Artist & Aesthete

*This post is sponsored by Walnut Hollow and Tombow USA and includes affiliate links. By purchasing through these links, I may receive compensation at no additional cost to you. With that in mind, I only ever promote products I love and use.* Hey y’all, today’s blog post combines two of my favorite brands: Tombow and Walnut Hollow! I’m no colored pencil expert, but I’ve been trying to learn them more, and lately I’ve been liking the look of colored pencils on wood, so for thi

Hey my friends! Today I have my latest mini album scrapbook to share with you! My Dad and I recently took a camping trip to Lake Easton, and obviously took a few pictures! For this mini album I used some supplies from my stash, but I also just bought some of Pink Paislee’s “outfitters” line, and I just love it and had to use some on this mini. I mean, just look at that leather badge that I used on my front cover!! love. Here are my pages: This mini album came together really

I made this moon journal months ago. I loved how it turned out, but for some reason is just got pushed aside on my desk and I am just now sharing it. I had checked out the book Bound by Erica Ekrem from my library. It has over 20 book binding tutorials and ideas, including a moon shaped journal! The moon journal Erica shared in her book inspired me to do my own. I photoshopped a picture of a moon to be pink. Because, why not? After that I printed it out and used it for my cov

Hey guys, so I am still unpacking my studio after our cross-country move but I wanted to share something really exciting that I did back in May- I painted my first mural! My Aunt (who own an earth ship and lives in Colorado) asked me to paint a mural along the stairway to her root cellar. She is a lover of fantasy so it is a magical gnome forest mural, with fairies, gnomes & more! Of course because I never doing anything too simple it is pretty detailed for being in such a sm

It’s time for an update on my adventures in making pine needle baskets! You can see my original post here, my 2nd set of baskets here, and my 3rd set here. This basket here is my most recent, and possibly my favorite so far. I made a leather and fabric bottom and I dyed the pine needles a fun aqua blue. I’ve found the trick to dying the pine needles is to dry out green needles in a dark area and that will turn them a really light green which you can then dye and it works bett

Hey guys, Happy Tuesday! It’s time for an update on my adventures in making pine needle baskets! You can see my original post here, and my 2nd set of baskets here. I’ve made a couple more recently so I figured I’d share photos of them! I decided to try making a vase shape, and I am super pleased with how it turned out. While I’m pretty sure it won’t really hold water (I’d have to find some way to seal it.) I still think it’s amazing and could hold fake flowers. Haha. I did a

Making pine needles baskets is a fun new hobby of mine, I like to work on them while I’m watching a Star Trek episode, or just chilling out. It’s relaxing. I shared my first 4 baskets here on the blog already, but I just finished both of these and I wanted to share them as well. It wasn’t planned, but they both ended up being inspired by woodland animals. I created the center for the first basket from clay and as I was deciding what to put on it, my obsession with foxes just

I’ve already mentioned that I spent a week staying with my Aunt and Uncle in Colorado last month. They live up on a mountain building an off grid house, which is pretty cool! Anyhow, while I was staying with them, my Aunt taught me how to make pine needle baskets! She has a couple of ponderosa pines on the mountain so that’s where we collected the needles from. So far, I’ve made 4 baskets and learned a lot making those! My first basket definitely isn’t perfect because it took

I don’t know about you, but I love the feel of a leather journal. It’s so soft, mysterious and full of promise! You could fill it with all sorts of stories and thoughts. Now, I’m not actually good at keeping a journal. I’ll write a few pages but then forget about it. Maybe if I make a leather art journal I’d use it more. I’ll have to put that on my list. Anyhow, if you want to make your own leather journal you can use my tutorial! These really aren’t that hard to make once yo

I saw the quote “Don’t tell me the sky is the limit when there are footsteps on the moon” on pinterest and loved it. I love anything space/galaxy themed so I decided to use this quote in my art journal for a space themed page. The “planets” were actually a page in a sketchpad showing examples of different mediums. I adhered the page into my journal and turned them into planets. I also had a moon stamp which was just perfect for this page. The background is made using gesso +

I’m sure you’ve seen my other mixed media bookmarks, but I made this set of 3 that I just had to share! I also did a tutorial, just in case you wanted to see my process. 🙂 Primary colors aren’t usually my thing, but I’m really loving how vibrant these bookmarks turned out. Supplies: Chipboard, Gel Medium, Paint Brush, Stencil, Gelatos, Clip Art, Stamp, Ink 1. Cut your chipboard into bookmark sized rectangles. Mine are 2″x7″. 2. Lay your stencil over top of your bookmarks an