☆ Easter Tags for the Kids [+ a free download]

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 It has been a bit of a strange week here, it's the first week of the school holidays, so Bean has been home. She + Bug are slowly readjusting to being with each other again all day.

The dominance battle is interesting to watch + what I expected to happen, (Bean becoming the top dog again), hasn't happened. And although there are moments where I just want to tear my hear out, and have to separate them, they are building a beautiful partnership, which is just lovely to watch.

So part of this weeks activities, apart from spending awesome time with visiting family, is obviously Easter Craft + Arts. There are chickens to make, colouring competitions to complete, and Bean asked me to draw a very special Easter drawing for them to colour.

But I decided I wanted to make some Easter tags for them to give to their great grandparents, cousins + friends.

As I was printing it out on water colour paper, I started thinking (when I say this to Mac, you can see him visibly bracing himself!)

But I thought that I would also share with you the template + you or your kids can decorate your own Easter Tags to share with your friends + family.

Click on the image below + it will take you to the pdf to download, put in some card stock/ or paper in the printer + just press print. Et voilà - that is it!

These are my versions decorated with water colour. The ink smudged a bit, because I didn't wait + I loaded crap loads of water onto the page, but I really love how the water colour left a little water marks on the page. I made them part of my tags.

 

 

So these are for my kids, with their little Easter presents. 

And I will be sharing the girls tags on Facebook + Instagram over the weekend, so make sure you pop over to see their beautiful artful tags!!

I would love to know if you download them + decorate them. Feel free to email me your decorated tags + I would love to share them.

 Happy Easter Everyone.

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☆ Trio of Calendar Girls [Friday Art]

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Each month in my Studio Snippets Love Letter, I offer my readers a downloadable desktop calendar, which features some of my art.

So this week, I was looking for a suitable image for March, and nothing caught my imagination. 

I was all Goldilocks + the Three Bears! It was too big or too small or not the right colour or not the right feel...

And so me being me, I decided to paint some thing especially for the calendar + as usual it was last minute. 

So it was something I had to do, a little bit of a chore, (but not really because painting + creating is never a chore) BUT what I loved was how it morphed into something I had heaps of fun with.

I started with a sketch, and dumped heaps of water on the page and allowed the water colours to guide me. I ended up with so much paint on their faces, I had to use some gesso to cover it up.  And then I just doodled. 

You can see how where the water colours settled ended up being a guide for their hair + clothes/ tail. I think my fav is the red head. I love her dress and how her hair just worked!

And it has been such a long time since I have just played. With so much stuff I have been sorting through lately, I realised how much I missed this + how much I need to incorporate play in my creative schedule.

So how long has it been since you've played? Maybe it's time to let go a little. I would love to hear your stories be free to share below.

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☆ do YOU know how awesome you are? [downloadable art]

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If you had an angel of gratitude, what would she tell you right now?

A friend + I were talking one day about how hard it was being a mama, and how sometimes, as much as we loved being at home with the kids, working away from home was very appealing.

And when we talked about it some more, we decided it wasn't because we had a burning desire to go back to work.

It was because, at work, you have constant feed back - you know if you are doing a good job, you know if you are doing a crappy job, you know if something you did today was awesome because there are people at work who would tell you.

Sometimes you just need feed back, good or bad, as loving human beings we need positive messages for our self growth.

And when you work from home, for your self, are a full time carer, or are a mama raising children, you don't necessarily know if you are doing a good job. 

And so, this is for you.

Maybe you are having a really tough time at the moment, and just need to remind yourself you are awesome + it will be ok.

Maybe you need to remember why a particular goal was so important to you, like loosing weight, or creating every day.

And so, this is for you.

Some times you need your very own angel to give you positive messages of support + loving.

I have designed this Gratitude Angel so that you can write your own messages of support, of love, of bravery and hang her up in a place that will remind you daily of your awesomeness.

There are two ways you can grab your very own copy of the GRATITUDE ANGEL.

*You can pop over to my etsy shop - LilliBean Designs and you can download it immediately for approximately the price of a medium latte ($3.50)

* Or you can sign up for my monthly news + specials email.

Once you sign up, I will email you a pdf file (with in 24 hours of sign up).

So here she is your very own gratitude angel, yours for the taking + yours to remind you that you are awesome, amazing + beautiful!


If you had an angel of gratitude, what would she tell you right now? I would love to hear what she would say. (And if you have used your gratitude angel? I would love to see how.)

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