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Creating Daily: Day 11, Even More New Bookplates

Two new designs for the vintage shop... Fairy Godmother bookplates (above) and Baby & Animals bookplates (below). I love them!

Creating Daily: Day 5, More New Bookplates

Okay, I admit it: I'm starting to get a *tiny* bit tired. But I am still inspired! And I have to say, I have a lot of things in the works right now, and that feels really good. You should see my desk... eek...

Blue Flower bookplate (above) adapted from a book so old it doesn't have a publishing date. Boys and Girls from Other Lands bookplate (below). These will both be in the shop sometime tomorrow.

Little Patriots bookplate (above) for the 4th of July, and The Carolers bookplate (below) for the holidays this year. It's so strange to be working on holiday images off-season, but I guess that's when most of the holiday stuff gets made. I've been planning a set of mixed blank Holiday bookplates this year, and this will be one of the designs in the set.

See you tomorrow!

Creating Daily: Day 4, New Bookplates

A little switch-up to digital here! These two designs are adapted from a boyhood book of my grandfathers, the sweetest little orange book published in 1926, with his name, "Calvin" scrawled in pencil on the first page.

These new designs will be in the shop later this weekend.

Vintage Royal Banner bookplates (above) and Vintage Soldier Boy bookplates (below)

 

 

New Packaging

I did a little packaging revamp for the vintage shop's bookplates. It was time: my old packaging was fine, but I wanted something new. I ended up coming up with three different designs:

What do you think? I might end up using all three.

And I am pleased as punch that Apartment Therapy's Ohdeedoh has profiled my shop here! I love Ohdeedoh, it is a parent's delight.

Getting Ready for Valentine's Day

We are getting ready for Valentine's Day over here!

There are three new darling bookplates in the shop, redesigned from cards my grandmother received as a little girl in the 1920's. My grandmother, Virginia Grace Brown, celebrated her birthday on Valentine's Day, so she got more Valentine's Day cards than anyone else... except, of course, for my other grandmother, Margaret Monahan Jones, who's birthday was also on Valentine's Day! 

  

(Left: Basket of Kisses, Right: Wheelbarrow)

  

 (Left: Puppy Love bookplates, Right: Birds and Cupid)

These are sold in personalized sets of 24, or as a blank set of mixed Valentine's designs.

And lastly, I'm excited to have created a Oiseaux gift certificate, when you can't decide what to choose...

I hope you all have had a nice, relaxing weekend... I had a pretty bad cold this week, so I am looking forward to getting back into the swing of things. Art coming soon.

New Prints in the Vintage Shop

I love these! Holiday presents, anyone? (Blue Bird Print above, Fairy Garden Print below.)

Etsy Front Page

 

One of my prints made it to the front page of Etsy yesterday! 

I've had a several inquiries since about the "From Me to You" collage, and wanted you to know that the original collage is available online right now through Three Graces Gallery. It is framed and ready to hang, and is beautiful!

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Update on a previous post: For those of you wanting to stretch some artistic muscles, artist Trudy Callan is hosting a 12-project online workshop based on Shona Cole's book, The Artistic Mother. Three artists from Shona's book as well as the book's designer and the Shoppe Manager of Stampington & Company are part of the 60+ participants. Trudy is still accepting participants, so contact her if you'd like to join in on the fun.

What I've Been Up To

 *saturday*

 

*sunday*

*monday*  

*today* 

1000

1000 sales x 24 bookplates per set = 24,000 bookplates, hand-cut by me.

I would like to thank my brilliant, sage Mac G4, my hard-working-never-say-die Epson printer, my stainless steel ruler that I've had since art school, and my trusty yellow X-acto knife.

And you. To anyone who has ever bought something from my little shop: thank you. 

 

New Bookplates

I found the most gorgeous children's book from 1917, and now there are two new bookplate designs coming to my shop:

 

 

and a set of Blank Mixed Bird bookplates, to boot:

 

Holiday presents, anyone???

:)