Blog — "design"

I just may be crazy.






It's what Etsy is marketing this month, so I went with it. And don't be surprised if you see more of this in the next few days. ;)

Today's design is all about triangles. I'd gotten back into the paper cutting groove when I was without ink for a few days so I decided to keep at it. Here, I've used a mix of patterned paper and solid paper for the triangles. Sticking with the main patterned paper, I used green, grey, and aqua and my other colors and added layers.






By the way, does the patterned paper look familiar? That's paper from Katie's Wish. The same Lake digital paper set I used for the Etsy Greetings Team challenge last month.

I forgot to post my design! Can you imagine that?! Truth is, I was so excited about the arrival of my ink that I completely put this on the back burner and didn't remember until I woke up about, eh, 16 minutes ago.

So my design for yesterday is as follows---






I love the colors and the mod look. Textured sea blue card stock, textured apple green card stock, all on a white linen flat note. A little modern looking 'hello' finishes these up. Plus, there you'll see another wonderful colored envelope that I just recently added to my shop! So bright and bold! These are my new faves! ;)

You know those stationery sets that I've been talking about? Well, I have a little sneak peek for you. Each design is based off of a color pallet that has a bit of meaning behind it. All of the colors are pulled directly from my own photography from my personal travels all over the world and Baltimore. While I am waiting to reveal these designs to you until they've been printed and listed, I'll let you see what sorts of colors I've been playing with over the last few weeks.

Yellowstone

Sherwood Garden

Rocky Mountains

Baltimore

Day 21 has arrived. That means I am in the home stretch for my 30 day design fest! Not that I'm finding a shortage of creative inspiration. Today alone I've created another three designs as I prepare to ship a box of note cards off to my mom. She has an amazing bakery back home in Indiana and no matter how biased you may think I am, I still have yet to find bread as good as hers here in Baltimore. First of all, she uses a wood-fired oven that my dad built. Second of all, there is no bakery in Baltimore that I know of with a wood-fired oven. And third of all, her bread is just amazing.

Lucky for me, I was able to enjoy a slice of her wood-fired white sourdough today during my lunch. She had snuck a loaf of bread into her carry-on luggage for me when she and my dad visited over the 4th. So I popped the loaf into the freezer for safe keeping until my bread stash at that moment was depleted. And yum! How delicious it was!

Long story short, my mother also happens to let local artisans sell their items at her bakery. She had offered to let me do the same. So as I began preparing a box full of cards, I suddenly had all sorts of creative energy arrive. An now being ink-less at the moment doesn't seem as horrible as I had thought it had been! In fact, I am enjoying the paper cutting once again.





These one of a kind lovelies were made to go along with some wonderful meadow green envelopes that arrived in my paper shipment yesterday. You'll be sure to see more envelope colors in the coming days! And lucky for you, these aren't making their way to Indiana and are still available in my shop!