little prince

I couldn't do a Princess illo (for last week's IF challenge) without doing a Little Prince to go with her, so here he is. He'll be included in the prints I'll be selling at Paper Tales in San Diego. I almost have everything ready to ship! Yay! I wish I could ship myself down there with the prints. Sunshine and 80 degree weather sounds fine to me!

birds and trees

A little birds and trees illo to share with you today. This image will be part of a series of art prints that I will be selling at Paper Tales in San Diego, when it opens on May 1st! (More on this later when I have everything ready to go) It's a beautiful spring day here in Seattle, so this is perfect to post today! Tweet tweet!

IF - homage (to little princesses)

Here's my entry for this week's Illustration Friday challenge, illustrating the word "homage". This is an homage to all the little girls who dress up like princesses and parade around the house with their magic wands. It's such a fun stage for little girls..they quickly out grow it and are on to other things, like soccer and boys. So, this is for that moment of time when imaginations run wild and the world is a playground for pink tutus.

paper tales

I just finished this fun project for the lovely Michelle White of San Diego. She's opening a retail store and needed some marketing materials for it. So, I designed this postcard, some business cards and a blog banner for her.

The store is going to be a blend of all kinds of fun things...mostly paper crafting materials
(decorative papers, stamps, supplies to make cards and scrapbook pages) and also cool vintage finds. I thought a birdcage would be a good symbol for such a store and Michelle agreed with me, so off I went from there and this is the final product. The store will also use the design on bags and things like that as well.

If you live in San Diego, you'll have to go check it out...after it opens on May 1, of course!

A Muse window - let it rain!

It was time to change the window display at the A Muse retail store after Easter, so we decided to celebrate what Seattle is probably best known for - rain! So, I created a large version of our Seattle girl stamp and painted her coat, hat and boots that fabulous yellow slicker color. I couldn't resist painting her hair auburn...because my daughter has auburn hair! It also looks good against the yellow! Then, I made "rain" out of A Muse notecards and hung them with fishing line. Each row is actually a chain of raindrops, tied together with the fishing line. It turned out pretty cool! What I really love about it - when someone comes in or out the door to the shop, the rain flutters in the wind!

IF - pet peeves

For IF this week...Cat is peeved that Dog has tracked in mud on her newly washed floor. He's headed for the Doghouse!

dunkin donuts contest

I entered this in a contest over at Dunkin Donuts for a Mother's Day gift card. There's one for Father's as well, but I don't think I'll have enough time to do both, so I chose to do the Mother's. I have an idea for the other one, but not the time!

I don't expect to win, but it would be cool if I did because the prize is 500.00 donated to the charity of your choice. How cool is that! I'd pick Autism Speaks, because they are doing such great things to raise awareness of autism and to raise money for much needed research.