I haven’t vlogged for some time – so let’s do it on this last day of June! I’ve got a call for cards to put out there – as well as a little about World Watercolor Month!
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Watch the video below or click HERE to watch in HD on YouTube.
World Watercolor Month: July 2021
Every year I’m an ambassador for WWCM – so I hope you’ll join in! The one place I’ll be 100% full-on watercolor is THIS fine art instagram account – but don’t worry it’s not all advanced fine art, lots for newbies to learn! Then my YT, regular IG, and blog will be mixed – but any projects that aren’t watercolor will have a water element in them.
- Sale on classes! Whatever the discount is will be the amount I’ll donate to the WWCM charity,
- World Watercolor Month page with optional prompts
- Purchase my pouch or any from the swag shop to help fundraise for the charity International Child Art Foundation!
- I’ve listed out more detall on my main hub – WWCM page!
Send me a card: Be My Inspiration!
The call for cards in March was so successful with over 100 birthday cards— let’s do this again before the holiday cardmaking season gets underway!
What you’ll do:
- Make a card front that might be your holiday card this year. (Only one per person will be shown.)
- All holidays are accepted! ALL! Just because I used the word Christmas in the video doesn’t mean it’s only Christmas cards.
- It doesn’t have to be perfect, or have the perfect stamp on it! Don’t have a bear with a santa hat? Put a triangle sticky note where the hat would be, and I’ll guarantee there’ll be a bear with a hat in one of the new releases!
- Fill out the attached form with as much info as you have, if you don’t know the answer that’s okay!
- Mail it to my PO Box, with arrival by August 10. (I suggest mailing by minimum July 31, it took a month for a lot of the March cards to arrive.)
What I’ll do:
- Sort the cards by whatever themes, styles, ideas are generated.
- Create a video and show each card and talk about them.
- Use some of the cards as starting points for my holiday videos in September and October!
- If your card is chosen as inspiration, I’ll email you a sneak peek at the card as soon as I get it done! I’ll also credit you, and link to your social media if you provide it!
About that bathroom…
I bet it was a little surprise to see me vlogging from there! But it’s honestly the prettiest room in my house. Since I’ve now lived here for 20 years it’s TIME to just get busy decorating for real! The guest bathroom was first, and makes me SO HAPPY.
I intended a chair rail – but since I have no power saw to do it nicely, I realized I had ART skills to deploy instead – so I mixed various blues out of the white and blue paint and made my own flower border! The rest of the room was 100% done by just little old me, too – I even had to change out the pipe that joins the sink to the wall, and deal with the bathtub drain (that’s been the dogbath bathroom! EEEK!). I cut carpet to put in, painted the cabinet, changed out an icky mirror for a nice one – it’s my favorite room now!
In fact its SO much a fave I’ve been doing IGTV chats weekly from there. Mostly talking about the art biz and how to grow our accounts on that site, so if you’re into that kind of thing, check out the previous episodes. You’ll recognize the bathroom in the thumbnails.
Your bathroom looks great!!!
Loved watching your vlog, I also love your gorgeous bathroom. You can call it your chatbathroom LOL.
Great idea, sending the cards, have to think about it. I’m way behind a lot of things because of health issues but perhaps when everything goes well I can make something to send to you.
Thank you so much for your great vlog, stay safe and have a wonderful day.
Yay, Christmas! I love thinking about Christmas and winter at this time of year – cools me off… mentally, at least. This is a great challenge and I will do my best. Can’t wait to see everyone else’s card fronts!