The holiday cards are all printed and are up in the shop.  I splurged for the holidays and ordered some icy blue envelopes - I really love the combination of red and blue.

Another design complete!  It was extremely hard to print Christmas cards when the temperature outside reached 20 degrees! Nevertheless, I Gocco’d lots of these “howly holidays” cards on ivory and khaki cardstock for upcoming shows.. and for the shop.

I started printing a series of gift tags as well, but they’re not quite ready. I ran out of steam… and space for drying prints!

These terrier thank you cards were a custom order.  Based on a photo provided by the client, I drew this happy little terrier.  Her collar reads “I’m so excited.” (I’m impressed with the Gocco machine being able to print such fine and tiny text.)

The cards were packaged in a matching drawstring pouch with the terrier design.  I’m so happy that I bought these little bags.  They’re the perfect size.

Last week I headed to the art store to restock on blank sketchpads.  (I used the last of my Orla Kiely notebooks from a visit to the Tate Modern two years ago.)  Most of my inspiration lately has been coming from food magazines.  With the slight drop in temperature, some neighbourhood trees have already given up and changed their green leaves to red.  They’re telling me to get back in the routine of staying indoors and keeping warm with soups, teas and quilts.

At the end of my sketching, I decided to go ahead and print the teacup card straight from the drawing.  (Usually, I go to Illustrator and clean them up first.)

It’s a nice little card to use as invitations for a baby or bridal shower or just for saying ‘thank you’ to a friend.  Best of all … they’re in the shop now.

Slowly but surely.  I am slowly putting check marks beside all the types of cards I am planning on designing. This one is for the mum-to-be. I think it could even be used for shower invitations.

The idea for this print came to me as I was reading last month’s Blueprint magazine. There was an article on fancy denim and featured a denim jumper. Well, move one anchor point on your Illustrator drawing and you go from hipster dress to hot mama.

I’ve just put it up in the shop. (PS: Check out our new shipping prices!)

This post is about using what you have.  Over the last couple of years, I’ve bought a lot of paper and used a lot of paper!  I have also saved a lot of “scraps.”  I knew that at some point, I’d find a way to use up these remnants.

I was thinking of ways to reduce the number of plastic bags I’ve been using for my greeting cards and I thought a little paper wrapper would do the trick.

With my Gocco, I printed up *dozens* of these little bands and let them dry overnight.  I may change up the design a bit so that it doesn’t cover so much of the card… but for now, I’m pretty happy with the results!

Another card completed and added to the shop.  This image caused some trouble due to the solid colour areas.  The first screen that I made didn’t produce a super clean image, but luckily the second one did.  Phew.  I am so happy with the pearly inks.  They add a subtle shimmer to the prints.

The Gocco is busy today!  This morning I printed a series of “crafty bird” cards and prints (various sizes and colours).  Here’s a sneaky peak of one batch drying.