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!

Printable Valentines are Here!

 

We love Valentines and everyone loves to 

receive a cute little sentiment!

Grab your last-minute, inexpensive yet

totally lovely Valentines HERE.

It's an instant download

available only in season

that you can print yourself, for personal use

(no business use / resale) 

in whatever amount you need!

No waste, no leaving anyone out.

Whether for the classroom, 

the office,  your party 

(why not tag it up with Super Bowl this year?), 

these will add a lot of fun to your festivities.

While you're at it, grab a couple of super fun

printable Valentines games, too. 

You get three for the price of one: 

my super popular word search printable, 

the candy tic-tac-toe game board, and 

chalkboard tags for a Valentine S'more Loving mix. Bundled together and listed in my Etsy.

If you'd like pre-printed cards for

your special occasions, you

can find them at my Society 6 Shop. 

Check out these fun
MINUTE TO WIN IT games

for your party:

Valentine Conversation Hearts Stack
Suck it Up

Bottle Drop

Tweeze Me!

An InLinkz Link-up

Free November Calendar Page

Welcome November!

Around these parts this is the time

when we are thankful for full harvests,

friends and family.

To celebrate, I'm sharing a

free printable calendar page

filled with my hand-painted gourds and mums.

Just click on the photo above

for your instant free download.

Happy November!

For Fall clip art you can use in

decor, invitations and your own printables,

visit me HERE.

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

Big Love Cup Printable Challenge Link Party

It's here!

I want to see the printables

you have created using my

Big Love Cups

clip art!

This link party will stay open the

month of October.

Be sure to visit the links and vote

on your favorite during October.

The biggest vote-getter

will be featured here on the blog

and in social media!

The winner and runner up

will also receive a free clip art set

from my Etsy!

For the full rules,

visit This Post.

Now, show us your printable:

An InLinkz Link-up

Thank you for participating

in this printable challenge at

I Gotta Create!

Cheery and Bright

Soft and Sweet

Jazzy Retro

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 !

Pumpkins, Gourds and Squash clip art

Soon there will be a crispness in the air

and time to celebrate Autumn!

I loved painting these beautiful

pumpkins, gourds and squash

and then playing around with them digitally

to create some high quality,

handsome digital clip art for you!

They're on sale now

so grab them for INSTANT download!

Just $3 at my Etsy shoppe! 

Welcome Fall printable made from clip art by I Gotta Create!

See how you can pair it up

with other clip art packages I offer?

You can create beautiful, one of a kind

printables, cards, scrapbook pages,

and more!

For personal use only or contact me

if you'd like a commercial license.

Visit my Etsy and grab it for

INSTANT DOWNLOAD now!

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

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.

Hello October! Free Calendar Page Printable

I'm celebrating the month of October

by sharing a free

printable Calendar page with you!

Just click the photo above

to get the download.

I painted the flowers in gouache

and made the rest digitally.

You can see more of my art work

on my Art blog HERE.

Happy October!

AI Share Your Vector Art Party!

Welcome to this VERY SPECIAL
link party!

I'm so excited about this

party because it focuses on your 
vector art images!

If you haven't seen my latest tutorial
about using Live Paint and the paint bucket tool
in Adobe Illustrator, check it out
on my Art Blog HERE.

Then come back and 

share what you've created in 

THIS link party below.

Please watermark your images.

Share only low resolution photos.

Make sure to insert the link to your blog or portfolio so people can find you.

We'll keep the party open for a couple of weeks:

An InLinkz Link-up

Keep creating, loves!

Thank you for posting the party button on your blog to spread the word:

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!

Our First Eggs! Free Kitchen Printable, Too!

We got eggs!

Eggs!

We got our first fresh organic eggs!

and they are Eggcellent!

A lot has been happening

behind the scenes in the past

17 weeks here at 

I Gotta Create!

We got our first ever baby chicks,

{four of them: Buff, Red, Gertrude and Lacy}

built a chicken coop from a kit,

expanded it,

learned all about chicks and chickens,

transferred our babies from the shower

to the garage,

to the yard,

and now....

taa-daah!  Eggs!

I'm so proud of the girls!

To celebrate, I'm sharing

a free 8x10 Eggcellent kitchen printable 

with you in the link below!

Name That Oscar Host! answer key for the party game

We're getting ready to roll out

the red carpet here.

For your Academy Awards watch party,

you'll want the 

answer key to this fun game:

Name That Oscar Host!

Twenty celebrities have hosted

the Academy Awards more than once.

The object of the game is to

identify those 20 hosts.

There's an extra host on the page,

so you will need to identify who hosted only once.

But wait before peeking at these answers!!
You can get the original game {here}.

I'm providing the answer key in this post

so that you have the opportunity

to make your guesses without peeking!

You might be interested in more watch party fun

with these ideas:

An InLinkz Link-up

OK,

if you are ready for the answers,

just mosey over to my Etsy

during Oscar season for the instant download:

Have a great time watching the Oscars!

Follow me on Pinterest for more ideas:

Name That Host! Oscar Party Game Printable

It's Academy Award season

and this year, let's hear it for the hosts!

Let's face it,

a great host at the Oscars

makes watching worthwhile.

Great food and beverages help, too,

but more on that later...

There have been some amazing

hosts over the years.

Twenty of them have been asked

to host more than once.

Soooo.... that inspired me to

develop a game for 

this season's Oscar Party!

It's called:

Name That Host: Oscar Party Game

and I've developed a printable for you!

Valentine Word Search Party Game

We love Valentines and everyone loves a 

word search puzzle!

Turn it in to a super fun challenge by making it a

Minute to Win It Game for your Valentine Party.

This 6th game in the series 
is a simple, FUN 
way to exercise your brain!

I have the word search printable for download 
in two sizes for you now listed in my Etsy.

Gimme S'more Lovin' Printable Valentine Tags

I can't resist starting off the year

sharing a goodie with you for one 

of the holidays for which 

I most love to craft.

Valentines Day!

So... I made you some sweet

Gimme S'more Lovin' Valentine 

chalkboard printable gift tags! 

You get 12 of these cuties to a page. 

Just look at that stitching around the edges 

of the chalkboard!

The gift tags are perfect

for teacher appreciation, classroom or office.

There are all kinds of s'more recipes

out there you can use these tags with!

Check out my pinterest board for s'more ideas

after you download your tags from the link below.

Gratitude List Printable

I have a free gift for you!

In November I like to take time here on the blog

to officially celebrate

the "Season of Gratitude,"

as I like to think of it.

Often there is a rush straight to Christmas and other winter holidays.

Pause with me to savor this moment

and give it its due. 

To help with that, at the end of this post

I have a free 

Gratitude List printable