PROJECTS IN THE WORKS

These last few weeks I’ve been asked to make some invitations and notecards.  First there was my niece’s baby shower.  She’s expecting twin boys and is decorating the babies’ room with an elephant theme in khaki and light blue, so I used that to design this invitation and thank you card for her.

ShowerInvite   ThnkYouHearts

Another project was to make notecards for a tennis player friend to give her girls, who also play tennis.

1BlueTennis  2JillSwirl                3 RyanM  4 JennBlond

I made lots of sketches and decided on these as samples to show her.  We ended up using numbers one, three and four to personalize for the three girls.  They were printed on a cream-colored card stock with matching envelopes.

Next up is a wedding invitation suite for a couple who will be married in July. More on that in a future post!

VERNIS

VernisPortrait

 

After working on some collage pieces, I had a section of a transparency left over – the top of a woman’s head.  I pasted it to a piece of watercolor paper then painted in a face to complete the head.  The word “vernis” was stamped on using an old metal French stamp I had gotten at a flea market.  Just a silly, but fun, exercise.

New Note Cards & Tags

Dainty little sprigs painted with watercolors in all different shades of greens and blues.  I’m using these to make gift tags and note cards for my etsy shop.  Feeling very productive lately; art-wise anyway.  I haven’t even decorated for Christmas, except for a plain evergreen wreath on the front door!  Tomorrow maybe . . .Image