Honey Bee

I had this design for a honey bee in my sketch book for some time. This little honey bee is just buzzing with excitement to be delivered to your sweetie for Valentine's Day. This is a design for a 5 x7 or 4x6 custom photo card that is personalized so you can print them off at home. Just e-mail me your photo and how you want the card to read. The same design can also be used for Birthday Party invitations, Baby Shower Invitations, Bridal Showers, or Birth Announcements. www.MyArtByLynnette.biz

I also made this little bumble bee that was inspired from a vintage jewelery pin that I saw. A happy little bee delivering hearts to all your honeys.

Printable Custom Photos 4x6 & 5x7

I finally sat down and put some of my designs into custom printable photo formats. These fun designs can be for Valentine's Day, Party Invitations, Baby Announcements and cards. Just e-mail me your photo to be used and I send back a printable jpeg that can be printed on your home computer or at your favorite photo finisher like Walgreens or Wal-Mart. I have seen some prices as low as 6¢ per photo, so you could print off 100 cards for as low as $6.00. All of my designs can be made into custom photo cards.

Best Wishes,
Lynnette

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My Tricycle - Printable Party Invitations, Small Gift Card, Note Card, Stationary PDF set

Memories of the first time I rode my new tricycle is one of my favorite memories of childhood. You can spread the joy of riding a new tricycle with these note cards, party invitations, gift cards, and stationary. They would be perfect for your next party ! See it at www.MyArtByLynnette.biz
Today is also the First Day of Office for President Obama. We are looking forward to seeing it all on tv with much joy and celebration!!!

Best Wishes,
Lynnette

It's a Cupcake Party!

For Valentine's Day one year it was my turn to bring the treats to the 4-H meeting. My mom, sister and I baked and decorated the most beautiful treats. We mixed pink and red frosting that we spread on so carefully. I was so proud. They looked just like the ones you buy from the bakery.

Have your own Cupcake Party without any frosting mess. Plus they are all calorie free. You have Note Cards, Party Invitations, Valentine's Cards, Stationary and Note Pads to enjoy. These happy cupcakes would be perfect for your next party or just for writing a shopping list on the note pad.

Princess Stickers

These are my new designs for the royality in your family. Your little Princess will love them. My princesses really like them. There are 48 one inch circles for stickers, two note cards and and envelope.

see them at www.MyArtByLynnette.biz

Printable 2008 Calendar

I put together a calendar of my floral watercolor paintings today. I have them listed at my etsy shop www.MyArtByLynnette.biz

I really wanted to do something with all the little florals that I love to paint. I hope people like them as much as I do.

All the Best,
Lynnette

Christmas Designs

Today I finished the Happy Santa design, at the top for stationary, note cards and gift tags. I am still trying to make one design per day and post them at the etsy shop.

We have also started doing more exercise together as a family. Today we went outside and jumped rope and worked at doing pull-ups. My muscles are sore but it is good. I want to get back to the shape I was before the babies were born.

It is a nice sunny day in Colorado today and not too cold.

Saw Barack Obama today, Made My First Sale!

Today we left the comfort of the mountains at over 6ooo ft and went to the lowlands of Pueblo, Colorado 4000 ft to listen to a speech by Michelle and Barack Obama. It was a sunny, warm, beautiful fall day. Perfect for a nice drive. There were thousands of people that came to see the next president. We were so far back in the croud that we could not see him except for a small figure on the stage. in the photo the stage has the USA and Colorado Flags. Only 3 more days and the new president will be decided. What a relief that will be to end all the political junk mail that we have been getting in the last weeks. We already went and voted on Thursday. The line was crazy as it took 2.5 hours to vote.

I did some drawings in the car for some new holiday illustrations for the stationary sets. I drew a gingerbread man, gingerbread lady, cupcake, birthday cake, bell and a holiday teddy bear. Now I just have to get them drawn on the computer.

The biggest excitement of the day for me was that I sold 4 printable stationary sets! It was my first sale of the illustrations that I started to make this week. Also It was my first sale on www.etsy.com I want to make at least one sale every day. I am already planning the house that we will build with the money.

Best wishes,
Lynnette

New Stationary Sets

Spread some joy and cheer with my new stationary sets. The above image is a stationary sheet of the Star Bunny design that I made today.

I love all the cute illustrations that I have seen on stationary and note cards. Now I am taking the time to make some of my own designs. My goal is to make one or two each day and buld up a large collection of designs. I am really having fun at making these super cute designs. My daughters even have me making up stories to go with each one. Now, I will have to get the stories made into children's books for us to read.

All of the designs will be printable pdfs of a stationary sheet 8.5 x 11, a note card 5.5 x 4.25 folded finished size, an envelope and a page of gift tags. I don't have the time to do all the printing and mailing out of sets so I thought that I would sell the pdf for personal use only and see how that works. If you would like to see a design of your favorite image contact me and I will make one up.

I told my daughter that these designs are going to help us build a new sthapatya veda house. Please purchase a set to help start the new house fund. See all the new designs at www.MyArtByLynnette.biz

Best wishes,
Lynnette

Happy Mahalakshmi Day

Wishes of prosperity, health, wealth and wisdom to everyone in our world family. We enjoyed a wonderful, warm fall day here.

I finished the painting Rose for Durga on Saturday. I am happy with how the rose turned out but I think I went a little too dark on the right of the background and covered up too much of the lace pattern. I guess next time I will be more careful. I darkened the red on most of the petals and made some of the shadows darker on the left. I did add a bit of yellow to the highlights which made it look much warmer.

Below is how the painting looked with all the lace pattern painted in.
Let me know what you think? Next, I will be making cards of the rose for sale at my etsy shop.

New Look on Etsy & Ice Cream Shop Toys

Today I am working on a new look for my Etsy shop with some tips that I got. What do you think I should change to make my shop look better?


Today, my daughter was looking through the toy catalog and wanting to buy a toy ice cream shop. Well, we didn't buy it but we made the toys. I sewed some small scoops of ice cream in different colors and flavors. Pink for strawberry, blue for blueberry, a printed fabric for a scoop with sprinkles on top, a dark red for raspberry, white for vanilla, and yellow for banana. I also cut up an empty water jug, rolled it like a cone, punched holes in it and sewed it with yarn to make toy ice cream cones to put the fabric scoops in. We got our ice cream scooper from the kitchen and had a fun day playing ice cream shop all day long. We will be playing ice cream shop for many weeks to come.

Work on background

On Tuesday, I worked on the background. I was able to finish painting the lace circles on left side. I used three colors, the red, pink and purple to make variations of value in the lace. I also had enough time to draw the lace circles with my pen on the right side. After I finished drawing all the lace on the right I noticed that I had drawn the circles much smaller in scale on that side than on the other. It's funny how things can turn out so different when you work on a painting from one day to the next. When I had drawn the left side lace, I was in a big hurry so the circles got a little big, than on Monday I was much calmer and not so rushed so the drawning was smaller and more detailed. When I was younger, I liked to try to finish a painting in one day so that the painting and drawing would be more uniform in treatment.

The girls were very helpful while I was painting. I put on some of their favorite music and they sang and danced while I painted. My youngest, 2 year old, even put on a performance of her interpretation of a guitar player. She sat in her little chair with the kitchen broom as her instrument. It was so precious how she was moving her little fingers to the music. I wish I had a movie recorder to capture it.

A work in progress

The painting is called Rose for Durga. I started painting it on Friday and worked on it some on Saturday to get it to the state that it is now. For the background I have started a lace tablecloth pattern. I am trying to do a little different effect of saving some very light areas for the highlights and going very dark in the shadows to make the flower pop. Usually I would glaze the whole flower like I have on the left side, but I have saved the withe paper the right side with much lighter colors and cooler in hue with more of a purple tint. The left has a warmer color with rich reds, yellow, and oranges. Do you think this is working or should I glaze the whole flower to the same as the left side?