If you’ve ever wondered how to get started making your own DIY hand carved rubber stamps, then you are in the right place! I started carving my own stamps a couple years ago for my art journals. Once I saw stamp carving online I knew I needed to try it! I loved the freedom to create…
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DIY Calendar Design for January 2018
With 2018 just around the corner, I decided to create my own DIY calendar design for the new year. I have been waiting nearly all year for this project! The idea came to me in the summer, when it was too late in the year to start. So I knew that I had to make…
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Inktober: Week 1 + 2
If I didn’t already have enough going on this month, I also decided to do Inktober for the first time. It’s an artistic challenge of creating in ink for every day in the month of October. The past two years I have seen it come and go and wished I’d made the time for it.…
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Moleskine Art Journal Cover
Last month I had the most perfect meet up with Lauren, the travelling artistic wonder of Lauren Likes and 1/2 of the awesome art journaling community, Get Messy Art Journal! She was in my part of the world with her husband and parents, off on a Canadian adventure. Luckily we were able to grab dinner with them…
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Scandinavian Flower Envelope Art
Getting some fun mail in your mailbox can be such a pick me up, which is why envelope art is so rewarding to do! I love dressing up envelopes for the mail I send to my friends. I usually do something easy and quick, and this way they have a little splash of colour between…
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Watercolor Skull Painting
I have been waiting to share this post with you for a while now, and here it finally is! This watercolor skull painting was a commission I did about a month ago for a really wonderful client in Florida. She contacted me to paint this for her as a sort of celebration for completing her Ph.D.…
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Easy Mixed Media Valentine Day Cards
These cards are a fun and creative take on the usual DIY Valentine’s cards. I always have a pile of mixed media paintings stacked on my shelves, and one day I thought they would look even better as cards. They’re super easy to make and can be made with just about any papers you have…
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DIY Handmade Artsy Christmas Cards
Okay, after putting it off for a few weeks, I have finally finished my Christmas cards and sent them out! This year we didn’t do any formal family photos, but it was also my daughter’s first year of preschool so she had school pictures done. And with just our luck, I happened to be…
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It’s Here: 31 Day Watercolour Challenge!
Why are vacations so hard to leave? Probably because real life is all about crumbs, making 3 meals a day, working in my sweatpants and feeling like the weekend is a lifetime away. Real life is pretty great though. I’m thankful my real life is just as fantastic as going on vacation. But real life…
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DIY Quote Canvas
The idea for this DIY quote canvas came about while I was tooling around on Pinterest a few months back. The quote, “It is well with my soul” is a line from one of my favourite hymns titled the same. Never heard it? Here’s my favourite version of It Is Well by Kutless. We…