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My mantra is simple: create with your heart and your hands will follow. I am here to facilitate your creativity, fuel your curiosity and celebrate your uniqueness.

Bucket Fillers

There are so many ways to make bucket fillers to hand out to folks in your local community and in your travels. The first edition of limited-stock kits are all sold out but I hope you can still make your own with inspiration from the free video library! New limited edition kits coming in April!

Bucket Filler Kits
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I have long wanted to make available kits that allow you to get creative on the go and hand out mini art pieces to folks who might need a little lift, a token of appreciation or just a smile. These bucket fillers can be made in so many different ways — and they bring joy to you, as a creator, and to the recipient. It’s a recipe for happiness in a little box!

MansiMakes with YOU

  • Live Zoom Studio Hour: A live session once a month where you can ask your burning questions, get feedback on your projects, ask for tips, suggestions or product reviews, and create together.

  • You will have access to video tutorials with commentary, helpful tips, insights into my thought process and ideas on how to use your own supplies to create with confidence. At least one new video tutorial will be added every month.

  • You will always be the first to get sneak peeks of products I'm about to release on my website before anyone on social media gets a whiff of them. Product launches to the public will usually be 24-48 hours after being released here and since they're all handmade and limited stock, this is a huge perk!

  • As part of this exciting new launch in 2024, I am excited to offer one digital download every month. You can use these downloads as screensavers, Home Screens on your phones or even print them and use them in your own creative explorations.

  • Every month I will host a giveaway for community members. Some examples of what you might win, include original art mailed to you, a free seat in an upcoming pre-recorded class, and free crafting products.

Sharing Authentically

I am excited and nervous about my debut on MadeTV. It is a raw, painful and honest look at my journey and how I overcame rejection, fear, depression and loneliness to become the artist I am today.

I hope my story will encourage you to introspect and explore what being an artist means to you. Will you join me?

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 What I Do

I lead online classes, provide 1:1 coaching and represent various art and craft brands

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Online Classes

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What People Say

  • "This was sooooo much fun and a challenge as well. I had a background that I was uncomfortable with that turned out to be my favorite side in the end - go figure!!! I definitely will be making more of these in the future - my grandkids will be getting personalized birthday cards - how fun!!"

    Tina M K

  • "Thank you so much for showing us how to make gratitude tags. It is so freeing. It really is listening to the paint and paper and seeing where it takes you. I've shared a few already and am excited to share more."

    Connie S

  • "I loved your class Mansi! Everything you said I needed to hear. Love your approach and enjoyed playing with those yummy backgrounds. My problem is I don’t like whiting out what I have done…but obviously works great here. Wonderful exercise in having no outcome in mind. Your child analogy really spoke to me. Thank you!!"

    Suzy F

  • "Mansi, I want to sincerely THANK YOU for your wonderful course. I have never used a gel plate before and am now bursting with ideas. I tried using my 12X12 plate last night and had a blast. I have had it sitting in my stash for years and never had the confidence to get it out. You have inspired me and taught me some wonderful techniques and I am so very grateful. Love your teaching style."

    Theresa M W

  • "Thank you, Mansi!! This has been more of a journey than a class, and one that I never expected to make! I feel like an explorer in my own creativity whereas before I was just a conductor directing my energies into practical crafts . I still enjoy creating as a gift, and won't stop doing that, but I now know that I can create just for the sake of creating, and I can explore and play, not just follow directions. Thank you for this eye-opening revelation, and for being so supportive throughout the process."

    Francine U

This is a different kind of journal spread -- not my usual free-spirited explorations but I love it because it still has so much experimentation (water-based distress inks on a mini gel plate stamped directly on a watercolor sketch book combined with
This used to be a canvas print of a macro dew drop on a leaf from my @iphonestories days. One day I got brave enough to paint over it. Stencils, inks, texture pastes, journaling, finger painting ... treating it the same way as I do my art journals an
There are a couple of reasons why I feel exploration is at the heart of my art: 1. It helps me break free from what I already know. When I journal, I am able to push myself beyond familiar mediums and techniques. 2. It helps me develop my own voice
This journal spread was an experiment in collaging with momigami (kneaded paper). I wasn't intending for it to turn into a face, especially since I don't think I make "good" portraits, but this became another unrestrained experiment. In m
#mybucketfillers add intentional kindness to our creativity. This kindness is extended first to ourselves through grace, patience and acceptance of our imperfections, allowing us the freedom to make mistakes and giving us the permission to play. The
I do a lot of couch coloring ... most of which doesn't get shared here because, for some reason, it doesn't feel "significant enough." But I thought I'd share a little glimpse of one of the journals that stays next to my couch at all times
I have been making #mybucketfillers for the last seven years, handing them out to people in our community and in my travels — strangers with whom I have brief interactions probably just that one time. They are experiments in mixing mediums on d
#mybucketfillers are little mini playgrounds for me. When I play, my mind makes unconventional connections, finding surprising combinations of ideas, materials, and techniques. I am constantly surprising myself and learning through play ... and then
I haven't made many canvas paintings but when I do, I love treating them like my art journal pages. This one is currently hanging in our foyer "in waiting." I am not entirely sure it's done...and it might just change completely when I take
Even if you don't consider yourself a bonafide painter or artist, I know that you can make #mybucketfillers look amazing with simple techniques like these. All you need is some colored paper (I used gel plate prints here), a blank tag and a heart pun
This is your daily reminder that you don't need elaborate art skills to create #mybucketfillers -- look at this! It's a discarded brayer sheet with some dots, a die cut and some fancy ribbon. That's it. And I know the person who got it cherishes and
I'm always imploring people to enjoy the process more than the end result, to immerse themselves in the journey than worry about the destination, to savor the here and now than plan for the future -- art is one place where you truly can be in the mom
What will it take for you to believe that you are an artist? I genuinely want to know. And I ask from a place of empathy. I was 19 when the admissions committee at a prestigious design college in India said I was “clearly not an artist!”
Thousands of folks all over the country have joined me in making these little tokens of love in their own unique way and hundreds have asked me to provide on-the-go kits. I will have a new DIY kit for #mybucketfillers coming in May but I wanted to l
Since you all seem to like these simple cards, here is one more made from scraps of brayer paper. "What is brayer paper," you ask? A brayer is a roller tool used in monoprinting to apply inks and paint on to a gel plate ... I "brayer o