My latest holiday /new years ecard features a painted animation of the New York City skyline. Click on “play movie” to watch the animation.  Send your own personalized version of this card for FREE on my website.

Just added to my shop - a printable paper garland for Christmas with a motif of diagonal stripes and dots in cranberry red and sage green. Make your own custom holiday garlands with this Adobe PDF file, embedded with the Adobe Typewriter tool. This tool enables you to type your letters directly into the file. Simply type, print, cut and fold - make as many as you like. Drape over a string or ribbon, securing the inside of the triangles with a bit of tape. Each triangle measures 2″ (50.8mm) wide by 3″ (76.2mm) high when folded.

Recently added to  my shop, these printable holiday gift cards feature a dreamy hand-tinted b/w photograph of a Christmas ornament in shades of fuschia, gold and robins egg blue. Write your personal notes inside the cards and use them to adorn wrapped packages, bottles of wine or jars of homemade goodies. This downloadable sheet includes 4 folded cards, each measuring 2″ x 3″ (50.8mm x 76.2mm) when folded.

I just added these printable place cards to my online shop.  While I created them with Thanksgiving in mind,  they would  work with any autumn dinner place setting.  The PDF  file is embedded with the Adobe Typewriter tool, which lets you type in your guests names directly into the digital file.  Save the file to your computer - print again and again.

My new Blue + White 2010 Printable Desk Calendar was featured today  in Decor8’s 2010 calendar roundup!  Yay! For those of you who aren’t familiar with Decor8, it’s a gorgeous blog about interior design, art, photography, craft, fashion, food…a  daily feast of visual inspiration.

This delicate little necklace was made using my coral + turquoise watercolor 1″x1″ collage sheet.  It’s quite easy to do.

Here’s a list of what else you’ll need:

1. Heavyweight inkjet paper or lightweight card stock to print the collage sheet.
2. Mod Podge & a foam brush.
3. A 1/16″ hole punch
4. Scissors or paper cutter
5. An ink pad in a color that coordinates with the collage sheet (I used an aqua shade)
6. Jump rings (5 mm size) and a pre-made chain necklace (aprox. 16″) - I purchased these from metalliferous.
7. Needle nosed jewelers pliers

To begin, print out your collage sheet and paint the whole page with one coat of Modge Podge.  Let it dry.

Cut the collage sheet images into strips and trim the outer edges.  Then use the Mod Podge to adhere the strips back to back so the images face out.  Then cut the strips into squares.  You’ll end up with squares with an image on both sides.

Press the edges of each square into the ink pad to fill in the white edges of the card stock.

Coat each square on both sides (one side at a time) with another coating of Mod Podge and let each side dry.  I used wadded up pieces of aluminum foil to lift the pieces as they dry, so they didn’t stick to my work surface.

Lay out your necklace on your work surface and move your squares around until you have a design you like. Use the 1/16″ hole punch to puncture the edges of the squares.

Attach the squares with the jump rings to the pre-made chain necklace.  Voila, you’ve made this necklace!

My artist friend Barbara Hart recently made this drawing of my little Westie, Jake.  I think it really captures his Terrier spirit -  devilish and sweet at the same time.  You can see more of Barbara’s pet portraits at her website.

These colorful fall-themed napkins are elegant and easy to make using my printable fall leaves collage sheet.  Perfect for Thanksgiving or any other fall event.  All you need are inexpensive light-colored cotton or linen napkins and printable fabric transfer paper for lightweight fabrics.  You could print these on anything really -  place mats, table cloths, coasters, pot holders, aprons or pillows for instance.

Instructions:

1. Print my “Fall Leaves Printable Collage Sheet,” available for $2.99 in my shop onto fabric transfer paper for lightweight fabrics, available at craft & art supply shops.
2. Cut out the leaf shapes and place them on your cotton or linen fabric, playing with the layout to work out your design.
3. Iron the leaf shapes onto your fabric according to the fabric transfer paper manufacturer’s directions.
4. That’s it!  Enjoy your fall leaf napkins or give them as a gift.

I just added this dance themed PDF printable wedding invitation to my shop. Perfect for black and white wedding themes, these invitations have a Robin’s Egg blue overlay on which you can type your own text and print as many copies as you like. The invitation is a 5″x7″ flat card which fits standard A7 envelopes. Of course these could also be used as rehearsal dinner invitations, anniversary invitations or even as ballroom dance party invitations.

This Mother’s Day ecard is whimsical, elegant and tasteful - a fresh alternative to the usual ecards.  It’s also absolutely FREE to send.  In the spirit of spring, it features a mother with her baby robins & a blossoming cherry tree.