A Mini Inspirational Hop, a Winner, Some Fellow Artists, and a Freebie

I am constantly amazed and how much fun I have doing this “job”. Even though it feels like it never ends—emails come in at all hours of the day and night; I always have something new to draw; changes to make in the shop; or a new and better idea pops up. :)—I love being an artist. 🙂

However, as much as I love drawing and doodling, one of the best side perks of running my own little art kingdom (in which I fully intend to stay Queen of Everything :D) is the people I get to “meet.” Some I have never seen or actually spoken to, but they are my friends nonetheless. I have met some amazing artists and crafters and just love their attitudes and creativity.

So today, I thought I would share some of those friends…spread the love and make my own little blog hop of inspiration. LOL Take a peek at some of those people who inspire me and make creating art so much more meaningful:

This is a link to the sweet artists who created samples of cards for my shop. I haven’t had a chance to add many samples to the shop yet. I came up with a change to the shop inspired by trying to efficiently add more samples, so I am working on adding samples slowly. 🙂
Thanks so much for sharing those samples though. If you submitted cards for samples, as promised, I picked a random winner from these entries:

I have had the recent pleasure of getting to know Zoe, the artist and owner from Make It Crafty. This is a card that Mary made by combining Zoe’s background with my digi characters.

Pretty good match, huh? And the card is simply stunning! Zoe has tons of other backgrounds and amazing images and I just thought I would enable you—go take a peek at her shop. 🙂

I put out a recent call for birthday cards for my old college buddy and here are 2 new photos that were emailed to me. 🙂 Thanks to everyone who has offered to help out with my project. 🙂 I haven’t seen all the projects, but I can’t wait to see them all together. 🙂 I did contact everyone on my list, but a few email addys had permanent flaws or didn’t go through. If you signed up but didn’t hear from me, reconfirm your addy for me in the next few days and I will try again.

We have a great challenge this week….Shake It Up with a shaker card. Did you see the AMAZING samples the DT made??…omg…amazing!

And now we have an adorable freebie drawn by Tiddly Inker Tracy’s hubby…a talented artist and woodcrafter. 🙂 She wanted to share it with you all, so download it by clicking on the picture. Be sure to stop by and says thanks to Tracy. 🙂