Gab with Gaby

An engineer's creative corner studio.

Digistamps

Gab about encouragement

Graphic, 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. 

 

Shoot across the sky. 

Shoot across the sky. 

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. 

 

Always have hope. 

Always have hope. 

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

 

Dance with me! 

Dance with me! 

The feelings ninja. 

The feelings ninja. 

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! 

Christmas Cards Galore

Cards, Crafts, Stamps, Graphic design, Christmas, Paper crafting, GraphicGabriela SimsComment

I recently became a designer for Darby Smart and my first launch was a boxed set of Christmas cards with my original designs on them.  There are 3 designs right now, and soon I will have a total of 6.

 

Happy Holidays

Happy Holidays

Black & White

Black & White

My resident fox. 

My resident fox. 

They are in boxes of 8 and they come with envelopes, you just add postage!  

 

All boxed up! 

All boxed up! 

I am so happy to be able to debut my own artwork on greeting cards. I have a few more designs in my head that could come in handy.  Hope you're inspired, happy crafting! 

Wacom pads are amazing!

Paper 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... 

 

Finished sketch

Finished sketch

Screenshot  

Screenshot  

 

Into this  

 

Digi!! 

Digi!! 

It took some time, but I am SUPER pleased with the result. It opens up a whole new way to make cards and scrap pages! Happy Crafting! 

Making Digistamps

Diy, Cards, Paper crafting, Drawing, Stamps, DigisGabriela SimsComment

So I had the idea to start turning my drawings into digital stamps so here is my first sketch. This little geisha will be the first in a series!  

Pencil outline first. 

Pencil outline first. 

Marker

Marker

Now she's all done. 

Now she's all done. 

I will start posting these in my etsy shop for people to download and color! Happy Crafting!  

All colored in with Copics

All colored in with Copics

All colored in with Tombows  

All colored in with Tombows  

I really liked both, but the Tombows started to bleed at the end 😭. I still love them for watercolor paper though.