Spooky tags and a gift for you!

Hello sweets! I have a fun gift for you!

This digital download with an original

skull painted by me for a spooky

creation! Please right click, save and print
for your personal use!

Then check the little tags tutorial bellow

for some inspiration! ;D

I`ve cutted the skull shapes out and used a flower punch

on some pink paper...they look so cute already!

Then I`ve used another punch to cut some big flowers as the tags!

Use spooky colors!

And used another punch for circles, if you don`t have these you can use

regular tags that are already made or hand cut the shapes!

I`ve added a cute hat and the flowers in different sections

to add variety, then punched holes and attached eyelets!

You can change tehe eyelets for some that are made out 

of paper or simply leave it as it is!

You can add a cute ribbon and attach around

 the gift bags filled with some treats!

Hand write a sentiment and voila!

Celebrate life! 

and make someone happy this Halloween!

I hope you enjoy this!

"Moonlight" new acrylic painting and giveaway winner!

Hello magical beings, I hope you are well but most important

 that you are  H A P P Y ! :D

Happiness should be the priority in life, finding true

Love and Happiness inside yor heart!

Sounds poetic and dreammy but it takes deep wisdom to reach for it

and hard work on removing personal issues wich can take hours of

self discovery and lots of errors but those errors are part of the

wisdom acquired, don`t you think?

I want to share the news about Hands and Heart studio, I`ve painted a new

witch, this time I saw this girl sitting on the moon watching how the moonlight

is reaching the corners of the land, sometimes we don`t have to do anything

but stay quiet and observe.

I feel so lucky that my new kitty found me, she`s amazing and so much love is born in my
heart because of her, she`s magical, everything around us is magical, we just have to
stop the everyday world and watch, remove the clouds to breath the purity of the sky
that is there everyday, those are the things that we should be absorbing!

You see the world with your heart, you breath what you have become

and all this can be better each day by letting go of the old self, becoming

new each time you can remeber that everything changes, sometimes painfully,

some others easily... growing to become a great YOU!

I am also working on my new online workshop and I am trully amazed by the
possibilities, I am having a great time and I can`t wait to share all this, it opens this
next December 1st and you can read more about it here... or in the previous post!

I am really happy with all this new tools and feel really blessed with all this
 I feel I have to share it too, this is for those who want it!

This are all made with my own design stamps and I am also trying things
to make my own inks and paints but this won`t be part of this workshop
for that still needs more study but I will share design techniques
and how to use the stamps in different ways  to make your own
 fabrics, papers and lots of personalized projects!

Join us in the fun of making your own home made stamps!


Finally as promised, the halloween hand made cards give away
 goes to my sweet friend Beth Pollock!

I couldn`t belive her luck today but I am so happy with it! She`s a fantastic
woman, so full of beauty and love, please also check her new blog wich is
beautifully embellished and check her first post with beautiful photos
that show a magical place that appears to be from a fairy tale!

I hope you stay in touch and that you have a fantastic creative day!

  

Spooky whimsical caracters

This is my latest spooky acrylics painting  "Noche de brujas"

witches night, a cute sweet girl in her Halloween custom going for trick or treat so 

be ready to give her a sweet treat or else be ware of a horrible spell!  Lol!

Of course she`s  listed over my Etsy  SOLD! THANK YOU! 
for those who love Halloween and collect cute spooky paintings!

Are you a card lover? I am! I remember making my first cards and I feel so humble 

about how people used to encourage me to keep going! I now am a lot more confident
on making them, I know its simple to make them but there is something about the design
 part that take it`s time to develop, here are some ideas to make some fun cards for this
next Halloween along with a brand new digital collage sheet I`ve created to make them!

This time I`ve recycled some pages form old magazines, I just have a huge collection and so
I will be experimenting with all that material!  This time I simply used them to make some papers
to create this cute cards bellow!

I simply went over  them with some acrylic paints, no guesso, no sanding, no prep, just paint!
How about that? So simple and it works! They crumble a little so I ironed them to make them
flat again of course with a paper on top or else you will ruin your iron!  And that`s it!
Happy, happy, easy, easy soooo happy! ;D

Of course they are made with spooky colors, you can make your palette unique and use it to create
your projects by going for the colors you truly like!  No science, simply use those favorites!

And this is the newest digital collage sheet I was talking about, it`s super new and I love those
cute characteres which can be painted with color pencils, watercolor pencils, pan pastels, you name it!

It is now listed over my Etsy!

Here is one printed and cut, some with a punch, ready for more...

This time I`ve used my color pencils, I have a fun set of a great quality which at the end give a great result, I simply added a little color and shade a bit, again, easy!

I chose one painted magazine that I liked to go with the colors of each character, I simply put them

on top of them to see which look better!

Here is the gallery for you to be inspired! I hope you try my new spooky digital collage sheets

and have lots of fun making cards, tags, invitations and a lot more...

I simply attached the painted papers over card stock paper, sometimes simple is best!  Some images 

are  cut, some are left as they come, some have been fully painted and some just a little color!

In this one, I`ve added some glitter to the background and a circle punch to create

a spooky scenario! 

I`ve printed the mini set included over sticker paper and cut with a circle punch and used some

paper bags as the envelopes...

I looove! 

This are simply folded in a circle and they hold a candle inside!  You will have three

characters showing! I plan to put this over my window!

Is Halloween fun or what? I just love this celebration of life!

To find this collage sheets, please visit my Etsy! 

I hope you are having a great time planning your Halloween celebration!

As a gift to my dearest followers, 

I am giving away this set of 6 cards I`ve made,

simply leave a comment on this post

so I can count you inn the draw!

 Of course you have to be a follower to 

be able to enter! 

The winner will be announced

over the first post of October!

First painting of 2011!

 I want to share with you my first painting of the year

as well as some of the process of it...

every new painting is my teacher...

Sometimes they make me fly...

Some have a voice of their own

or even parfume...

This one was born a few hours ago,  January 1st, 2011,

 the first day of a whole new year full of stories,

lessons and more paintings...

May one of them bring joy to your heart!

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Also, as promised, here is the lucky winner

of my Moshi Moshi doll, Art Envy!

She will travel soon to the hands of her new mom! 

Thank you all of you who participated! 

Please write me about your email add so 

I can send it right away!

Happy new year!