Art of Licensing
My Playful Penguin sculptures are featured on page 104 in Art Doll Quarterly
About Me
An artist who aspires to become a children's book illustrator. Stays young at heart and an avid daydreamer. When the weather permits, I enjoy visiting/biking on the nature trail near my house. Visiting the trail has brought me many hours of enjoyment and relaxation. My camera is usually by my side while on the trail. I like to try to find the small and unnoticeable as subjects for my photos. And of course flowers and plant life encompass many of my subjects.I take pride in creating items with quality craftsmanship. I earned my BFA degree at UWO with an emphasis in drawing and sculpture. While attending school, I discovered my love of watercolors and sculpting with Apoxie Sculpt. This is when and where Lilly the Ladybug took shape and blossomed into a variety of subjects for my work. Both Lilly and I hope you enjoy the work of Lilly Bug Studio and discover, "the wonder of new things."
Category Archives: Christmas
Handmade Holidays in 2011
This year was a Christmas filled with handmade gifts, which happens to be my favorite kind of gift. I made a lot of gifts to give this year as well as received plenty of fantastic handmade gifts. Before the year … Continue reading
Sparkly Sequined Ornaments
I love sparkly things and crafts and sharing my love of crafting with my nieces and nephew. What better project to create together than these delightful sequined ornaments that I bought as a kit from a local craft store. Each … Continue reading
Glitter Snowflake Ornament Project
Rescue those ugly ornaments from the clearance bins! I found these rather “blah” snowflake ornaments at the dollar store. They seemed to be saying, “please cover me in glitter and make me pretty!” Ironically they look better photographed than they … Continue reading
Handmade Christmas Gift tags and Greeting Cards
I enjoy visiting a local scrapbooking store, The Scrapbook Cottage. Each month they offer free make n’ take events. In November they had two make n’ takes and fortunately I was able to attend both of them. At the first … Continue reading
Handmade Angel & Gingerbread Boy Christmas Cards
This year I made some angel ornaments and while taking pics of them, I thought about using some of the photographs of the angels to use as images on some handmade Christmas cards. It was a delight to take pics … Continue reading
Handmade Christmas Cards
My previous blog post was about the ornaments that I made while in a class at the Scrapbook Cottage. In this article I’d like to share with you some cards that I made in another class that I took there. … Continue reading
Pretty Paper Ornaments
There’s a local scrapbooking & stamping store, Scrapbook Cottage, where I love to take classes. They not only offer scrapbook and card making classes, they offer classes where you can learn how to make paper sculptures, such as shoes and … Continue reading
Handmade Gingerbread Boy Ornament
Here’s a fun project just in time for Christmas. I made this gingerbread boy Christmas ornament with a Styrofoam gingerbread shape. The items I used for this project are: #D29 Dazzlers Confection Glitter Designer Dries Clear Adhesive Puffy Pens Spice … Continue reading
Handmade Angel Ornaments
Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly…. –G.K. Chesterton There have been angel sightings in my work area the last couple of weeks. They have flown onto my counter top to be fitted with their golden halos and metallic … Continue reading
