Holiday spirit in full swing

I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving! We sure did! :)

The holiday spirit has definitely filled the house! We decorated this past weekend and I FINALLY got an idea I settled on for the ornament swap I'm participating in. I had a bunch of ideas coming and going all last week and I'm kicking myself because I had them all in my head and didn't sketch any of them for future reference. I do that a lot. Bad habit!!

I finally came up with something that I think meets all of my own requirements. I wanted ornaments that were different, mailable (didn't want them to arrive crushed) and I wanted to use an unexpected material. I thought a lot about sewing something but like I've mentioned before I'm no sewing expert and just the thought of the production process stressed me out. I'm good with my hands and I'm good with an x-acto knife so I stuck with that. These are some shots of my process so far. I'm waiting for a second color of paint to dry now so I've done more than I'm showing you here. I hope to finish them tonight and hopefully mail them out in the next day or two. A few more pics are here.

I feel like such a slaker!! People have already mailed out their ornaments and here I am still in the final stages of mine. I will meet the deadline so I guess I'm OK! ;) If you'd like to see what everyone else has worked on check out all the wonderful ornaments here.

BTW I have a new interview up on Crafty Synergy. I took a little break last week because of the holiday! ;)

Illustration Friday - Thanksgiving

It's been a crazy week but I've managed, really quickly, to do a little something for this week's IF. It's a combination of vector art, hand drawn illustration and scanned texture/fabric.

Thanksgiving is about being with family and what better way to do it by sharing a great meal together... We're going to my parent's house this year so I'm sure it'll be delicious! :)

Christmas tree cards

My Christmas tree block print cards are up. I was over thinking my previous designs and scrapped a couple of them because I wasn't happy with the way they turned out. I wanted these cards to be simple and a little different then my other illustrations. This design wraps around to the back of the card and the ink is actually a dark forest green (it looks black in the photo doesn't it?). They are available in sets of 8 cards and matching envelopes.

A Little Hut cards on HGTV!

I missed it!! I had no idea that my That's Clever show would rerun today! Did someone catch it? I was vacationing out of the country when it ran in the summer.

I've been crazy busy starting all sorts of projects, sketching others and rethinking others. I'll be back with pictures before the end of the week.

I hope everyone had a great weekend! :)