Finally!  After a bunch of problems and headaches and troubles, my shop is finally fixed and working like it should, so I can continue my 70% off sale that got cut short.  I’ll be running the sale through the end of October to make up for the time it was closed.  PLEASE email me if you have any trouble downloading your purchases or with navigating the shop itself.  It seems to be working perfectly, but you never know when it’s going to get quirky on you!  lol

I also have a little freebie for you.  I was in a mood for pumpkins today.  I haven’t started decorating my house for Fall yet (I know, I’m so behind on everything, I’ll get right on it!) but I was at my mom and dad’s last night and their house is beautifully decorated for Fall, so I was inspired this morning to do something to get me ready to get my Autumn on!  haha  Just click the image below to download the pumpkins.  

Thanks for stopping by!  Have a great week!

Just a quick note about my personal use kits – I’m working on getting everything moved over and once that’s done I’ll reopen my shop and resume the 70% off sale.  I didn’t think it would take this long, but we ran into some snags.  I’ll send out a newsletter when it’s ready, though.

And I have an Autumn-ish freebie today!  Some tags that could be used for journaling or printed out and tied to  little treat bags, maybe?  Anyway, just click the image to download!

Thanks for stopping by!  :)

So this isn’t so much about science as it is about experimenting, but the end result was sufficiently science-y, I think.  A few days ago I was doing some random tutorials that I found online and I ended up really liking the end result of one of them.  (You can find the specific tutorial I did here.  It’s for Illustrator.)  My end result didn’t turn out quite like it was supposed to, but hey, I’m a beginner, gradients confuse me, and I’m just glad it looked recognizable.    After making some cute notepads with them I thought I’d go ahead and give them away here on my blog in case any of you have need of shiny test tubes!  lol  Just click the image to download.

(Their actual size at 300dpi is about 3.5 inches.)

Have a great weekend!

This past week I’ve been spending a lot of time trying to learn Illustrator (which I saved and saved and saved for and FINALLY was able to get, YAY!) and do a little experimenting with it.  I think my designs generally tend to lean toward cuteness more than any other style and while I don’t want to get stuck in a rut where that’s ALL I do, I think that if you’re comfortable doing something and it works for you, then you should stick with it.  So I’ve been doing a lot of research lately keeping the question “what is cute?” in mind.  Tonight I started out simple and drew a panda, because pandas are naturally cute anyway.  Kind of hard to mess that up, except that my panda wasn’t all that cute to begin with.  I didn’t save my original image, but I wish I had so that I could show you the changes I made.  In the journey to cuteness, my panda received shorter, fatter legs and arms, a very round face with low features and a high forehead, a round, round tummy, and sparkling eyes.  He was definitely much cuter by the end!

Anyway, I made him into a couple of stickers.  I thought he might be a good freebie since black and white pretty much goes with anything, right?    Just click the image to download.

Hope you like him!  Have a great weekend!