Gab about encouragement

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. 

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. 

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

Dance with me! 

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! 

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! 

Coloring with Markers

Hi everyone, I have started coloring more and I have to say I'm really enjoying it. The video below is for a masked stamping shaker card that I colored. 

I was so happy with this that I asked for new stamps for Christmas! I am also going to be doing some examples like this with my own drawings soon, until then, here are a few other stamps I finished. 

Original stamp

Masking

More masking

The finished jar!

Some super cute elephants. 

Some hearts on strings. 

The original is on the left and the right is after I added eyes, color, and glitter. 

I think I'm going to really enjoy doing these, happy crafting! 

Christmas Cards Galore

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

Black & White

My resident fox. 

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

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! 

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.