Watercolor Thank You

I made some thank you cards that coordinate with these shower invites.  Using one of my other bird sketches, I added in the bubble/words, printed off at Kinkos, and painted.  Here are some of the final cards:

It definitely passes the Clove test...

Shower Invite

My sister is getting married so I'm throwing her a family shower soon.  I decided to make my own invites to make it a little more personal.  I came up with a lovebird theme and I sketched a couple of birds on a branch for the header.  I just scanned them into Photoshop, sized them correctly, added the words, and printed them off at Kinkos.

Worked my watercolor magic.

These were fun to make because each invitation is a little different.  I also got to play with different color combinations and strokes.

I also found this 'bird on a wire' washi tape to seal the envelopes.

I'm thinking about starting up an Etsy shop and it would include something like this and some other artwork.  It's still kind of a work in progress, but hopefully I can get that up and running soon.

Watercolor

I came across Alisa Burke's blog last week and she is very creative and has a bunch of cool stuff.  I've been feeling inspired by her so I'm trying to get back into doing some more art and sketching, so I pulled out the watercolor to play with.  Here are a couple of the pieces I painted:

and one I framed to bring some more colorful art into our apartment: