CJ's Crafts

I am super excited to share this design option with you tonight! I have seen lots of requests for 'Baby's First Christmas', so I...

I have to say this Bee is so cute with his little Santa hat. I know it is only August, but it has been fun re-working some of my designs...

I just love how this turned out - It was a bit of an accident to be honest. When I am manipulating the background using the brushes in...

Today's design is the Jolly Snowman. Even as one of my earlier paintings, he is still one of my favourites, always jolly and ready to...

For the next installment of the Robin designs, here is Robin and berries. Created by using the gouache paintings of the Robin designs. ...

I wanted to have a little play with colours on this design. I decided to use s similar technique with the background and change the...

Today I have been trying to organize more designs into my Redbubble shop, along with smartening up my website and adding items to my...

Moving on from the original designs of Robin and Holly, I scanned the design in and separated the elements using Photoshop. Once each...

Design Blog 10 One of the amazing things about Photoshop is that you can tinker around with the design without any waste, just your time....

Design Blog 9 - Following on from the previous Nebula blog, I have tweaked the design to blur out the edges making it better for some of...

Design Blog 8 - I developed an ideal way of working with paints. It has taken me quite a while to work it out, but for smaller works, it...

Blog 7 - My first tapestry when I began my CJ's Crafts business. As you know by now, I love weaving and have a degree in textile crafts....

Design Blog 6 - Why Butterflies & Sunflowers exactly? I don't know why, I sat there painting butterflies and decided sunflowers would...

Blog 5. My bumble bee is seeing spots! It is amazing collaborating original artworks with the flexibility of Photoshop. The bees are...

Blog 4 - My wonderful dragonfly is busy soaring above the green bushes looking for an adventure. As nearly always I have painted this in...

The Humble Bumble Bee on Lavender. Originally painted in gouache. This was painted for my hand bound sketchbooks and looks great on...

I love my little bee I painted for my sketchbooks, I am not always happy with my own art - the problem with being a perfectionist, but...

Good evening everyone. I am trying to continue setting everything up, but there are so many things to do, it sometimes feel like a mouse...