Congratulations to Morgan, who recently commented on one of my videos and won herself a personalised printable notepaper set with a matching envelope. These are now hers to print out as many times as she likes, and send to her friends and family. This design was drawn by hand with black pen on paper, and then digitally coloured. I also made this into a drawing video, which includes some photos of our little garden, the inspiration for the flower design. You can see the video below. If you would like to see more of my printables, visit my shop.
The finished personalised notepaper with matching fancy envelope.
Watch me design Morgan's prize in this video. There are also a few photos of my garden as well. Don't forget to comment, thumbs up, share and subscribe...every little bit helps!
Emails are nice and all, but don't you just love to get something in the snail mail once in a while? I don't mean the sort of mail that starts with 'You owe us...', but one that is sealed in a fancy envelope, with beautiful handwriting on the front, addressed with your actual name, not just 'To the householder'.
You open the envelope carefully, slide out a card with a happy image on the front which makes you smile, open it up, and read a message from someone you know.
Even though I am addicted to checking my email like most people, I still always find myself attracted to the card stand at the stationary shop, especially those sparkly ones with glitter on them, they are my favourite.
I love stationary in general and everything that goes with it...notebooks, writing paper, cards, envelopes...I remember receiving gifts of writing paper sets with matching envelopes, and never using them because they were just too beautiful to write on...did you do that too?
I have designed quite a few stationary related items which are available as printables in my shop. One day I would like to offer them as physical items already printed and made for customers, but for now printables are more practical for me, living all the way down here in New Zealand it is a bit pricy for postage charges. Printables are great, because people can print it out on the paper that they prefer, and can usethe design as many times as they like, and you don't have to pay for postage! If you are anything like me, you perhaps wait till the last minute as you are ready to walk out the door to go and visit someone, that you wanted to give them a thank you card. Perhaps it is a holiday and all the shops are closed...not to worry, just print off a card, fold, glue, write, seal, and Bob's your uncle!
Making the 'Three Little Trees' printable card is a pretty simple process, but I thought it would be fun to make a little video showing how to make it, and what it looks like at the end. I also included a very teeny tiny surprise...make sure you watch the whole thing to see it!
Today I decided it was time to do a little bit of promotion for my printable colouring book 'My Happy Flower'. I'm im in the process of finishing a very short 'sneak preview' video and for the the M.Mosquito You Tube channel.
I took the sneaker image and couldn't resist doing some good old fashioned colouring in of my own, so that I could film it and include it in the video. The book is based around a little story in which a flower grows in a shoe which has been forgotten by its owner.
I broke out the Prismacolour pencils (ahh they are so soft and lovely to use) and got shading. There is something so relaxing about shading, even when it is done at 2am when the kids are asleep. I got a bit carried away, but it was a lot of fun.
Maybe I went a bit overboard with the dark tones, it turned out looking a bit heavy, like one of those tacky concrete flower planters you find in some people's gardens with mold growing on it (no offense to anyone who has one in their garden, they are very stylish...no really :P)
Watch this space, the video will be ready soon (when my computer starts behaving itself again and lets me finish it)
Anyway you can grab a printable copy of the colouring book to use as many times as you like from here. I reckon its a bit of a bargain, really, for only $5.50 (I mean, what can you get for 5 bucks these days?) But then that's just my opinion :P
An example of one of the printable writing papers.
Even with the convenience of emails, you would be surprised at how many people still like to use the old fashioned writing paper. I have had many requests for different types of writing paper in my shop, so I designed a couple of new ones, and people are quite specific about what they want to write on when they request something special. One of my customers used my writing paper to print off and write in her daily journal. Other people like to use them the traditional way and send them in the snail mail. It's kind of nice to think that someone is using my writing paper to write a personal note to a freind or loved one....ohhhhh :))
The example in the picture features a picture taken from my colouring in book.
You can see the whole range of writing papers here. Stay tuned for more, I'm planning to do lots of these...maybe some more with envelopes too :)
