Skunks in Love and a Caffeinated Hedgehog

I've been doing some illustrations lately. I've actually really been enjoying it....well other than the whole editing thing that takes forever. I thought if I drew with just black it'd be easy to edit, but I was wrong. 

These both are now made into cards and will be up on my etsy shop. Of course they won't have the red lettering on them. Currently they are blank cards, but if a customer had some thoughts on a good snippet to put inside, it can be arranged. 

I've been feeling the on-coming season change and am willing it to be here even sooner with my inspiring drawings.

DIY Envelope and Cards

I've made a few doodles lately that I have made with the intent of making cards out of them.  AND I actually have.  Here is one doodle and three options of text (thanks to my friends on facebook who liked my facebook page)

 I hope it was otter this world.

 I am otterly astonished!

 ...I miss floating around with you.

I have been printing two to a page of 8.5x11" paper. With my new printer I can actually print things that have no border which makes figuring out image sizes a lot easier.

However I still needed envelopes. I checked online to see what size would best fit and found that the size is actually an A2 envelope. It is sized just large enough for half a piece of paper folded in half.

I checked prices and even looked for a template but the ones I found were not large enough, or I had to pay/sign up for something to get them (blech!). So I took it upon myself to make my own template that I could print out and cut out myself. It is 8.5x11" so if your printer prints without a border just print away.  However you may need to do some math to crop it properly and print if you can't print without borders.

Download Template

Just cut to the inside of the black lines and fold along the dotted lines. Glue the larger tab to the small side tabs only up to where the long angles begin, then once your card is in, fold the top tab down. Notice there is no dotted line by the top tab, that is so that you don't have an ugly black line visible when it is opened.

This is the up-side-down view of the envelope template....I am too lazy to change it on the computer since it doesn't matter when you print it! I know it is nothing fancy and you can make one just as nice, but it's already scanned in and ready for printing for whoever doesn't want to waste the time to make their own. ENJOY!

And if you would like already made cards visit my etsy shop!

Horsing Around

I was given some amazing gifts from my parents for my birthday this past month. Pretty much anything of value that we own comes from one of the sets of parents. Mine gave me a fantastic printer, and my in-laws got me a matching scanner (that can even scan film!! so freakin' sweet)

I was also commissioned in the past month to do a horse painting for a friend. The original is the green/teal one below, but thanks to the use of my nifty scanner and photoshop skills I can now do prints of all different hues!

The original above, a photoshopped version below. So now if anyone desires a horse of any color, I can provide prints.