Happy Valentine's Day!

Yep, it's another Valentine's Day. :) If you're like me, just about any holiday or occasion anymore calls for some serious scrambling, searching, and pulling everything together at the last minute just to get through the day, much less to thoroughly enjoy it. For those of us, I present the "Oh NO" clown above. :) Happy Valentine's day to all!

Wintery goodness

For all those out there who love winter and snow in general, here's a little something fun I created that I thought I would share. The little girl was made with cut paper, scanned in and altered digitally to add the falling snow, tongue, and background. This is a gif image and should move to show her eating the falling snow. If you find that it isn't moving or you can't view the image, please let me know. I probably downloaded it incorrectly. ;)

*All images copyright Mindy Lou Hagan unless otherwise noted.*

Looking for her prince...

This is a piece I created with some cut papers, scrapbooking supplies and stamps and inks. After I created it, I scanned it in and added some digital alterations to it to create the final you see below. I'm thinking now that maybe I should do a matching piece of her "prince".

Elephant Music

This is a little something I created ages ago and just finally got around to scanning in the past few months. It's very simplistic, but I liked it and mostly made it for my mom who has always had a soft spot for elephants, of all things. ;) I've been meaning to add some digital alterations to it, but have yet to get around to it. :P For now, just enjoy it as it is. ;)

Some new pieces for the new year.

Sorry for the prolonged absence over the last few months. Other things have kept me away from posting, however, I desperately need to keep this blog of mine updated, so I plunkered down and decided, 'why not today?' And since Valentine's day is quickly approaching, I decided to do some pieces for it and thought it would be fun to share one or two of those. ;)

My first homemade gift...kind of

This is my very first homemade gift that I'm giving away to someone outside of my family. I'm not exactly 100% finished with it, since I need to seal the back of the picture, but other than that, I think it's ready to go. It's for a friend whose daughter just had a baby. As you can tell from the picture, his name is Alexander. However, his nickname is going to be Zander. His grandmother wasn't sure though that everyone would understand how they got that name from the other, so I did my own little take on how they could tell. And of course, I decided to put my 'wanna-be-children's-illustrator' twist on it and make it a picture that also says "From A to Z", too. :) So, Here's the final outcome:

Do you see the Apple and Zebra to go along with the theme as well? :) I can't wait to give it to them. I've been working on it for a long while now, just to get it right. It's even got a 3-d like quality, too, because I made the eyelashes stick out by cutting a bunch of little slits on a piece of paper and pulling them out. I really enjoyed making this piece. I really hope the couple likes it. :) Oh, it's made by cut paper by the way. :)

More spring creations....

Here's another spring ensemble I put together. It's not as good as the owl, but I thought it was cute. It's just a couple of birdies, in case you can't tell. :)