Some New Things in the Etsy Store!

I have made lined envelopes! I hand cut and mounted these printed cardstock liners into some lovely sunshine yellow envelopes. I'm working on making my own envelopes, but the biggest challenge I'm coming across is the proper paper weight for the actual envelope. Cardstock is way too heavy, and the lighter paper I found on a roll is much too light. I need 12x12" sheets of a midweight stock... dilemmas.

The cyclops card came into being yesterday, after I messed up cutting out another silhouette. His eye profile turned into a bulge.. and thus, cyclops was born! His card is the first (of many??) with rounded corners.

Since I was so busy printing out the dessert cards, I realized, I could vary the colors and make some lovely gift sets. These two are slightly different, but both come with 4 cards total. The pink cupcake card has two turquoise cards and two bubblegum pink cards. Comes with a beautiful blue mailer box.

The Sassy Ice Cream card comes with a variety of 4 different colors, cream, muslin, hot pink, and blue. The set also comes in a beautiful blue mailer box.

Visit the shop to see the new items in action!

www.hikaridesigns.etsy.com

Illustration Friday SOAKED

Elliot, soaking wet.

So I didn't quite make last week, but I woke up early this morning thinking about the new topic, soaked. Yesterday I went for a walk downtown, and saw a mom with her two sons. They were clambering around her as she tried to herd them to the escalator. The youngest son, Elliot, balked as soon as he reached the top of the escalator. He screamed, ran backwards, and his mom picked him up while holding her other son's hand.

"Oh God Elliot, you're soaking wet!"

Elliot had wet his pants. I don't know if it was due to his fear of escalators, or the fact that he's two... but either way, Elliot was, in fact, soaking wet.

FREE SHIPPING in the Etsy store

For the very first time, I have created a Free shipping code to use on all domestic orders in the Etsy store.  The coupon code is FREESHIP (real original) and is good until July 1st.  I am hoping it will attract some new buyers... Nobody likes to pay shipping anyway!

Moses' favorite card is the "He loves me, loves me not" card.

Illustration Friday is a-coming.

I found Illustration Friday, a neat little website that gives a weekly illustration idea, and the chance to upload it to the site for comments. You post the illustration on your own website (ie, this blog), and voila, people click it.  I'm hoping people click it.  And... I'm hoping I draw, too. This week's theme, SAFARI.  After the recent additions to my sketchbook in the form of desserts, zombies, and Stefhan's grandfather (it just came into being...) I'm hoping this will be just what I need.

Not Stefhan's grandfather...