Watercolor, hand lettering, and masking.

I wanted to try doing some hand lettering and water coloring and I thought the easiest way to do it would be to use my Molotow masking pen.  

I started by finding a quote I really liked from Aesop, and hand lettered it in pencil on a piece of Bristol paper. 

Beginning and some guide lines. 

Completed quote

Then I covered all of the lettering with the Molotow masking pen. 

All masked and ready to go. 

What I should have done here is erased my guidelines, but I didn't so they're slightly visible in the finished work, but if you are making this, now is a good time to erase them being careful not to disturb the masking fluid. 

Then I added my watercolor background and dried it with my heat tool.

Before the reveal... 

Finally I removed the mask with an adhesive eraser (they're very handy and won't cause your paper to pill). 

Finished product! 

Overall, I'm pretty happy with the results! The next time I do this though, I will erase my guidelines earlier and I will use a lighter sketch pencil when I do my hand lettering. Hope you enjoyed this, Happy Crafting! 

Inspiration is everywhere.

I love the new Coldplay album and Alabama Shakes' current alum. I've been listening to them both lot lately, and tonight I was inspired to make this drawing:

Simple black and white. 

I also changed up the letters and made some smaller ones:

A little variety. 

I colored one of them and I'm going to watercolor a few to see what I like best.

Fully colored

You never know where you might find inspiration, happy crafting! 

3 Easy Cards with Digistamps

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.

Yaassss, you did it!

Then I used Misha to say Arigato.

A fun, elegant thank you.

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

Happy birthday from a little fox.

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.