New Christmas Items - Holiday Designs for Tile Coasters

In my last post, I wrote about the tile coaster project for the holiday and damask papers I have for sale in my Etsy shop.  I can't begin to tell you how cool I think this project is.  A lot of craft projects come out looking like just that - craft projects.  The end result of this one is fantastic, and it's sooooo easy and economical.

Anyway, yesterday, I created some holiday designs specifically for tile coasters.  Without further ado, here are the listings:

http://www.etsy.com/listing/87143413/printable-pdf-of-christmas-holiday

http://www.etsy.com/listing/87143886/printable-pdf-of-christmas-holiday-holly

http://www.etsy.com/listing/87144391/printable-pdf-of-christmas-holiday

http://www.etsy.com/listing/87145041/printable-pdf-of-christmas-holiday

Why, hello there

Happy after Thanksgiving everyone!  Did anyone go shopping on Black Friday?

It's been forever since I've posted anything and for that, I apologize.  I got a part time job at a Halloween store, so was working my 40 hour day job, plus about 20 hours a week at the Halloween store, and *somehow* didn't have much free time!  The last couple of weeks have been spent alternately vegetating and preparing for the holidays.

I took this week off from work, and wouldn't you know it... I caught a cold.  Which is weird because I have been mostly at home this week, and the whole time I was working in the Halloween store, riding the light rail to my day job and mingling with customers at my night job, I didn't catch anything.  And yet the one week when I am sequestered at home, I get sick.  Life is funny.  But I guess it's good that I have this week off to be sick in because nothing is worse than having to work when you're sick.  Um... actually, a  lot of things are worse.  But I digress.

ANYWAY, I do have some Christmas items in my shop, mostly gift tags and Christmas cards.

http://www.etsy.com/listing/82077600/custom-printable-christmas-card

http://www.etsy.com/listing/82078619/printable-christmas-gift-tags-winter?ref=v1_other_1

http://www.etsy.com/listing/83984709/printable-christmas-gift-tags-square

http://www.etsy.com/listing/82052136/custom-printable-christmas-card

http://www.etsy.com/listing/83915172/printable-christmas-gift-tags

http://www.etsy.com/listing/83983550/printable-christmas-gift-tags-square

http://www.etsy.com/listing/82055851/custom-printable-christmas-card

http://www.etsy.com/listing/82075593/printable-christmas-gift-tags-with?ref=v1_other_1

http://www.etsy.com/listing/83985680/printable-christmas-gift-tags-with

http://www.etsy.com/listing/87113409/custom-printable-christmas-card

http://www.etsy.com/listing/83988016/printable-christmas-gift-tags-blue-and

http://www.etsy.com/listing/83986375/printable-christmas-gift-tags-square

And I just recently posted some printable decorative papers, which can be used for scrapbooking or cardmaking, or whatever other project that you can think of that uses decorative papers.  Included are instructions on how to make pretty tile coasters with decorative paper and tiles from a home improvement store.  This project is really cheap and easy to make.  I bought some tiles at Home Depo for something like 15 cents each.  You use modge podge (or diluted craft glue) and an acrylic sealer.  This is the finished product:

Pretty nice, right?  A stack of four tied in a ribbon or some raffia or twine makes a beautiful yet economical Christmas gift.  A shout out to Jordan who told me how to make these.

Anyway, here's the listings for the papers:

http://www.etsy.com/listing/86991055/printable-pdf-of-damask-paper-and

http://www.etsy.com/listing/87004852/printable-pdf-of-holiday-paper-pack-with

I also have a listing for custom monogrammed paper to make monogrammed tiles:

http://www.etsy.com/listing/86993494/custom-printable-pdf-of-damask-paper?ref=v1_other_2

Now let the Christmas season begin!

"Vote" for me!

Please go to The Graphics Fairy Brag Monday and "like" my link towards the bottom of the post (#40, Printable Halloween Party).

To see my Halloween Parties, please scroll down my blog here, or click these links:

http://pixelsandposies.blogspot.com/2011/09/new-festive-parties.html

http://pixelsandposies.blogspot.com/2011/09/monsters-and-witches.html

Clip Art Search

I'm currently working on some Christmas stuff and have been looking for some clip art.  I ran across this image on The Graphics Fairy.  On first glance, I thought the angel on the left had just punched the angel on the right in the face.  Peace and joy!

Monsters and Witches

This next Halloween party has a cute monster theme.  My friend Deb drew most of the monsters, I added a jack-o-lantern and a witch.

I think they're so cute!

I used one of the patterns from Graphics Fairy again, 

but changed the colors to shades of yellow.  You can see it in the background of the invitation.

http://www.etsy.com/listing/80837463/cupcake-toppers-wrappers-monster-mash

The third party is what I call the Pretty Witch party.  I wanted something a little girly, so I imagined a witch who likes shoes and pretty accessories.  I drew all of the illustrations in Illustrator.  I also used a damask pattern that I drew a while back for something else and used a purple color scheme.

http://www.etsy.com/listing/81131524/cupcake-toppers-wrappers-pretty-witch

The potion bottles on the left on the invitation were modeled after some perfume bottle clipart that I found on The Graphics Fairy.

New Festive Parties!

I know, it's been forever since I've posted anything.  Sorry!  Since my last post, I have made three Halloween parties and a Fall/Thanksgiving invitation & tent cards.  Here's the first Halloween party that I created:

http://www.etsy.com/listing/80141605/printable-party-package-halloween-party

For that one, I used a lot of vintage images, mostly from The Graphics Fairy Blogspot.

For the invitation, I used a Victorian House from The Graphics Fairy:

Took it into Photoshop, isolated it, darkened it, and added some glowing windows:

Then I took some trees and put them behind the house.

I also took a Halloween type design (also from Graphics Fairy) 

and redrew it as a repeating pattern in Adobe Illustrator to create a border for the invitation.

And voila!  Here is the invitation:

I also used some other patterns from Graphics Fairy

And redrew them in Illustrator to create some backgrounds and borders for the papers, tent cards, cupcake toppers, etc.

(I added the spiders :o)

I hope you like them!

I'll be posting about how I created my other parties in the next few days, so check back!

http://www.etsy.com/listing/80141605/printable-party-package-halloween-party

Shop is Back, New Listing

I’ve been extremely busy for the past 5 or so days, so I haven’t been able to properly blog, but as you can see from my previous post, the Pixels and Posies Etsy shop is back on line!  My son fixed in about 10 minutes what I had been trying to fix for several days.  Humbling, but oh well, at least it’s fixed!

I have a new item in the Etsy shop, a birth announcement.  This one was actually designed by my friend Deb.  I think it looks great and is very cute! 

I will continue posting Deb’s designs in my Etsy shop, as well as my own.

I am going to be pretty busy for a while getting my files back on my computer and organizing, but I have lots and lots of ideas, so hopefully I’ll be able to post some new party packages soon.  Stay tuned!