New earring cards in progress!

In preparation for a craft show at Village 631 next Wednesday I've decided to revisit my earring card designs as well as other packaging materials to try to develop some sort of cohesive brand/look for my artsy stuff. I've always been all over the place when it comes to exactly what sort of look I want to go for. Just trying to figure it out.

Potato stamp results

I made these for a class project and thought I would make cute little teapot and mustache faced designs. So fun!. I wanna make more. They work so good on fabric. I'll make some pouches out of these or somethin.

X-Mas

x-mas cards

I got a late start on Christmas designs last year due to school overload. Hopefully I will have many more

designs ready by next Christmas, my favorite time of year!

:)

Earrings

in-between work, and school i've been trying to crank out 

some new earring designs. and here's two!! yay. not many at all.

Packaging

From the very start on etsy I've been very excited to do the packaging part of an order. I've always looked for ways to try to personalize the yellow parcel mailer by drawing or painting on it :) b/c cuz personally I would be stoked to get a package in the mail that somebody had drawn on. Etsy inspired me to go all out for folks who chose to spend their money on my silly "crafts".

 

Anyway, my recent obsession came about when I decided to get rid of the yellow bubble mailer all together and use pages of kids books, geography, geology books, etc. and turn em' into envelopes... It is so fun and inspiring.. and tedious, but it's all worth it! And it's cheap too. Although I do lots of sifting through books, I'll always find some great ones, and from thrift stores and library sales they only cost what?, $2 or $.50. That potentially could be 20-50 envelopes out of one book, when yellow bubble mailers cost about $5 for a pack of 10. The first order I experimented with this packaging on, I was quite skeptical on whether it would hold together or if the post office would even accept it(which they did, they barely noticed.lol). I delayed mailing it for a few days as I was trying to pick the perfect picture to use.hhaa. I was totally ready for negative feedback on this one. But no! The person loved it^-^ with the package being late and all.

Unfortunately, I have not been documenting the awesome envelopes I've gotten out of books as thoroughly as I should. I hope the thrill of doing this won't wear off anytime soon.