Celebrate January with these fun art activities to celebrate silly holidays. Included in this bundle are drawing, coloring, crafting, stickers and writing activities to keep your students engaged. Celebrate Strawberry Ice Cream Day, Popcorn Day, Compliment Day, Chocolate Cake Day (my favorite) and Puzzle Day.  

Not interested in the bundle?  Buy the individual sets instead:
STRAWBERRY ICE CREAM DAY
POPCORN DAY
COMPLIMENT DAY
CHOCOLATE CAKE DAY
PUZZLE DAY

Check out more Holiday Drawing Activities.

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Wishing you a Christmas and New Year filled with love and hope. Let us rejoice in the precious gift of our Savior, Jesus Christ. And let us slow down to remember the gift of life and hope. Hug your loved ones, smile to strangers and be kind to one another. 

I am starting a free online bible study at Proverbs 31 of the book of 1 John and feel encouraged to share this freebie with you. It is learning and embracing the depths of love that God has for you and I that has given me a strong sense of peace and joy this day.  And I hope that you will be reminded of His love from this free print. Print it as many times as you like, but you cannot resell, redistribute or profit in any way from this design. If you would like to share this with your online viewers, friends and family, please direct them to this post and encourage them to download the print directly from my website. 

An original typography print to inspire yourself and others to embrace imperfections and mistakes. Purchase print here and enjoy. Download. Print. Frame.

I was sitting in church this past Sunday and enjoying the sermon about living our life in love. Many ideas for art emerged as well as one relating to this post. Jesus's sacrifice for us was described as a pleasing aroma to God and this had me thinking about the magnitude of love and living love out. I think God can not only see and feel love but he can smell the scent of love. Think on this, if love was a scent, what would it smell like? My 4 year old daughter once told me a white rose smelled like laughter. It would be interesting to hear her thoughts on this as well as yours. Share your comments below.

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I am excited to share these minimalist inspired freebie set of 4 designs with a total of 24 prints! You can download it here if you plan on doing some shopping or for a quick download click the file below. Print it as many times as you like, but you cannot resell, redistribute or profit in any way from this design. If you would like to share this with your online viewers, friends and family, please direct them to this post and encourage them to download the card directly from my website. Thanks a bunch and share a photo of your photo gallery below.

I took a break today from creating clip art for my TpT shop and decided to work on some printable wall art available at my personal shop as well as on Etsy.  It has been really fun coming up with some designs for some of my favorite quotes as well as ones that I came up with personally in my own life.  I hope they are encouraging to you and if you like any of these prints, check them out here.  

I'm excited to give you a sneak peek of a fun project that I'm working on as part of my art educational resources (will be available at my TpT shop and my independent shop). The idea is to create printable paper crafts relating to each letter of the alphabet. I hope to provide many resources that will nurture creativity in your students or children and help them to love art. This will be a great supplement to the Letter of the Week Curriculum for preschoolers and kindergarteners. 

Check out this listing at my shop and wishing you a fun St. Patrick's Day celebration! If you are interested in more educational resources that nurture creativity? Visit my Teachers Pay Teachers shop and have fun.

Teach your child or student the importance of shapes in art with this lesson. Purchase it at my TPT store.

This is a minimal greeting card design with a touch of elegance, using soft black and feminine pink colors that I wanted to share with you because you are awesome. Enjoy this instant download Valentine's Day card freebie. Send it out or personally deliver it to that special. Valentine's Day is not just for romance but also to celebrate the joy of having people in your life to love. Therefore you are able to print it as many times as you like but you cannot resell, redistribute or profit in any way from this design. If you would like to share this with your online viewers, friends and family, please direct them to this post and encourage them to download the card directly from my website.

Working on Valentine's Day inspired doodles makes my heart in a cherry mood (wow, that was cheesy). Stay tune as I hope to share a new freebie for the month of February and launch my personal website's online shop.

Happy New Year! To start off 2017, I am excited to offer this free card for download. You can print it directly from your home. This is a sneak peek of one of my designs from my Hey! Doodles (Print and Design Studio). You are able to print it as many times as you like but you cannot resell, redistribute or profit in any way from this design. If you would like to share this with your online viewers, friends and family, please direct them to this post and encourage them to download the card directly from my website.  Wishing you a year filled with new adventures!

Excited to announce that my TpT (Teachers Pay Teachers) Shop is up and running with products now available.  This shop is centered on offering art resources as in clip art for commercial use as well as art lessons, printable, worksheets for teachers and parents.  Check out my SHOP and some of my free items. Enjoy and have fun.

This is my photo for today from my Project 365 gallery of an incomplete watercolor painting that I'm reworking using the sakura water brush.  I hope to finish this painting sooner and I'm exciting to see what develops.

When I think of Jesus, I think of His relentless love for us and how He loves us no matter where we are at in this life.  Despite our mess, our pride, our mistakes, our weaknesses or shortcomings, He loves us enough to die and rise.  For this I am grateful and humbled by His grace and love. I hope to live my life with expectancy and hope. Praying that throughout your life that you will experience His relentless Love. 

My printed greeting cards are usually printed on an inkjet printer onto cardstock. I decided to experiment with an image transfer technique that I think will give them more ump and offer more variety to my greeting card line. It's suggested that this technique will work best from an image printed on a laser jet printer.  Since I only have an inkjet printer, I was lucky enough to find a tutorial using inkjet.  My finish piece is above and I am very pleased with the overall look. I like the vintage feel and almost stamp like quality of the print.  Here are the steps to trying this technique out if you are interested in learning something new and fun (it is so easy):  

1) Print image on transparency film from an inkjet printer.  Although the transparency film I used was meant for color laser printers (what I had available), it still worked out great for me.  

2) Once image is completely printed, I quickly placed it on a white cardstock (ink side on paper), pressed it and rolled over the image about 10 times with a brayer.  

3) Lastly, I carefully lifted up the film from the cardstock and there you have it - an image transfer!  Check out this website for visuals of the technique, if you're more of a visual learner like me. I hope you have fun!  Good luck.

By the way you, can use this technique for photographs as well and not just illustrations.

Side note, due to time constrictions, I've decided to push the launching of my online shop for Summer 2016.

I could have benefited from learning the carving techniques taught in sculpture class, however I dropped out of it during my college days.  But this mini stamp project was a lot of fun to work on.  Using carving tools and an old white eraser, I created the simple stamp above.  Some tips on tackling this project:  use basic and clean designs, nothing too busy and purchase a good carving/cutting tool kit such as the Speedball brand. Have fun!

I wanted to share a photo of a few digital designs that I am reworking from doodles from my sketchbook. These designs will most likely be placed on my greeting cards and they'll be part of my current big project: the launching of my new shop on this website! I cannot wait to launch it and I've given myself a deadline of December 1, 2015 to hold myself accountable and make it happen. It's been a dream of mine to have a small shop that I run, curate, design and produce personally.  Although, I have other shops that are print on demand ones (hey, check them out on the right side of my blog), this personal shop will be a labor of love.  Stay tune...

As of November 2015, I've decided that the launch date will be Summer 2016 instead of December 1, 2015 so that I can offer my best designs. Thanks for your patience.