My bears are back!
This time on another cute and clever card by my friends at Leanin Tree.
Love this.
Beautifully printed inside and out, on recycled stock. You know I love that. Everything about this makes me smile. Inside it says, "With each year that goes by, I love you s'more and s'more. Happy Birthday!" Hee hee hee. S'more and s'more.
You can find it here, and you can even personalize it here. How cool is that?
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No, really, they do.
And that's the category these cards go in. These 2 cute designs are some of the most recent offerings from my pals at Marian Heath Greeting Cards, and they are gorgeously made. I really love what they've done with my art.
Do I even need to mention the sparkles?
No, I didn't think so.
And this one has a super-neato-but-hard-to-photograph varnish/emboss effect on the daisies. Subtle and pretty, I really love the added texture.
Both designs feature an uplifting scripture and inspirational thought on the back.
Now, if you haven't had enough of reading about me yet this week (seriously!) you should hop over to Marian Heath's Facebook page and show a little Facebook-"Like" love! Today they are featuring an Artist Profile on - drum roll, wait for it - ok that's dumb, you don't have to wait for it and you probably already guessed anyway. It's about me. You might say I'm having a pretty good week so far!
So if you're not already up to here with your helping of Beth Logan for the week, head on over to Marian Heath for a little more.
Thanks, you guys! And thanks to my friends at Marian Heath for the fun interview and over a decade of beautiful cards!
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Hey everyone!
Have you checked out the Henry Glass blog yet? It's a fun place for everything fabric-related, featuring neato projects and quilts and goodies and giveaways. If you haven't, today would be a great day to hop on over to see for yourself.
Why today?
Well, today there is a "Meet the Designer" interview with me! That's pretty cool, right? And while you're enjoying all the fun stuff on their blog, go on back a page or two where you'll also see a "Meet the Designer" interview from January with my good friend Shelly!
In addition to the blog, be sure to check out Henry Glass on Facebook, where you'll find even more goodies, giveaways, and fun stuff.
And finally - I have been waiting to share this with you but will give you a super double top-secret uber-sneaky sneak peek of my new softie flannel fabric coming out later this month, called "Buttercup Babies". . . I can't wait to show you the rest of it!
Stay tuned for more details, here and on the Henry Glass blog, website, and Facebook Page!
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Sparkles sparkles sparkles sparkles sparkles.
Just in case I wasn't clear the first time. I said sparkles. Sometimes I wonder if my licensing partners put sparkles on every single thing they produced with my art, if my head would simply explode from sheer joy. I do love me some sparkles. Someday when I'm queen I may just have to demand that. A royal proclamation. Sparkles on everything.
Anyway, followers of my Facebook page may remember I shared the link to this card by Leanin Tree last month. But today I received the actual samples on my doorstep, and I swooned.
Because of the sparkles.
And the other details that make this an awfully nice Easter card.
You can buy it here. Did I mention it had sparkles?
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...for Beth Logan designs, that is.
I just launched the shiny new Artstuff Ltd. Store on Zazzle (insert fanfare music here, ta-dah)!
Many of you already know about Zazzle - for those who don't, you should definitely check it out. This is a great way for me to offer products and designs that aren't already out there in the marketplace. I'm really excited about this!
The Artstuff Ltd. Store has gallery-wrapped canvas wall art, t-shirts, bags, mugs, and more. I'm still just figuring the whole thing out but will be adding lots more throughout the holiday shopping season, including a special holiday-themed shop-within-a-shop.
I'm especially excited about these:
How cool is that? Hard-shell covers for your devices with my art on them!
I hope you'll pop on over and see what's cooking; "like" the store (you'll see that familiar little thumbs-up button!) and please give me your feedback and thoughts on things you'd like to see me offer there or other suggestions. I'd appreciate it!
And I do hope your holiday season is off to a happy start, ho ho ho!
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So this one might fall under the "better late than never" category, and I suppose I ought to apologize for that. But you know how sometimes you set little goals and to-do lists for yourself in a certain order of how you believe they need to happen, but one tiny detail holds you up for some silly reason and then the whole process falls apart and the entire thing hangs dangerously on the edge of never getting accomplished, ever?
Oh. No, it's just me?
Ok then, never mind.
Anyhoo, as many of you already know (no thanks to me!) The Cat's Meow has been in quilt shops for months now . . . you can still find it here and there on the web, and even some cute quilt patterns here, here, and here. And finally (fanfare, drumroll, ta dat dat dat da!) I have yardage available in my Etsy shop.
Those of you paying close attention will also recognize some of the kitties in this group from greeting cards you might have seen in everybody's favorite gourmet discount grocer, or here on my blog (or Flossie's!).
Most of you are already familiar with my constant studio companion and muse - but did you realize that every single kitty in the collection is modeled by Miss Flossie herself? This isn't the first time Flossie has inspired a fabric group, so I suppose it's not surprising that when Harriet from Henry Glass came to me last year to brainstorm about a cat-themed group, I went straight to my "used pictures from Flossie's blog" file folder and started sketching (these are just a few of the inspiration-photos straight from Flossie's blog).
And all 10 of these kitty pictures are still available as prints in my Etsy shop!
Fitting, but not at all unsual, HRH herself is cuddled up in a blankie on my lap right now, overseeing the writing of this post.
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Happy Halloween Weekend everybody!
You know how excited and gushy I get over a few sparkles. I just can't help myself.
Well my pals over at Leanin' Tree have done it again, they've made another super-cute card with my art and then they added sparkles, quite possibly, just to make me gush about them a little harder.
Or it could be because their design team just knows how to make a lovely product with attractive special touches. Either way.
Really this card is even sparklier and cuter in person! Oh, and did I mention? You can purchase it right here!
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Well, goodies of the greeting card variety.
Once again, you'll find a few of my card designs just around the corner from your Two Buck Chuck! This season I've got 4 in the mix:
There's a birthday card, a friendship card, a get-well card, and a blank one. All printed with soy-based inks on a nice heavily-textured recycled stock. It looks a lot like the watercolor paper I like to paint on, so it's a perfect fit! They really do sell nice quality cards for a great value, not unlike the rest of the yummy products the store is so famous for.
Like my favorite super-addictive crunchy salty snacky roasted seaweed, mmm. Salty and crunchy has always been my weakness, and this stuff - wow. Seriously just as satisfying as a big old fatty bag of greasy chips. I would not lie to you about something as serious as salty snacks. This funny looking green stuff satisfies. Oh yeah.
Anyway, I strongly suggest you pick some up. Oh, and some cards, too, while they last!
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...I apologize in advance.
It's an every-summer pet-peeve of mine, and usually starts about this time of year. We're finally starting to enjoy a little bit of warm weather here in the Pacific Northwest, my Surtex follow-up projects are finally winding down, I can finally start to enjoy my now-in-full-bloom garden and possibly even look forward to a little vacation - and they start.
"Back To School!"
I cringe, every time. And it just gets louder, and more persistent. Sales and events and specials, all created for the sole purpose of reminding me how fleeting this warm and happy little season is.
Don't get me wrong, I am a big fan of Fall. And sweaters. And pretty colored turning leaves. And squash. Stuff like that. I can think of a gazillion reasons I love the season. But for now, really, I'd rather not think about anything but cheerfully chirping birds and delicate fluttering butterflies and warm sun on my face. Aaaahhhh, summer.
But (sigh) this is why I'm apologizing:
I can't wait to show you this, because by the time I'm ready to accept fall- and school-themed subject matter, they could be all gone.
If you follow my Facebook page, you have already seen these. But when I posted that link I hadn't seen the actual product in-person yet - and once again - oh my gosh - I couldn't be happier with the amazing quality and great design, thanks to the nice folks at Publications International (New Seasons). Broken-record time: I loooohoove what they do with my art!
What a great product; it couldn't be simpler to save and document your child's memorable years at school to cherish forever and ever.
From preschool to graduation, there's room for every proud and happy moment.
There are pages and pages of pockets for report cards, special papers and projects, and mementos.
Cutely-designed pages with templates for special pictures and for journaling and documenting memories.
Each year a new school photo is added into the little inserts in the front cover.
And you can find this great product at a Costco near you right now! They might be in the office-supply aisle, but many stores are displaying them on their own pallet in the books section, or near the front of the store. I hear they are going like hotcakes, that's why I wanted to let you know as soon as possible.
Even though it interrupted summer, just a little bit.
Now let's all return to our previously-scheduled not-thinking-about-fall-yet summertime activitites, already in progress.
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And you know what that means in much of the Art Licensing world:
Christmas!
Those of you paying really, really close attention might even remember what I was working on last summer (bonus points duly awarded). And now this summer I can finally share with you what that was all about.
Many of you already know about my genetic obsession with Christmas and decorating for the holidays. My Granddad actually designed and built their family home with holiday decorating and enteraining large groups in mind. The place was a wonderland from November to January, the hum of his little handmade motors buzzing quietly in the background as festive figurines danced, angels flew, snowflakes fell; whatever Granddad could imagine some crazy little decoration might do to make it more interesting, he figured out a way to wire and mechanize it somehow. The whole place moved, glowed, blinked . . . it was truly magical in every way.
And there were elves. Lots of elves. Everywhere. I suppose this, along with the fact that grownups like to tell little children that Santa's elves are "always watching" had a lot to do with my recurring childhood nightmare that creepy little beings were hiding in the tree outside my bedroom window watching me while I slept. But that's another issue for another day. Many of those elves live with me now, and we're all quite happy and peaceful about it.
One Crazy Christmas Eve is a super fun holiday collection full of sweet, friendly elves (not stalkerish at all, really) and oodles of retro style inspired by the decorations we grew up with.
If you follow my Facebook page you probably already know this, but the group is now available at The Fat Quarter Shop (and was featured on their own Facebook page last week).
I can't wait
to make something
with this...
But wait, it gets better: there's actually a storybook in this one. No really, a for-real storybook! Harriet, one of the amazingly creative designers I work with at Henry Glass, wrote the cleverest Christmas story especially for this (what fun this was to illustrate!) and there's a 1-yard panel with the book pages and instructions for sewing your own soft-book! How cool is that?
Um, Flossie, I'm trying to show the people what the book panel looks like.
Please?
On the Henry Glass website there's even a neato quilt pattern - just click "New Free Projects" to download the PDF.
So, in the spirit of the season, Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good summer! Enjoy!
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I know, it's not really. But it will come eventually.
It always does.
Doesn't look much like it now, at least here - and I'm guessing most of you are in the same boat. Looks more like a sugary doughnut outside my window right now. A bitter cold, hard, frosty, grey doughnut. Ok, so winter might be losing some of its powdered-sugar charm at this point, but that's not what this post is about, it's about spring. And new fabric. Hooray spring, hooray new fabric. Those are both nice, right?
My new April Showers collection by Henry Glass is available now at an independent quilt shop near you! With 16 springy-fresh coordinates plus an adorable apron pattern, maybe our dreams of warmer, greener days won't seem quite so distant.
Soon I will have fat-quarter bundles and yardage available in my Etsy shop. Right now, though, an extra computer is occupying the only fabric-measuring-and-cutting space in the house and it will remain there until I am sure I've retrieved all the important data from the tired, crippled old thing and gotten it safely into the new system (good times) but for immediate gratification, you can find it here or here right this second!
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You might remember me telling you that this particular retailer prefers we vendors and licensors don't shout and holler or put up billboards advertising their name, but I did want to let you, my faithful and beloved blog followers, know that this month you'll find a few new Beth Logan card designs at ... er, uh, um ... well, right there on the little endcap around the corner from the Two Buck Chuck.
This time they are carrying 2 fun birthday cards and a cute wedding card. Grab them while you can find them because as always, it's a stock-on-hand thing and you simply can't beat their awesome prices for this kind of quality!
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Samples just arrived of the newest version of the La Cuisine Recipe Binder: the "Deluxe" Binder now available at Barnes and Noble!
Still the same amazing quality product as the others, the Deluxe Recipe Binder is a slightly simpler version from the Ultimate Deluxe that has been selling at Sam's and Costco. This one has a neato detail the others don't though, a coordinating memo pad & little veggie magnets - how cute is that? What a clever (and affordable!) gift idea for the creative cook in your life!
And remember, when you've filled up the existing pages, I've still got your downloadable PDF refill pages that nicely coordinate with La Cuisine and Holiday Kitchen in my Etsy shop.
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So the eaves and window-frames are glowing, Santa's on the roof, the porch-railings are adorned with greenery and ribbons ... your entire home is completely bedazzling, I must say.
But your garden? It might be lying dormant but that's no reason to ignore it. How about a cute holiday garden flag to perk things up?
All these festive designs are available here and several other online shops, as well as at your local garden center.
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It's less than a week away: that day of turkeys and pies and goodies and fixins' ... oh my. The big kickoff to the Holiday Eating Season.
My favorite holiday recipes tend to be scattered far and wide: folded pieces of paper nestled in a particularly wrinkly and stained section of one cookbook or another, cute recipe cards generously shared by great cooks hidden between others cut from old newspapers, magazines, and cardboard packaging, all shoved into a not-so-attractive folder that I may or may not know where to find when the time comes; many that I'd love to try are bookmarked on favorite food blogs ... hopefully I will remember to check my bookmarks when the perfect occasion pops up to wow festive guests with what I was sure at some point would be the most fabulous dish of my dreams.
Wouldn't it be cool to have a place for all the holiday-type recipes you've loved for years or are dying to try?
Well ... check this out!
The clever folks at New Seasons have created another gorgeous recipe binder to compile all those holidayish goodies in one super-organized and beautifully-designed place.
I had a blast drawing all the little goodies for this one (remember this?) and it's so cool to see my art made into such a nicely done product - once again!
With cute recipe cards, pretty pages, fun stickers, practical pockets, even little recipe cards with coordinating envelopes ... what a thoughtful way to share a favorite recipe with someone you love!
You can find these now at Sam's Club, Costco-Canada, and BJ's. Enjoy!
PS: Many of you have been looking for refill pages for your binders. The manufacturer of this product doesn't sell refills for their binders at this time, but I've designed coordinating downloadable PDF pages you can print yourself, available in my Etsy shop! You'll find a "La Cuisine" Recipe Binder refill set there too !
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I will begin this post with apologies to the lovely customers who will buy and enjoy the product I'm about to tell you about. Sadly, about the only phrase I seem to have retained from my high-school French class is the completely useless, "Ecouter la bande!" which was repeatedly shreiked at the classroom full of giggling American teenagers by some faceless woman from said bande.
Of course, what the faceless woman wanted us to learn and remember was whatever phrase followed that particular command, but, well - for the most part, I don't. I have to admit though, considering my own awareness of my extensive lingual limitations I am having difficulty refraining from sloppily sprinkling several more French words into this post and quite possibly setting up a wonderfully horrible Me Talk Pretty One Day moment. I will bite my lip and continue, I promise, completely in English.
Anyway, for those of you much more fluent in that beautiful language than I, there is now a French version of my La Cuisine recipe binder by New Seasons, currently available at Costco stores in Canada!
It's the same great product in every way, except, well ... it's in French! How cool is that?
And when you have completely filled it up with all your fabulous recipes and are looking for additional refill pages, check here!
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Yes, our old friend the Cute Halloween Kitty has returned (remember him from the last few years?) and is making another adorable appearance this season on greeting cards on the Hallmark and Hallmark Connections labels. These cards are a great value, super nice quality and even printed on recycled stock!
Inside reads: "...is one of the best treats!"
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Although my own childhood Halloweens were spent trick-or-treating and then hopping into a warm and cozy bed under lots of covers, I often secretly wished that I could get away with sitting out an entire night alone in some cold - yet extremely sincere - pumpkin patch, waiting for the Great Pumpkin to appear. Or even Snoopy, pretending to be him. That would have worked for me too.
The closest thing I've got to a pumpkin patch right now is a marginally-sincere foot-square mess of a mildewing zucchini plant, and well, after the wimpy growing season we've had (seriously, even the zucchinis were small and few) I suppose even The Great Zucchini will be avoiding my yard this year. Oh well. Looks like once again it'll be warm and cozy covers on Halloween night for me.
But for those of us without our own sincere pumpkin patches, there's always this guy:
This happy little kitty and even happier pumpkin friends (and sincere, did I mention they are extremely sincere?) are available this season as garden flags by the nice folks at Toland Home Garden. You can find them here, here, and here, and of course at your favorite neighborhood garden store.
Who knows, with this flag up, The Great Pumpkin may find the yard just sincere enough for a visit.
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I know it's officially been here for a while already, but on our beautifully misty, foggy dog-walk this morning I noticed that the trees here in my neighborhood are finally beginning to look the part. Pretty soon these subtle little splashes of blush amongst the green will spread like wildfire and every tree will burst with fiery color - I can't wait!
And for an official welcoming committee, there's this cute little not-so-scarycrow and his feathered buddy - available as a garden flag by Toland Home Garden, in a garden center near you and several online shops, like this one!
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