Illustration Friday: EXCESS

"Excess baggage" Watercolor & acrylic ink on paper for this week's Illo Friday :)

Hand Carved Stamps Tutorial Part 2

Whew! The weather has been unseasonably rainy this week and I thought I wouldn't have time to do Part 2 of the tutorial, but the sun cam...

Custom pieces

Custom pieces for my friend Mariana, she will frame and give these as Christmas gifts to her little nephews and niece :) Two "to do...

Stickers

My friend Mariana makes the BEST cookies & baked goods and she asked me to design two stickers: One to use as a label for a jar she'...

To do lists...

I'm trying to tackle a whole bunch of to do lists these days to be able to have a nice and relaxing holiday season. I recently moved my...

A lotta Lotta

I just recently bough these wonderful books by Lotta Jansdotter and they're so full of inspiration! Starting from the left there's ...

Bible verse of the week: Psalm 19:1 & 4:8

Psalm 4:8 says: I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, LORD, only makest me dwell in safety. I LOVE that verse! Great choice...

Illustration Friday: THE ZOO

Although I am not particularly fond of looking at caged animals I think these guys look quite content :) Watercolor and micron pen on Fabria...

Hand Carved Stamps Tutorial Part 1

This is a list of the tools that I use to make my stamps. You can certainly use other alternatives. I am linking each item to Dick Blick sim...

Carving the bird

Although I didn't do any turkey carving yesterday I did have fun doing some unconventional bird carvings with my Speedball cutter :) I c...

It's official...

Hope you are all enjoying a wonderful Thanksgiving with your loved ones today.

I'll be back on the 20th...

We are going on a little trip to sunny Acapulco with some friends till the 20th... If you buy anything from the shop it will be shipped on t...

Wings

"The key" "Pleasant pheasant" "Blue bird with flowers" Done with watercolor & ink on handmade Yute paper. ...

Interviewed

My friend Lori Pickert at the Inspiration Boards blog just posted a really fun interview with me, You can read it by clicking here . Thank ...

Bible verse of the week: Psalm 98:7-8

Watercolor and acrylic ink on Fabriano watercolor paper. Click on the image to see it BIGGER. This week's Bible verse was chosen by my g...

Bird collection

I got some amazing goodies in the mail this weekend. I'll be blogging about all of them this week :)

Illustration Friday: SCALE

That's all I could come up with this morning :) Hope you all have a wonderful weekend! Done using a Micron pen & my own hand carved ...

Noviembre

Journal pages for the first two weeks of November 2007. I stamped the background with the eraser of a No.2 pencil & wrote Manolo's n...

Finger puppets

To say that I'm hooked on this needle felting thing is an understatement :) What you can do with a simple barbed needle and some fiber i...

Needle felting

I had been dying to try out needle felting so I bought some supplies (felting needles & ecofriendly foam) from the talented Moxie of Ma...

Bible verse of the week: ISAIAH 40:31

Watercolor and ink on paper. My friend Oliver and I will be illustrating a Bible verse every week and posting it every Monday on our blogs...

A special drawer...

My hand carved stamps were getting a bit out of control, so I had to give them a special drawer. So many blog visitors have asked me about m...

Illustration Friday: HATS

Hand carved stamps, watercolor and micron pen on paper. Click on the image to see it ((((BIGGER)))) Hurray for hats!

Wren

This little wren doesn't want to get wet. Watercolor, ink & collage on wood veneer.