Having so much fun with more Vintage inspired Halloween Illustrations.....

I am having a blast with my whole 2011 Halloween Vintage Inspired Collection....here you can see my sketch to colour to product and then some examples of stuff I have created with these cute little art circles...what fun!!! I can't believe that this is the last week before school starts!!! I have been enjoying all of these last days with our son Cole....and we are enjoying arts and crafts and summer time fun....

I will have full days of work once he heads back to school....so I am enjoying some last days off myself....

Happy Creating Everyone!!!

Hugs
Diana


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My famous potatoe bacon white truffle carmelized onion, garlic and thyme pizza....yummy!!!!

I have some new fun art to share with you all but created this art in the kitchen lastnight so I thought I would post this today. So below you will see a little montage of my steps....

It was so good...I made homemade dough with truffle oil and then topped it and baked this yummy goodness up!!! it was perfection!!!

Happy Creating Everyone....now back to the Studio to get to work!!!

note - cooked potatoes....and cooked onions and cooked bacon.....

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Sunday Sketches....coffee and cake....yummy

I love sleeping in on Sundays and I love waking up to some fresh brewed coffee....That scent just makes me feel all cozy and warm and is perfect for relaxing on a Sunday with my sketchbook in hand...

I was inspired this morning to create this quick Sunday Sketch for you all...some fresh coffee and I even added a slice of cake for you all to virtually enjoy! These will be inspirations for some new surface designs I have in mind this week....

Happy Sunday and Happy Creating Everyone!!!!

Hugs
Diana

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Sweet Saturdays - Week 22

Hi Everyone!!! and welcome to week # 022 of Sweet Saturdays.....Sweet Saturdays is all about blogging about something sweet in your lives...it could be art, illustrations, food or a sweet photo....or a sweet find in your favorite shop...so create your blog post and pop back and share your link with all of us....

So welcome and we look forward to seeing your posts.....
Happy Sweet Saturday!!!!

This week for my Sweet Saturday I am sharing this fun piece inspired by a painting I saw in a shop...they had a little Pug Aviator and I thought it was the sweetest looking thing ever...

Happy Creating Everyone!!!!!

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Paint Party Friday .....addicted to Vintage Halloween these days....

Hi Everyone.....great to be back to PPF this week...

As a full time Illustrator in the field I am like all the shops all around town putting out all of their Holiday Stuff way ahead of schedule....so lately I have been having so many Vintage Halloween inspirations...so this week I have a little vintage fan art piece to share for PPF......this piece is an ink and watercolour piece and is my version of an old Vintage Halloween Card....I love collecting vintage stuff and then using it as inspiration.....

What are you working on these days?

Happy Creating Everyone!!!!

Hugs
Diana

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Halloween already....what?

I am staying ahead of the wave this year and worked on some fun Halloween crafts while we were away on vacation.....these are my cute little vintage Halloween  ornaments....I took a free craft class on creating these and now I can't stop having fun with them!!!!


They are super easy and I used some cute vintage pieces to create these witches.....

I think this is a perfect rainy day craft for kids of any age!!! I am going to sell these in my Etsy Shop too....

Happy Creating Everyone!!!

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Having fun with some Baking Surface designs.....what is your favorite background?

As many of you know I am in love with cooking and when I do watch any TV it is food network....so today I thought I would show you some of my latest surface designs as inspired by my love for baking sweet things.....These new pieces were created by my relaxed spiral sketches.....I can see these on all sorts of surfaces including some fun fabric that can be used for some cool aprons!!!

I have a whole new line coming out with these spiral designs....they are so much fun to work on.......

What is your favorite background colour? and do you bake? cook?  or do you use your oven like Carrie Bradshaw did in SATC....as storage for her sweaters....lol

Wishing you a fun and creative day!!!

Hugs
Diana

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I am un-officially back from Vacation!!!....missed you all

Hi Everyone...I think this was the first time I totally disconnected from the world...if you call it that with my trusty Blackberry.....lol...I had so much fun...I even closed up all of my on-line shops....it was total relaxation....with some creative fun ...The sites and scenes were amazing....we enjoyed great times with family and friends! I will be taking the rest of the month off....but you know an artist really never stops creating so I will be focusing on some fun projects .....

I am so thrilled to report that my work with HELP International is complete. I worked on an important educational Picture Book for their team in Andhra Pradesh. I always feel blessed to create work for causes that impact thousands of people so I was thrilled they contacted me for this project.

So great to be back on-line and I can't wait to visit you all and see what you have been up to. I have a bunch of fun work to share with you all this week...so I will be posting live everyday!!!!

I also want to thank you for popping by while I was away....always nice to hear from you...

Hugs
Diana

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Sweet Saturdays - Week 21

Hi Everyone!!! and welcome to week # 021 of Sweet Saturdays.....Sweet Saturdays is all about blogging about something sweet in your lives...it could be art, illustrations, food or a sweet photo....or a sweet find in your favorite shop...so create your blog post and pop back and share your link with all of us....

So welcome and we look forward to seeing your posts.....
Happy Sweet Saturday!!!!


I am still on vacation....so I will have a lot of sweetness to share with you all....

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100 Illustrations 2011 Annual ....an update

As many of your know....our 100 Illustrations 2011 Annual is available at Barnes and Noble....but if you are an Amazon Shopper you can sign up to be notified when this item becomes available ......this is a perfect book filled with 100 Illustrations....that are amazing ...all in different styles....this is a great book for anyone....we are so proud of it.....

get your copy now!!!

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Our book is at Barnes and Noble.......

Oh how exciting to see our book available at all of the major bookstores! You can check out our  
100 Illustrations 2011 Annual over at Barnes and Noble! So exciting!!!

We are also getting more submissions in for our next book titled....
100 Illustrations - My Favorite Food

I can't wait till we reach 100 Illustrators....and fill this book with all kinds of fun treats....so please read all about it here and don't forget to get your work in!!! Once we have 100 Illustrators with 100 Favorite Food Illustrations we will have our book ready for publication!!! and you will have your work in Print!!! Oh and help get the word out....Do a blog post for us!!!

We will feature some more fun photos from our current Annual and also start sharing more about the new project...so follow our blog and Happy Creating!!!!

P.S. We will also update you as more book stores have our book in!!!

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Sweet Saturdays - Week 20

Hi Everyone!!! and welcome to week # 020 of Sweet Saturdays.....Sweet Saturdays is all about blogging about something sweet in your lives...it could be art, illustrations, food or a sweet photo....or a sweet find in your favorite shop...so create your blog post and pop back and share your link with all of us....

So welcome and we look forward to seeing your posts.....
Happy Sweet Saturday!!!!

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Paint Party Friday - Week 22

Hi Everyone....what a week! I have so much going on these days that I have been busy busy busy....I took a little break from it all to create this piece for Paint Party Friday this week....the title of this piece is
"The Look" .....

I will be offline for a while...so I have scheduled some automatic posts this week....

Hope you have a wonderful Friday and a super weekend....and enjoy all these last weeks before the summer ends!!!

Happy Creating Everyone....

Hugs
Diana

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Thursday Cupcake Topper Hollywood Glam download and a lady bug Birthday....what fun!!

Every Thursday I create fun cupcake topper art that you can use for your personal parties for free........so if you have any special requests....send them my way....just leave a comment or send me an e-mail! So this week I went straight to some Hollywood Glam.....


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This has been one busy week.....but I can never turn away any of my amazing clients...so I had to share a little project I worked on for this cute lady bug Birthday Party...I love working on custom cupcake toppers!

Happy Creating Everyone!!!!

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GIVEAWAY time..... Some fun cupcake stickers.....

I took a break from two picture books I am working on in my Studio to create some super huge handmade cupcake stickers....these were so much fun to create....but back to work today and all week...one book has to be completed this week....and I am going into solitude to finish the next one by the end of the month...so wish me luck!!!

In the mean time if you want to get a set of these leave a comment...I feel like a little giveaway!!!

All comments here on my blog post will be entered....

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Sunday Sketches....how about some tattoo art

I have to say that I am loving working on some custom tattoos...
This one was created for Leanne...and it is a memorial to her Dad who passed away...he used to always bring her Mom yellow roses....and she loves butterflies and transformation so I added in this fluttery friend....

I thought this sketch would be perfect as my Sunday Sketch this week!!!

Happy Creating Everyone...and if you want a custom tattoo...send me an e-mail!!!

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Sweet Saturdays - Week 19

Hi Everyone!!! and welcome to week # 019 of Sweet Saturdays.....Sweet Saturdays is all about blogging about something sweet in your lives...it could be art, illustrations, food or a sweet photo....or a sweet find in your favorite shop...so create your blog post and pop back and share your link with all of us....

So welcome and we look forward to seeing your posts.....
Happy Sweet Saturday!!!!



This week for my Sweet Saturday...I am sharing some photos from our vegetable garden....there is nothing "sweeter" than home grown yummy treats!!!

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