Gretchen Heartaday's Blog (19)

And the winner is....art!

So for the last eighteen months or so I've been mostly sidetracked away from doing art, first when I thought I needed to be a massage therapist and then when I needed to be a Giant Squid on Squidoo followed by learning how to build a website the Site Build It way. Yesterday I had a long meeting with a great creative business coach (who provides her services free here in my small town because some people here were brilliant enough to create an economic development office to help businesses devel… Continue

Added by Gretchen Heartaday on August 1, 2009 at 3:19pm — 10 Comments

The Power of an Art Blog

I've had two health related companies find the image below on my heArt-a-Day blog and want to license it since January 2009, even though the original blog entry was in 2007. The second contact has turned into a lucrative commissioned job. My message here is, you just never know until you put it out there.

This is how t… Continue

Added by Gretchen Heartaday on April 12, 2009 at 4:00pm — 8 Comments

Make a Paper Ornament: The Porcupine Ball

The tradition at Christmas on my mom's side of the family was to carefully save all the foil wrapping paper after unwrapping presents in order to make these spectacular tree ornaments from them. I've made a Squidoo lens with instructions on how to make them (although I admit, writing directions isn't… Continue

Added by Gretchen Heartaday on December 10, 2008 at 4:30pm — 4 Comments

Playing Paper Dolls Online

Just messing around at this site: Belle of the Ball at Cartoon Doll Emporium. Continue

Added by Gretchen Heartaday on October 29, 2008 at 1:30am — 19 Comments

How I've Showcased My Creative Interests on Squidoo (and made a little cash too)

Lin ran across one of my squidoo lenses and suggested I post about them here. If you just want to go see them, I have a list of them on my "Lensography". If you want to know all the hows, whys and whats of Squidoo and a mini lesson in internet marketing - keep reading. Squidoo is a unique sort of free webpage hosting service where people can write pages about anything they are interested in. There are templates all set up with various s… Continue

Added by Gretchen Heartaday on July 5, 2008 at 6:30pm — 11 Comments

My apologies to my blog commenters

I just now found where the blog comments were!!! All these months I thought I had the e-mail notifcation on. So I'm very sorry if it looked like I was ignoring you all! Continue

Added by Gretchen Heartaday on February 13, 2008 at 3:24pm — No Comments

"Wheels of Love" Audio Meditation

Soul Love: Making Wheels of Love

The basic premise of this meditation is sending unconditional love out to all the groups you belong to...the "wheels". It goes beyond trying to "fix" anyone or anything. It's more about raising your consciousness and attracting people and things into your life that are on the same level. It's free and about half an hour in length.

I'm a huge fan of the people who do this website. It's not… Continue

Added by Gretchen Heartaday on February 10, 2008 at 5:23pm — 1 Comment

Made some digital art "tags", if you want to use them for Valentine's projects

I'm not going to write another whole blog post, though. lol Click on the link below:

Free Valentine's Tags for Collage and Scrapbooking
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Added by Gretchen Heartaday on February 8, 2008 at 8:03pm — No Comments

Mystical Santa Collage

I did this for the weekly Creativity Challenge over at the Jack and Cat Curio blog. He finds some amazing clip art for collage and gives it away! Also used some photoshop brushes from Obsidian Dawn (as I often do).

This is my little pagan tri… Continue

Added by Gretchen Heartaday on December 10, 2007 at 6:20pm — No Comments

Vote for Erzulie Freda Veve by Voodoomama

My real life artist friend Denise Alvarado, also known as Voodoomama, is in an art contest on a site called Brickfish, hoping to win money for a school scholarship. She is finishing up her Ph.D. in Psychology with her field of study being specific to helping native americans. She has developed a psychology "instrument" for determining wellness among native americans, something that hasn't been done before. The usual psychological tests try to measure overall wellness based on anglo culture. She… Continue

Added by Gretchen Heartaday on December 1, 2007 at 2:05am — 2 Comments

Vote for my Angel of Gratitude at ArtellaCafe...get some free clip art...

I entered a weekly contest at a website called ArtellaCafe. Artella is a creativity Zine which I have been featured in (once). It's a site like CCS, but slightly different.

Click here to vote. I am "Entry N, Angel of Gratitude". Voting ends tonight, November 30th, at 6 PM Eastern.

Anyway, I am SO close to winning, but I need a couple more votes. The prize is getting featured in the daily newsletter. After you vote you can… Continue

Added by Gretchen Heartaday on November 30, 2007 at 7:19pm — 3 Comments

Happy Thanksgiving!

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Added by Gretchen Heartaday on November 22, 2007 at 2:34pm — 4 Comments

I got the Today's Best Award on Zazzle!

I've been working my butt off all afternoon getting images up on t-shirts on Zazzle (after I told the Intuitive Arts group I wasn't going to be on the computer all day today ... ha!). Well, I guess it was worth it. I just got notified one of my products was picked for the Today's Best award, which means I get on the "awards showcase" page for the "rest of today" (whatever that means). Wooo hoooo!!!

See it here: Award… Continue

Added by Gretchen Heartaday on November 18, 2007 at 11:27pm — 12 Comments

Doing the Gratitude Dance

I just found this and there's just something about it that makes me smile. In response to the guy doing the hug thing, these two guys have invented the "gratitude dance".

Gratitude Dance on YouTube

and for more

Gratitude Dance Video Showcase
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Added by Gretchen Heartaday on November 18, 2007 at 6:47pm — 4 Comments

My First Rubber Stamp Design

The other day I got "scouted" through my heArt-a-Day blog by someone connected to a rubber stamp company called Hearts in Touch!. In 24 hours a ten year long dream of mine came true - I became a paid rubber stamp designer. :)

This is my design. I drew it in Photoshop (of course), but to show it off here I made a brush of it to make the background texture, put a layer style on it to make it look lik… Continue

Added by Gretchen Heartaday on November 8, 2007 at 9:30pm — 7 Comments

"Cat Nap" Digital Drawing

I try to do a drawing a day for my boyfriend. That's how my heArt-a-Day blog got started. In the beginning I did one just for him and then did another one for the blog, but lately I've been using some for both. This one is one of the better straight drawings I've done lately, so I decided today to make it public. As usual, done entirely in Photoshop. I really like the faux woodblock print or scratchboard effect I ended up with.

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Added by Gretchen Heartaday on November 5, 2007 at 7:56pm — 17 Comments

Been Shopping and Digital vs. "Analog" Artmaking

Oooo...I went out yesterday and visited two of the local scrapbooking stores. I'm not a scrapbooker but I keep getting edged more and more in that direction. I was interested in rubber stamps (the arty kind) for a few years but they're really losing store space to the scrapbooking stuff. Found a GREAT digital scrapbook methods book for making your own digital scrapbook elements. That's what I'm really interested in as far as digital scrapbooking goes - making my own stuff, being a designer more… Continue

Added by Gretchen Heartaday on November 4, 2007 at 5:52pm — 7 Comments

Trying out making art journal pages digitally

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Added by Gretchen Heartaday on November 2, 2007 at 7:41pm — 5 Comments

My Last Minute Halloween Heart Art

Last week I had plans to do a lot of Halloween art. Well, here it is late afternoon on All Hallow's Eve and I just finished my second piece (the first being my daily "art du jour" for my boyfriend, which I like to keep private). It's all "painted" in Photoshop CS2 with my Wacom Graphire4.

Below is a sample of it, but click this link, Halloween Heart, to go to my heArt-a-Day blog and see the whole thing. Yu… Continue

Added by Gretchen Heartaday on October 31, 2007 at 9:24pm — 2 Comments

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