Since spring is almost around the corner I decided it was time to put up my felt easter egg ornaments. My mom had an easter tree with little wooden easter eggs when we were kids so that was my inspiration. I got the branch and white vase from Michaels for around $8. Super cute!
I’m currently busy working on two more wedding invitation suites, which I’m very excited about. To be fair I’m going to wait until the invitations are in the mail to post the final pictures. Both the brides are family and I want the invitations to be a surprise for people receiving them. But here are two teasers:
Last year for Valentines Day I made my boyfriend a card that had a picture of 80’s band Loverboy on it and it said “Happy Valentines Day, lover boy”. That went over pretty well so I knew this year I had to come up with something just as good. He’s a huge fan of Law and Order SVU so I did cartoons of detectives Benson and Stabler. Ok so they’re not really romantically involved on the show, but those unrequited tv relationships are sometimes the best. I should probably make one of Mulder and Scully next!
Here’s a new invitation design I did for Erin’s love bird themed v-day party coming up. I think it’s pretty charming without being over the top cutesy for a valentine’s day party. I believe she is incorporating the bird illustrations into her party decor so I will be sure to snap some photos of that.
I just finished a new painting from the road trip my sister and I took last year. This painting came from one of my many pics of the very photogenic city, New Orleans. A very inspiring city, I’d love to go back and stay for more than 3 hours. I framed the painting and gave it to my sis for her birthday. Hope she likes it!
Well Christmas may be over, but I still can’t get enough of making ornaments out of felt. I think I’ll probably just keep making them all year round because they are so fun! I made two more cats personalized for my friends’ kitties. Here are Rosie, the brown tabby and A.C. aka Annoying Customer, the slightly peeved-looking and always well dressed model for Kate’s greeting card line. He even has his own blog. I’m thinking I might post a listing on my etsy site soon for personalized cat ornaments.
New projects from this weekend: making felt cat ornaments in the likeness of my cat and my sister’s cat and wrapping all my gifts. I did craft paper with different ribbons.
I find making these felt ornaments really relaxing while watching tv. It also made me feel really wholesome while I watched The Jersey Shore on mtv haha.
The tabby cat is Mabel, my kitty and the black and white one is Fiona, Carrie’s cat. This shows the pattern I created in illustrator.
After much convincing from my sister to organize my craft materials I finally took everything out of the random ziploc bags and put them into my old art bin I used in college. It has little compartments that work really well for sequin, beads, needles and thread. It’s so much easier to find things now!
Here are some more felt ornaments I did and my Christmas decor also…
Well wow, in the past 3 days I’ve made 6 etsy sales! I’m totally pumped about this since prior to this week I had been feeling lost in the sea of whimsy that is etsy. I had let almost all of my listings expire due to a busy schedule with school and work, but then I got a message from a family friend and also daughter of a very influential art teacher from when I was like 6 years old. She asked if I still had my alphabet letters. I had been working on redesigning them for the 5th time probably so it was about time I uploaded them. I reworked the color scheme so that they could be bought together as a set better and added a feature so people could have them personalized with a name. I think the timing was great to get them out there since Christmas is coming up and all. Maybe note cards will be the next order of business…and ordering more paper!
I designed another wedding invitation suite that I’m very happy with! This one was for a friend from college on the east coast. She requested a design with cherry blossoms and pink and brown to go with her color scheme. I was very excited to hear that she wanted something with cherry blossoms, I love them! So I hand painted the flower branch in watercolors, then scanned it and fit it into the design. I like adding a little detail from the design to go next to the return address on the envelopes. It makes it more special for the person receiving it. (actual names and addresses have been changed)
