Watercolor & Contact Paper ART

The girls & I had some summer crafty fun after reading about this project over at Blissful Kids.
It was the perfect kid craft: simple.

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It's Snowing in 'WhiMSy love' World!!!

Holy snowstorm Crafty Girl! Well, it's not a snowstorm, but LOOK at all the snow! YAY! My girls love it. Me, not so much. I love to look at it, but I'm not really into the cold/wet thing. I love the yummy hot drinks that usually accompany fun snowy days though!


Awwww, look at the sweet winter lovebirds.....


Here's #1 (of 2) trying to get in a snowball fight with the photographer (that would be me.) By evening there will be about 7-9inches of snow & MORE predicted through Thursday!


But let me back up for a second & let you know how my morning began. Mr. WhiMSy love decided it would be funny to have a little pyrotechnic display of sorts. Lysol & a flaming match produced this spectacle for the girls. Seconds after this picture was taken, the smoke alarm (located 2 feet away from the flame) started screeching at an ear-deafening pitch & 2 little girls were frantically screaming. Fun times.


So anyway, after our day of fire & ice, I baked these cookies. These are the BEST invention evers! Just seperate & bake! Sorry to all you cookie purists for my enthusiasm.

And I had the MOST fantastically fun time last night painting! I cranked out a few more super cute cupcake characters. They are: Miss Diva Cupake, Clown Cupcake, Cupcake Boy (he's a superhero), The Baby Cupcake Triplets (I might name them later), Girly Girl Cupcake (I have to come up with a sweet girly name for her), & "Jealous Muffin".





Oh! And I actually got the courage up to order the button machine today!! Yahoo!

Mr. Owl & Other Stuff

Look who flew the coop! I was very excited to give Mr. Owl a new home today. A first-time Etsy buyer scooped him up & he'll land on a brown leather sofa, so I'm told. Can't you just picture him, so yummy, on on that sofa? I really will miss the little guy. It only inspires me to create more of his kind.


This photo is really fuzzy, but I had to show you what the girls had for dinner tonight. A Mickey Mouse pizza! Isn't that cute? No, I didn't make it. It's frozen.

I've been working on some more watercolor cupcake paintings today. Nothing to show, but my plastic protective sleeves & stay-flat envelope mailers should be here next week & then I'll be in business!

And guess what I'm getting? A button machine! You know, those cute little round pins that you can put just about anywhere? I'm so nervous to buy it because it's my first really big purchase. But, I figure it will be an investment 'cause eventually I'll be selling cute buttons in the shop! I was contemplating getting a machine big enough to make those pocket mirrors OR one that makes those small 1" buttons. The machine I want doesn't have an option for interchangeable sizes & I CANNOT fork over the dough for TWO machines. That's just craziness. So, I decided on the one that makes small buttons. Now if I could just click the "PAY NOW" button.....

Monsieur Cupcake & his friends...

Hi blog peeps! I've not been on here in a few days as I'm trying to get my watercolor paintings printed & ready to put in the shop. The process has been so confusing & I've not been finding a lot of help. It's frustrating to walk around, stumbling, in the dark. I really have no clue if I'm going about this in the correct way. I really hate tripping around like this. Hm.

I think the prints look great & the paper I am using is a nice 110 lb that has a soft shine to it. I'm super happy with how the color of the original translated to the print. This picture is the "Ballerina Princess Cupcake" The one on the left is the original. I had them printed onto 8 1/2" x 11" paper. Is that weird? If people wanted to insert it into an 8" x 10" frame they'd have to trim the print. (That's what seems weird to me.) The 8 1/2" x 11" size makes sense if they wanted to frame it larger though. What do you think?

They are really cute & I can't wait to frame one to use as an example in the shop. I'm ordering plastic sleeves & flat mailers today & as soon as they arrive the prints will be in the shop!

I printed some postcards but the white border is not equal on every side. Grr. I don't think I can sell them that way, but they'll be cool as freebies in the shop. I'm also thinking stickers & iron-ons & magnets &.......I know, I know, I'm getting ahead of myself.

Look what I got in the mail yesterday! I haven't even opened it from it's protective cello sleeve. It's from Tina . I was hopping around all the blogs that left comments during Letter Writing Week & found her site. She creates beautiful things & on occasion sends mail art. I commented on her blog about how lucky someone would be to receive mail from HER. I mean, it's totally amazing! So, she mailed me something! How cool huh!? (I promise I wasn't trying to sweet talk for some sweet mail.)


I'm off to paint more cupcakes!

HI!

This is my latest HUGE purchase. These glasses are gi-normous! And they are pink! I give you permission to laugh though.


I just finished a custom order for 2 mini tag banners. This is the Happy Birthday banner. I LOVE the yellow & turquoise-y blue color theme!

And look! Here's an action shot of me ready to mail some orders to the post office!

I have been SO super excited to share my new watercolors with you! I came up with an idea to create different cupcake characters. So, I have painted--so far--Miss Diva Cupcake, Monsieur Cupcake & The Cupcake Triplets. (Miss Diva needs some eyelashes, so I'll help her out later.) I just purchased 9 x 12 sheets of watercolor paper so that I can create prints to sell in the near future!

And speaking of DIVA, I have a really good friend, Charelle, who I have not been able to visit as much as I'd like. Busy schedules, kids, errands, this & that, etc. Today we got to hang out & we laughed so hard. We both needed some good giggles. We had a photo shoot & I think we took almost 50 self portraits. HAHA! Sometimes you need to take a break & grab a friend for some giggles.

'WhiMSy love' Does Watercolors!

I was up late last night & this image popped into my head. It's a concept in progress. Cup PLUS Cake EQUALS Cupcake. I thought it was cute & fun. I'll work on it though. Because I've already shown it to a couple people & they didn't get it. I love the look of it in watercolors. My favorite part is the moustache on the cup! I've had my paints buried in a crafty drawer & thought I'd resurrect them. I'm still learning, but am having so much fun!
And this is the first time I'm using photos from flickr. I guess "flickr law" says if you use your photo from their site it has to link back to your photos. Not sure how I like that, but we'll see.


I'm inspired by my love of cupcakes, I'm inspired by my friend Laura & her paintings, I'm inspired by my girls & their carefree creative attitudes, I'm inspired by a passion to try new things.