Desperate Housewife Craft

I have been having more and more success with painting loose florals. If you’ve followed me since the beginning of my painting journey, you know loose florals have always been very difficult for me. But after painting for almost 100 days in a row, some instincts have set in and its becoming a little more “good” intuitive and less “I don’t now what I’m doing” intuitiveness! 😂 Muscle memory plays…

I gave myself the challenge today to paint a friend’s white cat, but with my vibrant colours! It was not easy😅 It was a really good exercise in looking for nuances cause all watercolourists know that painting white means painting the dark shades around the white. It was not an easy exercise. I kept on wanting to give colour to the white parts instead of shaping the white parts with colour. But…

Ever since I started receiving custom orders for my pet portraits, I would be so nervous to the point that I would procrastinate the start of my painting for as long as possible. I would have a knot in my stomach all through the painting process at the fear of messing it up & didn’t really enjoy painting at all. I would also be convinced that the client wouldn’t like it. It helped that the…

This painting started me off on my “paint happy” series. I couldn’t help smiling all the while painting it, and I hope it brings a smile to your face too! This painting is available in its original hand painted format or in prints. I will also gladly do custom portraits of your pets. All my paintings are hand painted using Daniel Smith and Winsor & Newton professional grade paints on 100% cotton…

Hi everyone! For our new challenge over at Merry Little Christmas Challenge Blog, I’m sharing a cardinal card I painted for a friend’s mother. Cardinals apparently represent devotion, loving relationships, courtship, and monogamy above everything else, in the Native American lore, I did not know that! I will try to remember that and paint cardinals for our next wedding anniversary for my…

A Year in retrospect

Happy New Year 2021! It’s the beginning of another new year! Another chance to do all the things we didn’t get to do last year, another chance to try new things, another chance to love more, laugh more and…craft more! I could say that I hope we have a better year than 2020, but personally, 2020 was a great year for me for learning new things… and connecting with people! With all the free time I…

This step away from perfection and going back to childish drawing is a huge step for me as I cannot remember a time I actually felt like a kid. So my goal to sketch my memories is also a great way to delve back into a past I haven't really thought about..

As 2020 draws to a close and with no parties to organise, food to cook or friends to visit, I can concentrate on working on my goals for 2021. You noticed I didn’t say resolutions, but goals. I think having goals are more concrete than resolutions. To me, resolutions define your wishes, but goals define what you want to do & where you actually want to be at a certain time. So my goals for 2021…

Learning to be loose…

So I’ve been painting daily for 5 days now and what’s different this time from any other attempts to paint daily, is that I’m re-doing paintings I’m already aesthetically happy with, but painting them again to try & do them more intuitively. Here are the first 3 tries, my first attempt on the left and last one on the right.

Day 1

Day 2

Day 3

I know, it’s looks like each painting just got worst…

Hi all! It’s the first of the month, so another challenge starts over at the “Merry Little Christmas” challenge blog. It’s always an “Anything Goes” challenge as long as it’s some craft object that is Christmas themed.

I decided to paint a Christmas wreath with my watercolor paints. It’s my first painting a wreath with poinsettias and birds but I followed a tutorial on Skillshare by Irina…

Hi everyone! It’s the 1st of October so a new challenge starts at the Merry Little Christmas challenge blog where its always Anything Goes, as long as it’s Christmas themed. This means you can join us with anything you made, be it a scrapbook, home decor, card… with a Christmas theme.

I just received my new Gemini foiling machine from Crafters Companion so I had to try it out, and it works…

Warm hearts & Bright memories

Hi all! It’s the first of September so time for another challenge over at the Merry Little Christmas challenge blog where the theme is “Anything Goes” with any crafty medium! You can create a card, like I did, do a scrapbooking page, journalling, house deco…as long as it’s Christmas themed.

My card was made in a minute as I used pieces that I found while clearing out my craft room to make room…

5 months to Christmas

Hi all! It’s already August! Where did half of this year go to already?

Sweet smell of roses

Hi all! Today I have a video tutorial for you showing how I water coloured this gorgeous yellow and red rose, using only watercolour markers! I also have the drawing of this painting for you to download, if you don’t want to waste time drawing and go straight to the painting bit! There is also another gift for you at the end of this post.

I have these beautiful yellow and red roses in my…

Watercolour bouquet using stamps

Hi all! Do you love those watercolour floral bouquets and wished you could paint them, but like me, are terrible at it? I think it’s the lack of definition and looseness in the style that throws me off. Well than, today I’m really excited to show you how you can easily recreate that watercolour look without even knowing how to paint!

All you need are the gorgeous “Garden of Love Floral…

Have a Java Christmas!

Hi all, It’s time for another Christmas card challenge over at the Merry Little Christmas challenge blog and as you know, it’s always Anything Goes as long as you make any type of Christmas craft project.

I decided to make a watercolour card centred around a coffee mug stamp from Pink and Main. I coloured the stamp with my SpectrumNoir watercolour markers and spritz it with water before…

It’s the 1st of the month and another Watercolour card challenge starts at the Happy Little Stampers blog. This month’s “Anything Goes” challenge with the option of layers, will also be the last for awhile, as Kylie, the organiser for this challenge, and many others, is taking a much deserved break.

So I decided to make a “Thank you” card for her, to thank her for being so patient and helpful…

In my delirium caused by my raging fever