Little Teeny Gift Bags

I made some little teeny gift bags! And so can you! I found this excellent template. You can resize the template to make varying sizes... After that, it's just cutting, folding and gluing. I used a glue stick, and then used the hot glugun to attach the handles. The smallest one was printed on a 3x5'' sized paper and is perfect for scrabble tile pendants. The medium one is printed on about 5x7'' and fits a bottlecap really nicely.

PHOTO BOMB! This is Peanut, and he wants presents.

In other awesome news, my sister sent me a medium flat rate box PACKED to the gills with our old bead stash, plus tons of other beads she picked up along the way. She hasn't touched 'em in years, so she figured I would use them since I craft ALL THE TIME. I'm realllly excited! After painting, beading was among my very first crafts! I worked at a bead shop in highschool, so it's going to be awesome to make some fun beaded junk! Anyway, I hope everyone had an excellent 4th of July weekend!

Annnnnd yet again, my 365 Posts Giveaway is still going on! Ends July 13th! Spread the word :D and thanks for entering!!!

Happy Independence Day!

Happy Fourth of July weekend!!! I hope everyone sees some awesome fireworks, eats some awesome food and stays awesomely safe!

Painted this little redwhitebluebird with an ooh-ahh face this morning! I attempted to make a glitter fireworks background, but it looked crap. So my great brother, Nate (very creative, and genius), made the above rad digital collage to help me wish you all a happy Independence Day!

ALSO! Don't forget the 365 Posts Giveaway going on until July 13th to score some free stuff! Have a beautiful weekend!

Fish Notecards

I've been having fun with art prints lately, so I made a set of notecards using mini-cutouts of fish I painted!

2 sheets of each of these paisley papers are included in the stack of paper in my 365 Posts Giveaway! If you haven't entered, be sure to do it! Thanks to everyone who's entered so far, and a big HI! to my new followers :D

When I painted these fish, they were considerably larger, almost a whole page... Shrunk down to about 2 inches, they make some pretty cute stickers :) It's nice to work with some art prints, because I can still make cards or whatnot with 'em and it doesn't take too long. It seems like after doing about an hour of housework, I hit my limit and don't have the backpower to tackle much else. I'm feeling pretty good though, slowly slowly improving...