook Pro option and I can honestly say it's totally worth it. The tablet and software allowed me to turn this...