Twinkle Star Art blog

Lose the training wheels

Here's my Shadow Shot Sunday...

We managed to take away our boy's training wheels today and he was off like the wind!

 

However, before Mr WAF's special milestone was able to sink in, his front tooth was knocked out by his little sister's almighty tackle on the front lawn!

 

You wouldn't believe such a sweet little girl who's not even three yet could knock out her big brother's tooth with one powerful kick.

Looks like the tooth fairy will be stopping by tonight (second time this week!). Gees... I hope she remembers this time. She's known as the 'forgetful fairy' in our house.

For more Shadow Shot Sunday fun, hop on over to Hey Harriet's.

NEW illustration badges & pocket mirrors

 

Pocket mirrors for girls

 

Big badges for boys  

Denim Days has been very busy making badges and pocket mirrors from my illustrations over the last couple of weeks. I was so thrilled when they arrived in the post. Thanks Tracey for doing a super job, they look fantastic! 

Twinkle Star Art badges, mirrors, pendants and gift cards will be available to purchase next Saturday at the BrisStyle Indie Designers Market (5th December 9am to 4pm, St Augustine's Church Hall, Racecourse Rd, Hamilton, Brisbane).

 

illustration gift cards for the BiDM

Here's something new developing in my studio. I'm making gift cards and envelopes to sell from my Twinkle Star Art stall at the BrisStyle Indie Designer's Market.

I'll be selling them separately and in sets of five, all with matching envelope seals.

 

 

What did I learn today?

1. The tediousness of making envelopes by hand should be seriously considered prior to commencing.

2. Blue play dough is unsurprisingly difficult to remove from tongue and teeth of a two year old.

3. Invite a two year old over to peer pressure your child into doing wee wees on the toilet is successful.

4. After failing to respond to 'Mummy!' three times, my children will resort to using 'A M A N D A!!!'.

 

and the winner is...

Firstly, thank you everyone who entered by leaving comments on my Butterfly Girl art print giveaway.

The winner is...

number 34! 

Congratulations djboggs you have won a fine art print of my latest illustration, Butterfly Girl. I'll contact you shortly asking for an address to post your red haired butterfly girl art print.

My commiserations to those who didn't win this time. If you had your heart on the Butterfly Girl art print, my Butterfly collection individual art prints and name prints are now available for purchase from my Twinkle Star Art, Etsy and Made it shops.

You can try your chances with my Paris art print set giveaway over at BrisStyle's blog, only a couple more days to enter.

 

Butterfly collection

 

distributing BrisStyle flyers bomber Style!

Here's my shot for Hey Harriet's Shadow Shot Sunday. A unique way of distributing BrisStyle flyers don't you think?

 

I discovered the creative gene runs strong in my family after stumbling across my 6 year old deeply absorbed in creativity on my art studio floor. With a pile of perfectly formed, colourful BrisStyle Bomber Jets beside him. 

His eye to paper folding focus is comparable to Superman's ability to emit heat energy from his eyes. Although my 6 year must have his tongue glued to the outside right corner of his mouth to keep his focus beam connection (I guess superheroes and creatives have their differences). 

How can I be mad at a boy for using the freedom of his imagination, even at the cost of my time that morning photocopying and trimming all those flyers.

Anyway, if you can't quite read all the information on those BiDM flyers between all the intricate folds, this sums it up...

BrisStyle Indie Designers Market is on Saturday the 5th December at 9am - 4pm. St Augustine's Church Hall, Racecourse Road, Hamilton. So if you're in town, drop in and say 'hi!' or 'Merry Christmas!' would be nice. The BiDM will be the hottest destination for everything handmade this Christmas.

Check out Hey Harriet's place for more awesome shadow shots. Not saying that mine's at all awesome. I was too impatient to wait until late afternoon for the loooong aeroplane shadows.

Art print giveaway ~ Butterfly Girl

I finally captured and completed my Butterfly Girl illustration...

 

Butterfly Girl

My new Butterfly collection is almost complete. To celebrate, I'm giving away this Butterfly Girl art print.

To enter, all you need to do is leave a comment at the end of this post with the hair colour of the little girl in your life who would love this art print. It's that simple!

The winner will receive the Butterfly Girl art print (pictured above) with the hair colour of their choice. Please include your email address, website or blog link for me to contact you. 

Entries close in just one week! Friday 20th November, midnight America/New York time (2pm Saturday 21st November for Australians). I will draw the winner using a random number generator. Anyone can enter, I'm happy to post 'free' worldwide.

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More from my Butterfly Collection...

 

Butterfly Hearts ~ Butterfly Flowers ~ Butterfly Girl

I will be working on the matching personalised 'letter art' name prints next week. My Butterfly Collection will be available to purchase soon.