Heather and Tracy from Sunny Little Studio are bringing your kid's imagination to life by taking their flat 2D drawings and turning them into real-life plush toys. Just looking at some of their examples has re-kindled so much joy within me. Every creation is spontaneous and fun and the end result is some of the most creative plush toys I have ever seen. Wow... do I feel like a kid at a candy store.

It's been a while since I've seen the movies, but as far as I remember, when Indiana Jones finds buried treasure, he barely lets out a little squeal under his breath. He's also probably too cool to start hiccupping because he's JUST. SO. DELIGHTED with what he's found today!

Me though? When I find buried treasure, I'm hardly cool about it. So when illustrator John Hersey emailed me these exclusive sketchbook doodlings, you better believe I was making all sorts of awkward noises under my breath! (Apologies to my fellow cafe-patrons who were trying to quietly sip their lattes at the time).



So far these doodlings have only been seen by John, his kids... and now we're JUST. SO. DELIGHTED to dust them off and share them with you guys! Enjoy.

Cecilia Levy stains the inside of her books with coffee and then adds delicate lines with a fine liner pen to create these simple and beautiful patterns. I'd easily frame any one of these to hang on the studio wall.

For the last 10 months we've been running a tumblr feed of drawn Netflix envelopes called Doodle Flix. It's been incredibly fun and inspiring to see the kinds of art people are creating within the constraint of a red envelope. Today I wanted to highlight our most popular contributor, Tim Hodge, whose already uploaded over 20 incredible drawings and I have no doubt his envelopes are putting smiles upon the faces of Netflix and postal employees everywhere. If you haven't done so already, give it a whirl and doodle something before you mail out your next movie.

Thanks Tim, keep 'em coming!

We received 126 super cool submissions. They really were so good, and it was a blast selecting the mix of twelve for the June issue. From Anorak Magazine and us here at DA, thank you all for participating.

Congratulations to Patrick O'Leary, Sarah Mazzetti, Cynthia Bataille, Tahra Morton, Vincent Kilbride, Calico Melton, Justin Butts, Tsz Wan, Fiona Biddington, Lottie Pencheon, Elena Lombardi and Abel Jimenez -- your artwork will be published in this coming June's issue!

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