Back to School Printable for a Honey of a Year!

 Are you ready to get your school on?

Make it festive with these super cute printables

and celebrate a sweet year with

teachers

classmates

and to dress up your child's study area.

These are super inexpensive at my etsy shop

only in season. You can print them and give them as

back-to-school and teacher appreciation gifts.

You get 3 variations in one 

instant download PDF file.

Have a Honey of a School Year!

Everyone deserves it!

Wild About You Notebook & Cards

Wild about nature? 

Want to let your Valentine or someone know you're wild about them?

Treat yourself to a lush notebook and stationery.  

My gouache painting is digitized and carefully placed to ensure 

you'll love writing in this journal. 

While you're at it, delight someone 

with a personally penned note on a work of art.  

You can get them HERE.  

A great gift to celebrate Earth Day, too. 

Thank you for visiting!

Mothers Day Gifts for the Sewist, Crafter & Maker

It's nearly that time of year to celebrate

all the women in our lives!

Make your crafter, sewist, or maker

happy with this fun mug

featuring a vintage Singer sewing machine

and lots of notions that were

hand painted in gouache.

Or maybe you prefer something 

portable to carry

all those supplies.

This backpack is just the ticket!

Either way, you'll be supporting her creativity

and mine with these fun products

featuring my original art.

Visit my Society 6 shop today

for more gift ideas!

Free October Calendar Page!

Hello October!

To celebrate this Spooktacular month

I'm sharing a free printable

calendar page featuring

my hand-painted mega bat!

Just click the photo above to

get your instant download.

Also, did you get my black cat

social media buttons for your blog?

Grab those HERE.

Happy October!

Get great clip art for the Fall season HERE

Rustic Pears and Lettering Clip Art

Rustic Pear clip art by I Gotta Create!

Another beautiful collection

of clip art for you to use any time of year!

The Rustic Pears clip art collection 

is based on my photography of my
Pear Tart and Pear Butter recipes,
which you can grab HERE.

These little pieces of art are 
warm and wonderful for creating 
cards, kitchen decor,

printables,

recipe and menu items,

scrapbooking and so much more!

Rustic Pear clip art by I Gotta Create!

Grab the clip art HERE !

The Big Cup Printable Challenge rules!

Put YOUR creativity

and design skills to work with the 

Big Cups Challenge!

You probably know that when you sign up for my newsletter, you receive a special

free printable from me.

Now I want to see what YOU can create

with the adorable 

Heart Mug and Heart Teabag clipart!

Here are the rules:

Join the Big Cup Printable Challenge!
     Design your own printable using my clip art Heart Mug and clip art Heart Teabags. Put your unique style and spin on it --the sky is the limit! You can use the words "Big Cups" in your theme or change it up and chose any quote that suits you. Plus, use whichever clip art color scheme appeals to you (3 to chose from)!

You must include somewhere on your design in small, legible print: "Clip art mugs and teabags by I Gotta Create!" Also, be sure to sign your artwork, or put your logo or brand on the printable you create.

Share YOUR printable at the Big Cups Link Party!
     Post your work on your own website or instagram. (I'd sure appreciate a link to my website, too.) Tell your friends and followers about the challenge and your approach to it.

Then get ready to share your printable at the Big Cups link party that will start September 6th. A link party enables people to see your work and come visit you! You will meet other creatives and be able to visit them, too.

Prizes:  Get featured at I Gotta Create! 
     The person with the most 'votes' or clicks to their website from the Big Cups Link Party will receive an extensive feature on my blog. 30,000+ people visit I Gotta Create on a slow month, and more than quadruple that on busy months. I will also give you a shout-out on my other social media outlets like Instagram, Facebook and Twitter!

More Prizes:  Get free clip art! 
     The person with the most 'votes' or clicks and the runner up will receive a free clip art set from my Etsy shop.

Special Subscriber Discount. 
     Since you must use my Heart Mug and Heart Teabag clip art in your design, you can get one whole set for just $1 at my Etsy to make joining the challenge easy and affordable. 

How to get the discount:  All my newsletter subscribers will receive the discount coupon code in an email from me in July, so check your email! I will not be able to respond individually to requests for the discount code. Only subscribers to I Gotta Create! are eligible for the discount.

If you're signing up as a new subscriber, be sure to open your initial email from me to trigger your discount code email the next day.

Additional Agreements. Since you will be using my clip art, you may not sell or use the design to create products. All my Etsy policies apply. You may give away your printable as long as you maintain the small, legible print on your design crediting the clip art to me.

Big Cups Party. The party will stay open the month of October and winners will be announced and featured in November, a higher-traffic month!

Remember, you have a range of color options for your printable-creating pleasure by using one of these three sets:

Cheery and Bright

Soft and Sweet

Jazzy Retro

I'm so excited to see what you create
from the 

Big Cup Printable Challenge 

here at I Gotta Create!

December Calendar Page Printable

Hello December!

Click image for your free calendar page!

It's my last free Calendar Page offering

for 2016!

Featuring a jolly St. Nicholas

to make all your days in December

a little more merry and bright.

Click the photo above to 

get your free printable calendar page.

And check out these holiday crafts

while you're here:

An InLinkz Link-up

It's Hug A Chicken Day!

No kidding, it is Hug A Chicken Day!

If you have backyard chickens,

you know how lovable they are.

They are great pets and they provide us with eggs!

So I'm celebrating with this quick little illustration.
You can see more of my art {here}. 

Here's a look at our girls plus a breakfast recipe and free printable...

Free Printable November Calendar Page

Hello, November!

It is a time of harvest and thanksgiving

in these parts.

To celebrate, I'm sharing this

free printable calendar page for the

month of November.

It features my hand-painting in gouache

of mums, squash and gourds.

Turn your Sketches into Vector Art

Hello, creatives!

How many of you dabble in

Adobe Illustrator?

It is a program that allows you to

create vector-based art.

This means it can be resized

from small to giant

without losing any quality.

Those of you who make printables

might be interested in using "AI,"
if you don't already.

Check out the tutorial

I posted HERE on my art blog

for how to turn your

drawings into vector art!

Then get ready, because I will be hosting a
SPECIAL link party just for
your AI Vector Art projects.

Keep creating, loves!

If you like this image,
check out my Etsy shop!

Global Talent Search Recognition!

Hello all my dear maker friends!

Just wanted to share some

news with you...

My Art is available for Licensing

My work received honorable mention

in the Global Talent Search

by a top art agency!

Nearly 1,000 artists submitted work

and 83 were recognized in some fashion.

I'm so thrilled to be among them.

You can read more about it on my

artist website here:

Wildly Original #203 link party

Ha-ha! Hello Friends!

Children's book character giving the raspberries - painted by me!

Welcome to this week's party.
I thought I'd just take a minute to share
what I'm up to!

I'm having fun painting and drawing these days. You can find the details on my art blog HERE.

So now... on with the party!

Honey Bear Collection

My love of tea

inspired me to create this

"Honey Collection" clip art!

It's so darned cute.

And it's interactive -- 

meaning you can dress up your

two styles of honey bears

and the honey pourer

with the other clipart provided.

There's a bee of varying sizes,

a 3 types of honey wands, two types of spoons, 

a heart with the word 'honey' and 

honeycombs.

And I threw a couple of backgrounds 

to make it easy to make cards.

It'd be so sweet for Mother's Day 

or Father's Day coming up!

Also perfect for baby showers, a 

spring or summer party,

Valentine's Day, engagement, anniversary, birthdays, thank you cards... 

basically for anyone and anything you're sweet on!

You can get it here

on my etsy!

Quick Sketches of my Favorite Oscar Dresses

This year I did something a little different

while watching the Academy Awards.

I did quick sketches of 

my three favorite dresses...

of course while munching on snacks

and playing some Oscar Games
(see the links below).

These were just quick studies - not meant to be perfect by any means. 

I enjoyed whipping them out!

I was inspired by this 
infographic of Oscar Dresses.

And  guess, what?

I'm on Instagram now and invite you

to follow me there

where I'm undertaking some new creative 

directions and posting my artwork.

What were your favorite moments of the evening?

An InLinkz Link-up