Hi! Today’s the big day! It’s the reveal of the Hero Arts Holiday Catalog! So excited to share what we have been working on. (Pssst, I hear there’s a giveaway on the Hero Arts blog to celebrate!)
If you haven’t seen the catalog yet, there’s a new Chalkboard Boutique Line designed by me. I have to keep pinching myself to make sure that this is really happening. I’m a little nervous (okay make that really nervous!) about it! Usually we designers have worked in the background. But now? I’ll have my name on these stamps. So you can imagine the butterflies in my stomach…!
I can’t wait to get my hands on these stamps — we don’t even have the prototypes yet. Oh and! Wanted to point out that the leafy parentheses fit around the word stamps! So you can stamp something like “(MERCI)”. Too fun. And now a little behind the scenes…
I drew the balsam fir and maple leaf stamps on a rainy day at a cabin in Mont-Tremblant park, Quebec. It was so peaceful and relaxing. We had originally planned on going hiking, but it was just pouring. Not gonna happen. Jason was napping, I had finished my book, and we had no internet or TV. What to do? I sat and enjoyed watching the rain for a while but then I started getting restless… And then I remembered that I brought my Peerless Watercolors, paper, pens, and pencils with me. Yes!
So I ran out into the downpour to grab some specimens to sketch. Dried off, made myself a cup of maple tea to warm up and sat down to draw.
Our cabin was named erable or maple, so of course I had to do a maple leaf :)
You can really tell from the photos how hard it was pouring.
While flying back home to Austin, Texas I told Jason that I was thinking of using the balsam fir for our Christmas cards this year and he loved the idea. And then it hit me: why not make it into a stamp?
So then I hand lettered some messages to go with. Just had to add some French in honor of all the French in Quebec (I felt so sorry for inflicting my bad French on everyone, lol!) — plus I added some Spanish since it’s spoken here in Texas.
Then I designed the chalkboard background and the map to go with it. (The map is not officially part of the Chalkboard Boutique line, but I designed those two to go together. And, there just may be a clear set of messages and icons in the future to go with it, too! Wink!)
And that’s the “BTS” look at how these stamps came to be.
Sure hope you have as much fun using them as I had designing them.
Peace. xx
Congratulations Lisa!!! Love the leafy parenthesis stamp!!
Job well done!
I really like the chalkboard background and the simply written messages.
Thanks for sharing the birth,if you will, of your stamps:)
Great job, Lisa! I’ve got to have that chalkboard stamp!
These are fantastic!
That is so awesome – congratulations!
Thank you so, so much for sharing the BTS. I always wonder about this, and I’m beyond thrilled that somebody finally shared one!!!
Fantastic stamps. Cannot to get my hands on them!
How exciting to see your drawings made into stamps!
Awesome new designs, Lisa!!! Love the hand-drawn look of the sentiments.
THANKS for sharing the excitement about the Boutique Stamps! I am loving what I see! That chalkboard stamp is amazing! I am looking forward to more of your stamp designs, Lisa! I think you are onto something HUGE!!
Just yesterday I was searching the web for stamps in French. They are few and far between. So I was excited to see these sets today!
I love that you shared how these stamps came about, Lisa! Love this post and I lLOVE your stamps too! Congratulations!!!!! They are all really cool! :)
Lisa! Congrats! You’re so talented and I know everyone will love these!
Well done, Lisa! Thanks for sharing “Your Story”. Congratulations and keep sharing your talent with us! I can’t wait to get some “Lisa” stamps!!!
So exciting! Congrats! Love the nature inspired stamps!
Congratulations, Lisa and thanks for sharing the story behind creating this fun line of stamps!!
Fabulous job, LIsa – thank you, for sharing the insight :)
Oh what fun to read the back story on the creation of these lovely stamps! I grew up in a Montreal suburb and camped in Tremblant as a teenager. I have been living in Austin for 15 years now, so we have one of those “degrees of separation” things?
I can’t wait to get these Lisa stamps as the pine and maple are dear to me. Love the USA map stamp, everyone needs one of those.
I am off to look at the other Hero Arts new releases :)
Congratulations! Great job. I love the Quebec influence, too, of course. Sorry it rained so hard when you were here but look what ended up coming from your creative mind on that trip.
This collection is amazing! Congratulations! I have been wanting aUS map stamp just like this one for about a year. It is at the top if my wish list! Thanks for sharing and I can’t wait to see these in stores and in my craft room.
Woo hooooo! How awesome to have some Lisa Spangler stamps in the house!! LOVE your handwriting, too! Can’t wait, Lisa…..can’t wait!