Fair Bliss animation

This is an animated banner that I made of a cart moving across the screen. I haven't made any animation before this and I'm trying to learn how to do it. Firist I made the cart drawing in Illustrator and made the animation in Photoshop. If you want to have an animated banner please contact me.

Best Wishes,
Lynnette

Butterfly Birthday Invitations

I updated my little butterfly design. The first cute ladybug was hot pink and yellow hearts but no one bought that design and it expired in my shop. I decided to update the colors and design so this is what I came up with. Someone said to me the other day when commenting about one of my designs that it looked old. Well that stuck me like a thorn. So now I'm trying to do more research as to what is new and hip and what people are buying in designs. If you've seen any hip designers send me a link to their website. I will not allow my designs or myself to be old or outdated.

Best Wishes,
Lynnette

Party Hats

I was thinking what made my kid's birthday party really fun and one thing we did was to make the party hats together. Here is a party hat design that I made last night up to go with my invitation designs.
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Butterfly - Calendar in a Box

Make a calendar in a box for all the things you must remember to do all the year long. When do we get the pet's shots? When do we change the filter in the furnace? When does the car need the oil changed and the brakes checked again? When is Aunt Connie's birthday? Just write birthdays and important info on 3x5 note cards and place them in a box with these pretty monthly dividers. You will be organized with all the things you must remember to do every month in one place. Plus I've also made a sheet of lined 3x5 cards to write on. http://www.myartbylynnette.biz/store/c23/2014_Calendar.html

Stargazer Lily Invitations

One of my favorite flowers it the stargazer lily. I used to have them growing in my old garden. Today I plan to order some lily bulbs right after I post this. I was waiting until we bought our own property to plant a garden but after 2 summers of no garden I miss it too much not to have one. I hope you enjoy this invitation with this new stargazer lily design. It is pretty for any occasion. Wouldn't you love it for your birthday?

Best wishes,
Lynnette

Math Skills - Frog and Dragonflies

I have started to make some educational card games with my designs for the girls to play with. The first one I made on Saturday was the Frog and Dragonflies. Count the dragonflies flying around frog and match the number with the number on the puzzle pieces. We had great fun playing with this one. The next one I am making is about matching words that rhyme.

Hedgehog Balloon

Hedgehog Balloon - ACEO Original Watercolor with Embossing 3.5 x 5
Yesterday I got out some of my embossed paper and made some little original watercolor paintings. They are fun to draw while I play with the kids. So between drawing one or two lines I play pretend with the girls, walking around the toy animals and speaking their funny little conversations. "On no," says pony "Hedgehog is floating away on a balloon. Where is she going? You say to a tea party with ferret! Hey everyone, let's get our balloons and go with her to ferret's tea party! Away, Away."

To get this delicate embossing, the paper is first soaked and placed on top of the metal plate of my design. Two wool blankets are placed over the paper and it is turned by hand through my etching press. Then the paper has to dry sandwiched between blotter paper and wood overnight.

Look for new ACEO original watercolor cards daily at my etsy shop.

Best Wishes,
Lynnette

Zebra watercolor painting

My baby girl is always asking me to tell her a story. So I wrote up a story about a baby giraffe taking a nap. One of the pages called for an illustration of a zebra so I painted this beautiful creature a few weeks back. I just got around to making it into a note card designs. My next project is to put all the paintings together with the words and get a copy of the book printed out to read at nap time.

Lovey Safari - Invitations

Introducing the new Lovey Safari design! TaDa
I have been thinking about making a cute jungle animal invitation and card set. I've made some drawings in my sketch book last week and I worked on it all day and here is the result. My favorite animal is the zebra. She' s so cute! Which animal is your favorite? My baby girl, (she's 2) says she likes them all but the elephant. Some are harder to please than others. So back to the drawing board to try to get a design that baby girl gives the 100% "Yes I like it mom".

Frog Birthday Party

Today I made this Frog Birthday Party Invitation from the funny little frog I made a few weeks ago. My favorite part is the whispy grass. I think it turned out nicely. I haven't been selling many stationary sets but the children's birthday invitations are still selling. My guess is that moms are not buying things for themselves but making sure the children have happy birthday memories even if the economy is not so great.

I also made up a new banner design for my blog and etsy shop today. Let me know if you like it or think of any way to improve it.
Best Wishes,
Lynnette

Easter Chicks

Sunny yellow is for springtime chicks, ducklings and daffodils. I had fun painting these Easter chicks. When I was a child, I had a pet chick that was named Peeper. He was so fluffy and cute just like these paintings. One spring, my dad ordered a box of baby chicks through the mail. A whole box of sunny yellow chicks arrived for us to care for. We kept them under a heat lamp in the barn until they were big enough to be on their own outside. They ate yellow corn meal and drank water from a glass jar with a glass tray. I hope you enjoy these springtime chicks.

Spring Deer

Thursday we had a snow storm. I hope our little ladybug we saw on Wed. found a warm place to stay out of the storm. Today, Saturday, I saw 3 large female deer run through our front yard. They came and were gone so fast. Running north. They were very fast runners. My daughter kept asking," Where were the deer going?" I hope it was someplace where they could find some food. It was much warmer with about 1/2 of the snow melted.

We played outside in the snow and built a snow bear, instead of a snowman. We also built a snow castle by packing snow into pails and dumping them out to make the walls.

I painted this little picture of my girls floating away on a balloon with pink rabbit. Imagine what fun adventures they will find. Oh, to be free to go travel anywhere you wanted to go explore.

1st Ladybug of Spring!!

Guess What?? We found our 1st Ladybug of Spring today!! My 5 year old was digging in the dirt under the evergreen tree when she found a ladybug. she was a very bright deep red with three small black dots on each wing. She was a friendly little lady and allowed us to hold her in our hand while the ladybug walked up and down our fingers. The ladybug visited with us for about 10 minutes and then took flight and was gone last seen flying east.

When we came inside everyone drew pictures of our ladybug friend. The girls were excited about going outside tomorrow to see if we can find the ladybug in our yard again. It was only about 40 degrees and we had a light snow this morning but it melted by lunchtime.  Here is the link to my ladybug page of birthday invitations http://www.myartbylynnette.biz/birthday-girl.html