Styling...

I think we all love a beautiful gift, even after the holidays are over there are still birthdays, anniversaries and other fun holidays to share something unique with the ones we love.  its a passion of mine, after having part-time customer service gigs as a young adult, I still love to create a piece of artwork when I wrap a gift. Some of my favorite stylist make complete art out of simple packaging and paint.  I could do it all day.  Give me paper and paint and something to wrap and its a fun time for me.  

I wanted to share a few today, this was a fun styling project I gave myself. beautifully faded and layered gifts. 

I had fun painting lots of foam board for my backgrounds.  They don't always come out the way I want but when they do I really love them.  When painting backgrounds just lay on the paints and smudge around until you get the effect you want or use other materials like the ends of paint brushes, old gift cards and napkins.  You can get some of the most beautiful effects from simple things. 

Thanks for stopping in today and I hope to continue to share and add little tidbits from time to time on paper things and styling. 

Take care...

Give me simple things...

Give me simple things.  A plain box, white cardstock and a box of paints and I will try to make something of it.  Remix it somehow.  I find joy in these things, in things that don't seem to fit together when you first lay your eyes on them.  I find joy in things that are not quite the way they should be.  Colors that don't seem to mix, or an uncomfortable contrast in colors.  Color has always been interesting to me to explore. Mixing colors is a fun place I like to find myself doing often and I feel I haven't quite stretched myself enough.  Lately I've just been letting myself play and mix up my watercolors in new ways.

In my effort to bring fun and interesting content to my new place I’m sharing some fun gift boxes that will be available in my shop soon.  I wanted to create a space where I could separate my interest a bit, share fun random artsy post as well as new things I’ve been working on.  It’s all about the journey and mine is sort of all over the place but my new little spot might keep things in balance in some way.

I do hope you'll stop by my little spot from time to time!  

Thanks for stopping by! 

Something new...

I'm so excited to finally share the launch of my new blog Freshcut Studio! I've been working behind the scenes trying to tweak as much as I can being this was a solo venture of mine.  It's all so overwhelming and I had to make an attempt at rolling all of my randomness into one little cohesive spot!

When thinking about my vision for this little space of mine I think of an inviting space filled with lovely inspiration, color and randomness.  Just because sometimes that’s what gets me started creatively, total randomness.  I can see a rug and the colors and shapes of it and get a little creative spark from that one image.  Or see a fun floral bouquet and just the juxtaposition of colors will spark some interest!  I have always loved art and found certain calm from being around anything art related.  Museums are my jam!  I could wander for days in them.  I think nature is profound and dynamic so the dance between the two is kind of a forever thing for me.  There might be some randomness from my travels spread around from time to time as well. And there may be some tweaking going on from time to time as I add more and more over from my last blog into my galleries here.  

In other words I like to think of my page as a visual journey that I carry you all on. I hope to evolve, learn, and grow. I can't say for sure in which direction I will go, paths for creatives are rarely straight, but I will promise it will be colorful and bright!

Stay tuned...