Happy Holidays

Before I forget, I wanted to post the animated holiday card we made this year. Wishing everyone a wonderful Holiday Season!

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Featured on Etsy Greetings

For those of you who still check out my blog, just wanted to let you know I was featured on the Etsy Greetings blog and you can view the article here! Thanks for stopping by! :)

Giveaway

Just got back from Costa Rica and I'm having a Giveaway on the EtsyGreetings blog. 

Come check it out!

International Project

I am very excited this week! I will be leaving for Costa Rica in 10 days!!! I can't even begin to explain how excited I am. I was born in Costa Rica and moved to the US when I was 7. We went back every summer the day after school was out and came back home the day before school started up again! So I guess you could say we lived about 3 months in Costa Rica and the rest of the year here. They were fantastic vacations spent at my grandma's house, who I always miss so much. As we grew older, we had more obligations and weren't really able to leave for the summers like before. It's been 3 years since I have seen my family. I saw my grandparents about 2 years ago when they came for my wedding but of course it's never enough and parting is always so hard. So I've been preparing for the trip and making little gifts for my cousins and aunts. They love my stationery and I really like the thought of giving them something I've made especially for them. I particularly enjoyed making one present and that is for my aunt Leda. She is very crafty herself and has started a small business selling her handmade dolls. Apparently, she has quite a following in our little town and I'm very excited to see and photograph her dolls so I can show them off. I figured what better gift than to make her some business cards! So that's what I made her. Here is the design. I am printing and cutting them out now. Hopefully she'll like them as much as I enjoyed making them.

A Wedding to Remember

So I finished a huge project and got permission from the bride to post it. She has been getting fantastic feedback about the invites and keeps telling me everyone is asking who made them. I can't describe how wonderful it is to hear that!

So I had to make 125 wedding invitations in 2 weeks. It was quite a challenge but it has been very rewarding and I took pictures every step of the way to document it all.

All the pieces are printed out here. I printed everything on 11" x 17" paper.

Here are the sheets on the paper cutter and the pieces of matte cardstock I had already glued together to frame the invitation.

Now everything is cut and ready to be assembled!

Here are the invites and RSVPs glued onto the matte card stock. They looked great!

And here are the stuffed closed invitations sealed with the printed bands!

I will be posting the final invitation soon!

New Letterpress Cards

These came out a lot better than I thought. I particularly enjoy the texture of the small oranges all clumped together. The paper is nice and crisp and they just look beautiful. The Christmas card also looks great and I hope to print a couple more that I have set up plates for soon. So, hopefully I'll have some stuff to put up soon!

Tweets

Finally! I've been able to put these up. I know I have again fallen on the bad habit of neglecting the blog but I have been busy working on some cute stuff and here are a couple of photos to prove it. More here.

Enjoy!! :)

Still Working...

So I wanted to share a bit of what I'm doing. I'm working on a small illustrated line of greeting cards based on these two birds I posted before. It's going pretty well I think. At least I'm pretty happy with it so I decided to share another one of the illustrations. 

My Etsy Store!

So I've updated a lot more than I planned this week but it's been quite an exciting week! I just set up my Etsy store!  Here's a peak at one of the items I posted... I am very excited so definitely stop by and check it out here!