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By: Aaron Blecha,
on 7/7/2016
By: Debbie Ridpath Ohi,
on 2/9/2016
I'm heading for NYC for the SCBWI Winter Conference and meetings. If you're on Twitter, you can follow the action via the #NYC16SCBWI hashtag. If you see me there, please do say hi!
Happy writing and illustrating, all!
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By: Bowie Style,
on 2/9/2016
This Sunday will be Valentine's Day so with just a few days left to purchase cards I have collected together a round-up of some of the designs spotted by P&P. First up are these beautiful and romantic designs from Noi Publishing. This sweet designs below are from UK card company - Stop the Clock Designs. These sophisticated and stylish designs below by Postco, Steph Baxter
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By: andrea joseph,
on 2/1/2016
Nora and George.
I drew Nora maybe three years ago. George is much more recent. I always wanted a companion for Nora and a couple of weeks ago I brought George to life. Both were based on two well known fascinating characters in the history of tattoo art. Nora Hildebrandt was considered the first tattooed lady and toured with the Barnum & Bailey circus whilst George Burchett had an equally amazing life and went on to become a world famous tattoo artist who even tattooed royalty.
By: Bowie Style,
on 2/13/2015
It is my final day of featuring Valentine's designs. Today we have the super cute card publishers Liz & Pip. Designers Liz Smith and Pip Griggs always come up with some colourful and stylish designs like the large heart made of little hearts above. Liz & Pip also have some new floral designs for spring on greetings cards as well as packs of blank notecards. See more from Liz & Pip online here.
By: Bowie Style,
on 2/12/2015
These gorgeous heart designs are part of Caroline Gardner's 2015 Valentines collection and feature on gift wrap and bags. I have also picked out several Valentine cards which can found in stores all over the UK and overseas. I couldn't resist posting some of the latest designs on everyday greetings cards and notebooks which feature a fabulous mix of clean lined geometrics and bold painterly
By: Bowie Style,
on 2/11/2015
Today's first Valentine's designs come from UK card publisher 'Think of Me'. They have used their clean and contemporary style to create some bright heart based designs. I also picked out a few of their other card designs as I love their colourful graphic style. Think of Me's cards are sold in big stores and independent gift shops in the UK and internationally.
By: Bowie Style,
on 2/11/2015
The Art Group have some lovely watercolour designs by Margaret Berg suitable for any occasion, and a 2015 Valentine’s Day collection that features quirky ink typography from artist Jade Walsh, plus cute illustrations from the popular range Cherry On Top. The full collections are available online here. And from sister company Paper Rose comes this owl design (below) by Clare Tupper
By: Bowie Style,
on 2/11/2015
The Rifle Paper Co. and it's wonderful designer Anna Bond are a company that have been real trendsetters over the past couple of years and have influenced a whole floral and typographic style. But the Rifle Paper Co. was where the whole look began and here are some of their Valentine designs for 2015. If you happen to live in Los Angeles look out for their pop-up shop which opens on Friday and
By: Bowie Style,
on 2/10/2015
Just in time for Valentine's Finnish fashion company Ivana Helsinki have produced a range of tea trays and notebooks featuring various heart designs. The company was founded by Paola Ivana Suhonen a designer artist and filmaker from Helsinki, and you can see the whole collection online here. Not part of Ivana Helsinki's valentine collection but still well worth a look here are a
By: Bowie Style,
on 2/10/2015
And for our final Valentine post today we have some brand new designs that have just been created by Victoria Johnson. Available now for licensing or commissions Victoria recently joined the newly opened agency Jennifer Nelson Artists. If you like the look of these artworks you can see more from Victoria's portfolio online here.
By: Bowie Style,
on 2/10/2015
Today we start with some of the gorgeous new arrivals at UK card company Noi Publishing. Designer Tracy Francis has produced some really beautiful florals, sweet cats, and cool typography on cards and wrapping paper for her 2015 collection. And for bold and quirky Valentines cards look out for these from Noi Publishing featuring a fun cat design and cool hand drawn type.
By: Bowie Style,
on 2/10/2015
It's day two of looking at Valentine's Day design and we start with UK high street fave Marks & Spencer. They had a mixture of cute or graphic designs in store for 2015 and my particular favourite was the heart pattern above using a subtle colour palette of warm grey, pink, mustard, coral and purple.
By: Bowie Style,
on 2/9/2015
And here is a little round-up of some more Valentine's cards spotted in stores. Starting with Tesco who had several modern typographic designs. And a few designs seen in book store Waterstones. and finally three designs snapped in WH Smith... Read the rest of this post
By: Bowie Style,
on 2/9/2015
This coming Saturday is of course Valentine's Day and the stores are now full of cards, gifts, and wrap. I have had a browse around the card designs at Not on the High Street to pick out a few highlights, so if you have yet to buy or design your Valentines then here is some inspiration. We start with a fab modern geometric designs above and below from Mulk. And below : arrows and lovebirds
By: Bowie Style,
on 2/8/2015
If you are a publisher, studio, or company in need of Valentines artwork then you might like to know that designer Faye Gollaglee has a selection of designs available for licensing or commissions.
By: Bowie Style,
on 2/8/2015
And still on the subject of Valentine's Day here are a few lovely cards spotted for sale on the John Lewis website.
By: Bowie Style,
on 1/28/2015
After yesterday's sneak previews of future releases today we get back to Paperchase's current designs. February 14th is of course Valentine's Day and cards have already begun to appear in the shops. Paperchase have a wide selection of designs from sketchy humorous doodles to cute characters, such as these penguins above who also appear on gift mugs. Here are my pick of the Paperchase Valentine
By: Debbie Ridpath Ohi,
on 2/14/2013
By: Mary Lee,
on 2/14/2013
By: Bowie Style,
on 2/13/2013
happy valentine's day! i think this may be my favourite valentine card spotted this season. snapped in marks & spencer its a neon pink scandinavian style design with metallics on natural card.
By: Bowie Style,
on 2/13/2013
it's valentine's day and i have a final round-up of card designs to post. the first three designs, including the lovely one above by jane ormes, were spotted and snapped in waterstones. below : printable valentines papers from em papers. below : valentines cards snapped in uk supermarket tesco. below : unfortunately in asda this year there
By: Bowie Style,
on 2/13/2013
if there was one valentine's card that really made me smile this year it was the one above from designer danYELL which showed simple originality and wit. danYELL is the studio label of freelance designer danielle cassells who graduated from the duncan of jordonstone college of art in 2006 specialising in printed textile design. she loves to design greetings cards and digitally printed fashion
It's the cutest book, Mary Lee, and so are your students' haikus. They must have had great fun writing these.
Very cute Haiku's by your students. I wish they did more poetry in school.
I'm waiting for this book from our library, since you first wrote about it. We did some haiku writing today, inspired by this post. Thank you to you, and your students, Mary Lee!
Happy Valentine's Day : )
Lisa
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Such a lovely haiku happy valentines day :D
Your student's poetry really made my day!! They are so clever!