Class of 2016...freebie!

Congrats to the Class of 2016!!!

My daughter is graduating high school this weekend!

I am so proud and we are throwing a big party!

This freebie would make a great banner...save, cut, print and glue to jute/string!

*Please note that all freebies are for you to use to make a couple finished goods (no mass producing) and a couple gifts...they are still legally my designs.

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Here is my daughter Selina!

Her high school colors are black and orange (love it!) and her cake and decorations will be those colors too. 

This is my one and only so I protect this little chick like crazy....but I am going to have to let go soon.

She is going to learn from me...lots of computer classes and art...plus learning home based business. 

So excited about her own laser cutting business.  Some of her products are pictured below.

She has an Etsy shop called: SelinaHudsonDesigns...which has all her jewelry, blanks and finished items.  Plus she sells through Checker Distributors.

Plus she has a photography etsy shop!

She is well on her way....a very productive young woman.

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Have a fabulous weekend!

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Ticket flower hair clip tutorial...FREEBIE!

Today I am very happy to announce that my daughter, Selina, has made a cute FREE ticket flower tutorial...

She shows how to make these cute flowers above...that are so cute with a barrette or hair clip glued to the back.

Come watch and we would love it if you share the video.

Here she is wearing one.

These are some of her amazing photo's....they are in her Peacock Gumdrop Etsy shop.

I love our Bleeding heart...I planted it near my favorite kitty who passed away a few years back.  Her name was Sally.

This barn she took while driving to Leavenworth....a German style city.

This photo was printed in a magazine......she was very thrilled about that!

Alot of these have won blue ribbons at our state fair.

This is Selina last year.....she is also very good at sports.

She loves duck tape....these are rings....she has made backpacks, pens, wallets...and more.

She made collages from her photography too.

It gives a nice idea of what she likes to take.

She has made many duck tape dresses

She paints alot....this is Katy Perry on brown paper.

Her paper dress won lots of awards at the state fair.

Selina holding a frame....I am extremely proud of my lil lady!

Thanks for coming by today!!!

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Bunny clip art...& more

Hey everyone!

Hope you had a wonderful St. Patrick's day...

It is a strange holiday in America when you think about it.

But I will take all the holidays....gladly!

I have been making some clip art...in adobe Illustrator.

I made "Spring has Sprung"... all the 13 png files are shown above....

each design is in a separate file of their own file. The backgrounds are transparent. 

These are high quality files.

There is a bunny in frame, gray banner, green banner, words"Spring has sprung", Chick breaking out of an egg, "Easter", Flowers, mint flower, green egg, yellow egg, pink egg, leafy frame, and pink and white tag.

Just to show you what you can do....

Here I put the several of the files together on a painted chippy background photo my daughter took.

I use this free photo editor when layering. 

In this one ...I took a scan of an old ledger paper and laid a couple of my images on it.

I gave it a scrappy white border....using the photo editor.

This set of clip art is called "Lovey Dovey".

It has 8 different png clip art.

There are a bunny mama and her kid, a coffee cup, hanger with hearts, heart with flowers, a squiggly frame, retro TV with remote, single flower, and a cute cat throwing hearts in the air.

Here I laid the bunnies on a scan of scrapbooking paper...this would make a cute card. 

This one...I painted a simple heart on old music paper...then laid the cat image on top.

Using the photo editor...I added a scruffy black border.

This is a digital print I made (using my clip art and my daughter's photography)....available in my etsy shop.

I thought it was so cute....it needed to be a sign print.

My needle felted eggs make a great photo prop. 

I watercolored.....and then added digital elements to make these two signs...

greens and pink in this one. 

Red, pink and blue for this one.  They came about by playing and learning skills.

This would make a fun anniversary gift.

Whoa...the sun just came out...looks lovely....

Have a great rest of your day!

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Little joys give us our wings...

Do you believe in fairies?

 This glittery gal is inspiring and uplifting! Such a charming embroidery project....so quick, easy and fun to do. Finish the embroidery in a hoop. Perfect for the little girl in your life and your own home decor.

This new pattern is in my Etsy shop, my Patternmart, and on my website (if you prefer a printed and mailed pattern).

Finished design in hoop measures: 10 3/8" x 10 3/4"

Embroidery design measures: 6 5/8" x 7 1/4"
This was a blast to stitch up....really got my excited about spring!

Here is a little springy goodness...

a collage of my daughter's flower photography.

Selina is 17, a junior in high school and has her own Etsy shop called

Peacock Gumdrop!

She loves to take pictures of nature and also of buildings...

especially old buildings and barns. 

She is my one and only....so proud of her!

Take time today to relax....I practically have to schedule it in now....yikes.

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My sweet lil girl

Recently my sweet lil baby girl turned 17!

I can't believe it!

Seems like yesterday we were strolling her around.

She had a wonderful birthday and had lots of fun. 

We went to the fair on Saturday...and she won a Special grand award for her paper dress made from vintage dictionary pages.

It fits her as well.  She is very artistic and talented.

She also won awards for her photography.

Here are some of the photos she won blue ribbons for...

a digitally enhanced starry night -church

 

Her very popular barn

 

The pink cone flower (my fav!)

Her black and white flower

 

Lucky the cat....

Multnomah falls too

All her photos are in her Etsy shop!

 

I entered 4 paintings and won 4 blues...I am a happy camper too!

The theme of the fair this year was the Wizard of oz.

I wanted to share a wrist pincushion I made featuring the wizard of oz fabric.

Sweet isn't it!

Any favorite fabric can be used in this pincushion pattern

Like this cute lil girl fabric.

I gotta pick up our goodies at the fair now...my daughter is going to help me.

Try to enter something in your local fair next year...it is fun and believe me...people want to see your creations!!

 

Business advice asked

Hi!  I was asked for some business advice about my patterns and I thought you might be interested too!

A sweet lady was getting into selling patterns on etsy and wondered about how I came up with prices and asked for any advice about selling on etsy.

 

I encourage you you all to start an etsy shop....I love etsy! It is great for people who sell their finished work too!

 I love creating a pattern design once and then have the capabilities to sell it forever. I never liked making a whole bunch of one item anyway.

I like to keep my price in a medium range....not too low or people will think it is not good or a low quality item.

Also, not too high because people have a lot of expenses and they will simply say no to a high priced pattern. I would rather have have a lot of medium sales than a few high priced ones.

Instant download is the greatest....no sending the file because etsy does this for you....and no shipping or printing! Although this is just on etsy and sites like this. 

I print and ship lots of patterns too depending on the business.

Getting a following is important....people need to know about you...blog, facebook, tweet...or whatever.  If they don't know about you or your items.... they won't come...it is as simple as that. 

 Enter submissions into magazines....they pay and are great to spread the word about you and your designs. Join link parties if you blog...they get other people to see your stuff.

One more thing that is super important....or you won't make many sales. Pictures are extremely important! Take good pics with no flash and not in direct sunlight. I made a light box from an old box to take pictures in. There are all kinds of tutorials on this on the internet. If the picture is gorgeous...it will sell your pattern.

Take a pattern or several that you have at home and really look at it.  See how they style a picture, cover, supplies, info, instructions, and patterns.  This gives you lots of ideas for how you would like yours to be.

 

These are just my thoughts and opinions...made from my point of view.

 

I hope you follow your dreams....it is getting easier and easier for home based businesses now!

 

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So many ideas....come get them!

You probably know that I am part of the Deflecto design team by now....so excited about it!

Deflecto is a great company that  provides all your solutions to stay organized so you can concentrate on your projects not your clutter.

I want to share my final frame projects with you.

The above picture is my Jewelry display....great for your bedroom to hang your necklaces on or to display necklaces in a craft booth.

For this sweet Jewelry holder..I used the big 12" x 12" frame. I added my favorite scrapbooking paper. Then clipped my old clothespins to the top. The necklace hangs on the clothespins...by a loose knot in the chain.

I used the magnetic frame as a message board of inspiration. The barn photo is my daughter's photography and I added some wheat.

This is a business card holder made from two frames....3" x 4" and the very tiny 1 1/2" x 2". I taped them together at the bottom. I added an atc card I made that says "Bloom". The small frame has a bit of pink paper where I stamped "Take a card".

Another angle of the business card holder made from two Deflecto frames.

I used the Pink 8 1/2"x 11" frame and added my digital art sign. The saying comes from Les Miserables. I added vintage ribbon flowers.

I love using little bits and pieces that I have been hoarding for projects like these.

I have shown you this before and the following, but I just wanted you to see the whole group of them together.

This one is my raggedy Ann watercolor painting in the green 5" x 7". I added a little scrap of fabric to the lower corner with an even tinier scrap of muslin with the word "Cutie" stamped on it. The scraps are sewn together and then glued on (I taped so I could use the frame in another project).

So simple! 

I love frames because a lot of what I do involves frames....like my digital signs I make and sell on Etsy.   This is my "Home of the free because of the brave" sign in the stand alone frame. 

 I added some tulle rosettes and a small paper banner to the bottom.

Here is a Halloween watercolor of a scarecrow. This is in the purple 5" x 7" frame. I added my flash card (I design flash cards too) that says "Scarecrow" and also added fall leaves. So easy.

Another very simple project.

I really love the large pink frame! Here I put a watercolor print of mine in the frame....and added a paper streamer rosette...with a vintage paper punch circle and a decorated bottle cap.

The bottle cap has a floral image and pink glitter. I added the words "Be Kind" to the rosette. This would be so sweet in a little girls room.

This is my mom (she's has been gone almost 17 years now) and I thought she would look great in the black 5" x 7" frame.....sort of retro. Her pic was taken back in the 50's. I punched out some scalloped circles, stamped the letters for mom on them and then glued them onto a pennant shape made from pretty paper. I glued them onto ribbon and then attached to the frame.

I love going through my papers to see what fits best. 

Here I took one of my drawings on brown craft paper and just added layers of black stringy yarn to the bottom with a vintage button.

The magnetic frame is so nice for the fridge....nice strong magnets! I just put one of my calendar pages inside....so very easy.

The 3" x 4" frame is great for artist trading cards....I put one of mine in and added a little tea dyed muslin banner. The banner is stamped with stazon ink (pad)...I used the word "Cutie" and then added a line a glue around the banner and sprinkled with glitter. After it was dry I just tucked the banner in the side of the frame. 

Here is my daughter Selina's Photography ....a beautiful Sunflower.
We put this in the 8 1/2" x 11" frame with pink border.....love Pink! I added raffia around the frame and a sweet tag saying "This is the life!"

I love raffia...especially with fall coming.

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Please take a peek at Deflecto....and I hope you have a wonderful day!

 

 

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