Happy Almost-Thanksgiving folks! I hope you have many reasons to be thankful this week. I certainly do! A little update: Recently, Janine from Green Wave introduced me to a sustainable shop she thought my cards would fit in at and I dropped by with my cards to see if they would like it. It went well and I am thrilled …
Sneak Peek: Big Birthday Wishes in a Little World!
With a grandmother approaching her 90s and an upcoming slew of family birthdays, I set out to make a ‘dream BIG’ birthday card. Here it is, inspired by some interesting looking wildflowers we saw at the Sierra Nevada! Will be up in the shop soon, and I hope you don’t mind getting one from me one day!
Illustrated Friday’s First Wedding Charette Giveaway!
Happy Almost-End-of-the-Week everyone! This is a special Illustrated Friday announcement. Here’s the back-story, I am creating a line of custom-illustrated botanical-inspired wedding invitations and would like to invite entries for the sample custom artwork. Since they will need to be drawn anyway I thought that this would be a great opportunity for a lucky wedding couple to get their own …
Atelier Thursday: ‘dream BIG’ Seeded Holiday Cards
My first ‘dream BIG’ holiday collection went through a little morphing as I finally found the best way to present them! The new gorgeous handmade seeded papers I ordered arrived recently and I made a few cards to see how much I like them on it. Be sure to click on the images to enlarge it so you can see …
A Birthday Trip at a Big Rock
For my birthday this year, my wonderful husband surprised me with a lovely trip to Morro Bay in Central California, a little seaside town with a tiny harbor and a giant rock in the middle of the bay. The bay was, as most of California is, a treasure trove of nature’s gems and I couldn’t help picking out some of …
Inspired Monday: A little dream sketch
This is a drawing you will see quite a bit of in the future. It’s a little sneak peek and dreamy little sketch of what I would love the studio to be like ONE day! In the meantime, till that materializes, we can all build castles in the tree! Don’t forget to dream folks, and capture them somewhere!
Featured in Etsy Treasury: The Traveler’s Destination
Happy Friday everyone! Janelle and Jason from Nomadscraftetc featured one of my artwork wedding invitations in their recent treasury. I am so honored, to be a part of such a stellar group of gorgeous vintage and crafted items. Click on the image below to see the treasury: Thank you Janelle and Jason!!
DREAM BIG Keepsake Cards: The Holiday Collection
My last ‘dream BIG’ release was here. They are now available in cheerful Holiday Splendor! Upon close inspection, these are upgrades from the original collection. Still cute, but a lot more detailed (they were painted at a larger scale) and thus even more befitting their holiday card status. They will definitely make lovely keepsake cards for your loved ones long …
Illustrated Friday: A Lovebird Botanical Invitation
Tracy has impeccable timing! She sent me her charette entry just as I was working on a design for the new Personalized Creations line debuting soon (details later!). Long story short, the mission behind this line is to offer our brides one-of-a-kind, custom-illustrated artwork stationery that fulfilled three things: sustainability, unique personalized storytelling and affordability. Tracy loves birds, vintage things, …
Twisted Trees of the Sierra Nevada Part 1: The Ancients
This past weekend, we had the most amazing camping/hiking trip ever. Specifically 6 hours north to the jaw-droppingly beautiful region of California’s Sierra Nevada, a stone’s throw away from the legendary Yosemite. In spite of being rained and hailed on during our hike, what we encountered there was to me the epitome of tree heaven. And heaven perhaps it was, …