Thursday, April 15, 2021
Gnome Get Well
Saturday, March 20, 2021
Gnomes Think Spring!
Friday, March 19, 2021
Mindy's course
Tomorrow, Sat March 20th, is the last day to enrol in Mindy Baxter's Online Copic Training course! Get in while you can, because it won't be open again until Spring 2022! Illustrations by Yours Truly (and yes, I get compensated for every sale of the course, so you know). Mindy's really good and you get so much for what you spend! Hope you can get in! GO HERE
Wednesday, March 17, 2021
Sunday, January 10, 2021
Sweet November Stamps Guest Designing
Hi Folks! Something different from me today - I was really honoured to be asked to do a guest designer spot at Sweet November Stamps. The illustrator (and colourist extraordinaire) Amy Young has long been one of my absolute favourite artists out there, and she just continues to inspire me and lead the pack towards making scene cards. I am just amazed at this woman's ability to (seemingly effortlessly) bring a scene together with her application of colour around an image. Anyway, these are her brilliant images, some dancing snowmen and critters that come in a couple of clear sets that just hit the shelves. I used two sets, "Frosty Feet" and "Drop It Like It's Cold", and I had so much fun creating this night time norther lights scene for them on a long card. I used Copics and then coloured pencil to create the scene and a whit gel pen for the stars in the sky as a final touch. If you haven't seen her work or her shop yet, you are in for a real treat! So head on over to her store here: Sweet November Stamps and if you are can, please go watch some of her colouring videos which she generously puts on Facebook for free! Her site on FB is "Adventures in Coloring With Amy" and of course she also has her Sweet November Stamps group on FB too, where you can see how others create with her images. There's lots of free demo's on there too, by her talented design team members, so if you are new to her store, you have a ton of crafty entertaining and informative video watching ahead of you!
Thanks for stopping by today!
Sunday, September 20, 2020
Gnome Haunted Forest
Halloween is just around the corner, and these little gnomes are getting scared! They are a red rubber stamp from Whimsy called "Gnome Haunted Forest". I coloured the scene with Copic markers. It was fun to make the dramatic lighting on the tree trunk and parts of the gnomes! I used the "Boo" sentiment from the "Penguin Spook Nite" set and stamped in white and then heat set with white embossing powder to make it stand out. I then used one of the dies in the "Comic Speech Bubble" die set to cut out the sentiment - so perfect for this occasion! Background paper is from the digital pack, "Starry Night".
Friday, September 18, 2020
My Creative Scoop's new course!
Mindy Baxter has another set of classes out for this fall! I partnered with her to draw the images that she is using for these classes. Didn't she colour them beautifully?! I just love her scene work! You can learn how to do all of these beautiful scenes if you sign up for her courses! The early bird price is only on for two more days, so get it while it's hot! Go here!