Pick Your Color! Dahlia Garden Wedding & Bridal Shower Invitations

My Dahlia Garden wedding series is now available in 8 delicious color options!
SUMMER SALE - 15% OFF!!! (limited time only)

NEW Dahlia Garden Wedding Collection

Wedding Invitation & RSVP in Dahlia Garden Orange

I'm so excited to finally be offering wedding and bridal shower invitations, featuring my best-selling original dahlia graphic illustration. I've lost count of the many requests I received for just such a line so if you you know someone who loves flowers and is planning a garden-themed wedding, please pass the word along!

Wedding Invitation & RSVP in Dahlia Garden Pink

Bridal Shower Invitation in Dahlia Garden Orange

Bridal Shower Invitation in Dahlia Garden Pink

A Good Day!

On Thursday, 2/18/2010 I was SO excited to be featured on our local NBC affiliate, "Paula Sands Live!!!" It was just the icing on the cake to celebrate my first wholesale account with The Green Thumbers, a gardening center and gift shop in Davenport, IA. To view the video clip from the show, click on the image below.



Here are some photos of my display at The Green Thumbers

(Full Display)

(Cards Sets)

(Journals, Notebooks & Gift Tags)

(Art Prints)

Check back soon for a future post on how I got my first wholesale account and TV gig!

Early Bird Sale!!!

Take advantage of these great savings to get a head start on your holiday shopping! Hurry, as these deals will disappear soon after the leaves stop blowing...

2010 Modern Art Calendar

It's finally done, well the art part anyway. Putting a new calendar together is a lot of work - the pressure of producing something "fresh", along with getting all the dates right in time for the holiday shopping season is intense. I typically begin designing it in mid-summer, with the goal of finishing by October. Last year was the first year I'd ever done a calendar, so ALL the artwork was new. This year, while I've mananged to design a few brand new pieces since the end of the Christmas rush, there was no way I could have 12 virgin designs ready to go for the new one - I'm not a factory, thank you very much - so I had to tap deep into my creativity for a solution. I'd toyed with a few unexciting sketches, before the idea came to me while I was working on another project. I'd started designing patterns, to be background images for some new artwork and suddenly I got a flash of inspiration (yes, it really does happen). I wondered what it would look like if I zoomed in on portions of my existing designs and did a little rearranging. After a couple experiments, I fell in love with the "new look". I find it abstract, yet intriguing and I tried to choose shapes and colors that I felt told the story of the seasons. Perhaps the story will be just a little different for each person that looks at my calendar and that, I think, is a beautiful thing.

Now, I just have to fill in all the numbers, still a daunting task, which is why I'm offering my new calendar as a pre-order for a limited time, while I work to get all the dates in place (checked, double-checked and triple-checked - thank God for Google Calendars!) for the new year. Through the end of July at least, customers can get my 2010 calendar at 60% off the price it will retail at when I officially debut it in October, saving them money AND the holiday-rush hassle with the post office. Don't you just LOVE Christmas in July?

NEW Baby Announcements and Shower Invitations!

I've been toying with the idea of starting a Baby line for a while and I finally had some time to design these this week. I am so in love with them and I can't wait to add more. The best part is they are available as digital files for those times when you NEED IT NOW.

Thinking Summery Thoughts

I am so excited to be able to offer this new line of Mini Dahlia Notebooks. They were created in response to a customer who requested my original regular-sized Dahlia notebook (the pink one) in different colors and smaller. I had not thought to experiment with the colors or the size until she contacted me, but I am so happy with the results. I love when someone tosses me an idea out of the blue and I am able to run with it. Sometimes we artists find ourselves in creative "ruts", which is where I must admit I was at the time my customer contacted me. Any "jumpstarts" are always appreciated, so don't be afraid to ask an artist to do something for you. They will probably be delighted!