Ready for a Prize...

Time to end September with some fun!

I entered the number of posts we had into a random number generator, and the winner is Raena!

raena said...

"These are adorable! I find that I don't miss the nose and mouth on these. If it were more important to show an emotion, then I would say they were necessary, but these are great the way they are!"

Send me your email at rhodadesignstudio {@} gmail {dot} com. Let me know which one you like the best and I will send you the download link.

Thank you everyone for posting a comment and taking a look at my new characters. I'm hoping to make a few more this weekend :)

It's Friday! And I'm so happy. I've already managed to go to Yoga class and do a spruce up/check in at a place I take care of. It's an older farm house, and in the middle of pastures. Unfortunately, it means it collects flies. One of the main things we have to do there is "suck flies" with the dust buster. Would it be cliche so say that after the insect guy sprayed this year, the flies are dropping, like flies?

Yuck! Industrial fly sucker today! I'll be glad when it gets colder and they slow down.

Time for a weekend of creativity!

Happy Friday,

Rhoda

Smile in Bloom

Wednesday? Or Monday?

It really felt like a Monday. One of those days where you should just go back to bed, so you can wake up and give it another try.

I pushed through. But it felt like walking through waist deep snow, up hill, both ways!

We stopped at the grocery store to buy something for dinner, and this is what hubby brought out to brighten the day.

The snow is melting...I think the peanut M&M's helped just as much.

Last night, Kyla and I sat at the table and colored before I had to go back to school to help the Freshman with the concessions stand. I chose to start with Willow and the Fawn.

The shadow on the bottom is a little darker in the pic than in real life, part of the camera app.

Night :)

Rhoda

P.S. Be sure and comment on this post for a chance to win your favorite digital stamp.

Pin It, Like It, Admire It

There are just so many ways to keep track of the things you love. I think my favorite is Pinterest.

Have you tried this yet? You can organize by a theme, and it's like pinning sticky notes to a board. You choose where they go.
Color.
Quotes.
Decor.
Art Journals.
Scrapbook pages.
You name it, you can pin it. I love to just log in and drool. The best part...you follow people who have pinned things that are similar to what you love, and then you see all the treasures that they pin too. They can follow you. All the goodness just gets spread around!

Here's a snapshot of the one that I set up for Type. Letters, Fonts, all sorts of print goodness. Love it :)

Do you "Pin It"? What sort of eye candy do you add to yours?

Rhoda

I'm In Love...

Seriously. Head over heels...

I have always loved to draw. Animals. Flowers. Doodles.

But people. They always scared me. I would avoid drawing anything that involved a person.

I've tried a few sketches. I've done some fairies with charcoal. Usually, I procrastinate and then walk away from an idea if it involves a person.

My dream was to take all the art classes I could in college. Being practical, and the rude awakening of my  real life changed that pretty quick.
Life brought me back around to art though, by opening up an Art position at our school, and there was no one else qualified to teach it.

I nabbed it.

To teach my students, I have to keep teaching myself. I find lessons. I watch videos (LOVE UTube!).

And I practice.

Illustration or coloring for a major cartoon company have always been my dream. A little difficult without experience and without the courage to draw people. I put on my big girl pants and gave it a try. I am back to practicing. And now I am in love with them.

Sure. I love the characters. I love making patterns and paper. But these little people sketches are consuming me! I'm dreaming them. I'm making lists about them. And I can't stop drawing them. Heaven help me when I start to color them!!

Here are just a few of today's creations, you can visit my shop to see the others. I'm populating a village here!

Little Sophie in her Owl Hat

Kyla and her Lemonade Stand

Hayden and his bike.

There are a handful of other new ones. And there will be more to come. I only made a few on my list today! Not to mention, the coloring hasn't started yet. :)

Hope you enjoy them. They have so much potential for stories, cards, and colors. I need to call my sister! I have ideas for her too!! :)

Happy Monday,

Rhoda

P.S. Don't forget about the giveaway post, you can also list any of these as your favorite and a chance to win!!

Want to Color?

Happy Sunday!

I had fun sketching and creating this weekend. Some of my sketching happened a little to close to bed time. After we went to bed, the ideas kept swirling.

I couldn't fall asleep.

There were to many sketches and ideas running around in my brain.

And then I braided my hair all night. Over and over. Because of one little sketch. When I popped awake this morning, the ideas started swirling again! I've gotten a few of them out of my system.

There are 3 others in my shop as well. Shall we have some fun? The coloring is the best part. I haven't decided which one I want to start with yet.

Which one do you want to color? Look through the digital stamps in my shop, and come back here and post a link to your favorite. Tell us what you will make out of your colored piece. I'll pick a random winner from the posts on Friday, and send the winner their choice. We can finish September with some coloring fun!

I'm off to decide which one I will color first...

Have a great week,
Rhoda

P.S. While you are looking at all the fun digi kids, tell me, which do you like more: a full face, or just eyes? Or do you like having the option of both?

Autumn Harvest

Creative, at last.

After a marathon run into the big city for groceries and some girl time with my daughter, I finally got to be creative.
Don't get me wrong.
Girl time was great.
Just sucks when it has to include chores :)
A long stay at Barnes and Noble made up for it though. And shopping for face wash and shampoo with a "Tween". Not even sure how many lotions we sampled.
I can tell you, we were smelly!
In a good way :)

Today. I colored. I finished the scarecrows, crows, and leaves that I started earlier in the week:

After some "fussy cutting", I turned them into cards. I just saw that term on another blog recently and thought...that fits my type of cutting perfectly. Sometimes, tedious things drive me nuts! For some reason, cutting doesn't. It's a form of mediation for me I think. I'll zone out on it for hours. And I don't mind (unless my hand starts to cramp!).

There you have it. My Saturday creations :)

Happy Fall Y'All,

Rhoda

Freaky Friday...

Trying to figure out what theme Friday should be.

Fabulous Friday.

Fun Finds Friday.

Fresh Friday.

Funky Friday.

Hmmm. Today it's going to be Freaky. Probably not as freaky as most would expect, because I don't do freaky. Images stay in your brain bank for life. Everything you have ever seen is being stored, somewhere in your memory. Personally, I don't want to fill up that space with nasty, freaky, disturbing images. I'm okay with G-PG13.

Some Freaky Illustrations on cardboard.

Not so scary, unless you are little and their are monsters in you closet. (Those of you with little ones that are scared of the closet, air freshener with a "Monster Be Gone" label works wonders! Just spray it in the closet and under the bed before you tuck them in.)

And some creepy sculpture. I'm not sure what is so fascinating about these dolls, but they draw me in every time I see them. Little souls, all their own.

Happy Freaky Friday.

Rhoda

Almost There...

It's almost the end of the week. Yay!!

For some reason, it feels really long this week. Probably because it was so full. Good news is, that in all the fullness, things were accomplished.

That's way better than a full week that ends with you wondering, how you will ever manage to finish it all.

Thought I would share some refreshing eye candy this evening as my blog post. There were a number that caught my eye, but I think this is my favorite for the evening.

Repurposed:


How beautiful is this. Loads of fun things to click on. Sometimes, Etsy is just fun to wander around. Window shopping, virtually :)

Have a great Thursday!!

Rhoda

Challenge Myself...

I did it. I'm managing a blog post.
After a day of school.
After making dinner.
After doing Yoga.
Yay!
Do you know how hard it is to do Yoga when the cat thinks it needs your yoga mat more than you do? And every time you try to go into plank or downward dog, the cat rips your ankles to shreds. A nightmare I tell you. Even pushing him off and saying "ppsstt" wouldn't make him leave me alone. I had to do the first part of the practice half on and half off my mat. Eventually, he gave up. I think he got sick of flinching each time I started to step back. He wasn't sure if I was going push on him again or not. The dog's bed was invaded after that. Fine by me!

And now, that I have accomplished all my tasks, and survived the cat, I am going to color.

Challenging myself to color something a little smaller and more detailed. It is the digital stamps that I created over the weekend. Here it is:

Hoping to use it for some cards. I'll post the progress :)

Happy Tuesday!

Rhoda

Scarecrows and Owls

That fall feeling is in the air. And with it comes thoughts of pumpkins, corn fields, scarecrows, and crisp apples.

I missed the farmer's market this weekend, but I am going to try my darndest (it's a word...right?) to get there next Saturday. I should make it to at least one before the season is over!

I spent the weekend at home. Playing. Watching movies. Playing some more. I did take the kids swimming, again. Hoping to go at least once more, before it gets to cold. Then we will have to switch locations.

While I was playing, I listed about 10 new items. If you haven't been over to my Etsy Shop, you should go take a peek :)

I'll try to post a few items here on my blog as the week goes by. Share them with you that way too.

Here are the scarecrows. I made them as line art (digital stamps) and colored. Hoping to print the line art out and color them this week for some new cards.

And the line art version:

There are also some super cute owls. I'm thinking about making them in Halloween colors, and then Christmas colors too. What do you think?

Have a great Monday!

Rhoda