MS Challenge Walk Fundraiser

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I’m really excited to share the two custom prints I created for Boston blogger and MS advocate Jodi Dwyer! She’s raising money for her MS Challenge Walk this fall! $6 of every print purchase goes right to her fundraiser!

I was really touched and excited when Jodi contacted me about creating prints for her cause. MS research is close to my heart seeing as my Nana has had it for the majority of her life. And my mom’s best friend was diagnosed a few years ago and it’s been pretty rapid. So I’m so glad Jodi reached out and that I can have a small part in helping fund her walk and research! Maybe next year I’ll walk right alongside you, Jodi!

Check out these prints in my Etsy Shop!

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GIVEAWAY! | w. Kate the (almost) Great

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HEY LFR FRIENDS! I’m so excited to be giving away an awesome thing with Kate the (almost) Great this week! Thanks Kate for having me! All you have to do is follow the directions below and you will have a chance to win an Ashley Brooke Designs mug!

Image used with permission from Ashley Brooke Designs

Winner gets to choose their prize! All mugs here (except for the set) are options.

Kate – Kate the (Almost) Great
Elizabeth and Luke – Something Saturdays
Victoria – Poverty Luxe
Stephanie Rita – Letters from Rita

Details:– Giveaway goes from 4/20/15 12:00 AM EST to 4/26/15 11:59 PM EST.
– You must be 18 to enter.
– This is only open to the USA.
– Any entries that are falsified (aka you lie and say you did something that you didn’t) will be deleted without warning. (Actually had this issue last month. Come on – you’re smarter than that.)
– The winner will be notified via email within 48 hours.
– You will have 48 hours to respond to claim your prize.
– If you do not respond within that time, a new winner will be chosen.

CLICK HERE TO ENTER >> a Rafflecopter giveaway

Progress + Style

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I wanted to do a little comparison, to show how my lettering style has progressed through the last 3 years! The top is a recent piece I made, and the bottom is from about 3 years ago! Crazy, right?

Let’s talk style. In both my photography work and lettering work, right off the bat I wanted SO BADLY to have a style. But it doesn’t happen like that. You don’t wake up one day and decide to take photos and immediately have a pronounced style. You have to work for it! You have to experiment! I didn’t realize that. But looking back now, after 5 years of photography and 3 years of lettering, I can see how my style evolved and my craft has gotten better. And I’m hoping that the more I work and practice, even better it will still become!!

“Splatter Color” Process

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I wanted to share a little of my “splatter color” creative process, since clearly I’m obsessed with it. (If you haven’t been following the journey on Instagram, you should!!) First I splatter fresh water with a paintbrush, sort of strategically around my watercolor paper. I try to make it into a wreath shape so that I have space in between to write words.

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Then I pick my colors, usually three, usually complimentary, and individually fill each droplet with pigment! Very tedious, but I do it this way because I’m actually fascinated by how the water snatches up the color. And I can guide it into swirls or zigzags if I want.

Then I let it dry, which usually takes two hours, and then I add the words!

My first few pieces are in my Etsy shop and are discounted because they were experimental!

Real-talk-ing it out.

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Let’s get into some real talk. The main thing that I want for this little lettering business is to make art that isn’t regular. I want to make art that means something. To you, to me, to anyone who reads it. But the internal struggle I’m having is that I kind of also want to make a summer line of prints, with quotes that I love and maybe other people won’t love, but I love them. I have so many ideas in my head and I think that maybe having a set line of prints would help my shop be consistent, and if people like the prints, they can grab one right away instead of waiting for a custom order to go through and for me to make it. Does that make sense? I’m kind of in a weird brainstorm/struggle space. What do ya’ll think? New summery line of prints? Stay purely custom? What do the masses say?!?! 😉