strawberry shortcake girl

I ate a lot of cake in the past few weeks and now I think I have to stop myself before it gets to my weight which is not good!

This may be on my upcoming Etsy item along with my little roll cake girl

I think I have to move on to other subjects now. Enough for cake, it just makes me want more!

I really enjoy drawing yummy things though :-P

Little Merry Girls Mini Card Trio

New listing!
I have already added my mini cards in my shop finally. This listing come in trio. Take a look and please tell me what you think.

http://www.etsy.com/listing/52344269/little-merry-girls-mini-card-trio

And remember I still have FREE SHIPPING and FREE BOOKMARK for you. See here

IF : breakfast

Long time no post for Illustration Friday.

Really enjoy doing this. Breakfast is the most important meal but sometimes I get too lazy or sleepy to cook. Wouldn't it be nice to have such magician butler cook for you? :-)

My very first sale!

My very first sale just has been shipped. I'm so excited!

So now it's down to 7 people who will get the chance of FREE SHIPPING and a bookmark from MerryDay shop :-)

little roll cake girl

My latest cute cake series, little roll cake girl. The sketch of this girl had been in my sketchbook for some time until I picked it up and illustrated the other day. I really enjoyed doing this, especially in the coloring step. I did this drawing digitally as usual and I found that using soft pastel colors and a bit similar shades together made it look natural and glowing somehow. My sister said that it looked like watercolor painting. :-)

I have another cake girl to show and still thinking if I should put this girl on my shop as a postcard or 5x5 inches print...

What do you think?

Again, thanks for all comments, I find that it makes me post here more regularly :-)

I Like : I love reading -White and Red Cloud Bookmark

There are 4 things I do whenever I am not too busy with work, reading, buying books, browsing blogs and, of course, drawing. You may wonder: shouldn't reading and buying books be in the same category? Well, sometimes I just buy and buy books and not read them at all, an act you might call books buying addict. I hadn't thought of this kind of addiction much until I realized that most of my books on shelves were unread and in the past 3 months, I had spent so much money on books. So, I decided to prevent myself from buying more books as much as I could. The best way is not going out at all, which is quite easy as I work at home :-)

But now that I think I can save money on books, I encounter a dilemma here with Etsy. You see?...as long as I don't go out, my money wouldn't fly to bookshop for sure but for Etsy, it takes a great effort to resist the beauty of all things for sale over there. With one click and your amount of money in bank account will be smaller.

I fixed that by opening another account that links to Paypal and put small money on it so that I will have some kind of budget whenever I think about buying anything.

I don't think I'm a shopaholic. No, not yet ;-)

Anyway, I still love browsing things on Etsy and thankfully, there's Favorite page over there and I can save what I browse and like for future coming back. Here's one of them. A cute
I love reading -White and Red Cloud Bookmark by coccinellerouge



So, I think this post is the first post of 'I Like' section. It will be records of what I find, love and want to buy on web but just not yet. It would be like the period of thinking through before spending money online, I hope :-)

That's it for now. Have a merry day!

Oh! In case you don't know yet. I 'm having FREE Shipping offer on my shop now. Read the details in the previous post :-)

Birthday girls, FREE SHIPPING and the bookmark

I have great news for you today!

First, I have finished my Birthday Cute Cake Girl!
It has been some time since I posted the sneak peek of this girl. I thought a lot of this piece, torn between making it large size or mini card. I think postcard size would be more appropriate for birthday sending but I also like the idea of mini card.

So, I decided to do both :-P However, the mini will come later.
This birthday girl postcard comes first and is already on my MerryDay shop and she has a friend, the cupcake girl! Do you like her?

Actually, I thought of having only the birthday girl. Then I drew the cupcake one and couldn't help falling in love. They look so lovely together. So, I put them as a duo.

As if it's not enough, I added the pretty borders on top and bottom. It was some kind of experiment. I had never used this kind of craft scissors before and it was pretty hard to manage. But I like the result though. What do you think?

Now you can tell how much I enjoyed doing these pieces and I hope you like them too.

And if you like them, I say you should think about buying these cards now because...



Here the second news! ...from now I will give the first 8 buyers FREE SHIPPING plus my 'Home Sweet Home' FREE BOOKMARK, which looks like this:





These bookmarks I drew, printed and die-cut myself. Hope they would be great Thank You gifts for those who support my creativity :-)

By the way, do you think these photos look too dark? I have problems with photo shooting lately. Need to learn more about it!

Thank you for stopping by and your comments will make my day merry!

work in progress

I'm back! :-) and these are mini cards I have planned to do since last month but was interrupted by my work.
2 weeks of book layout and I really missed my little cute girls :-)

This card measures about 7x11 cm. I wanted to make it smaller, to make it really mini but was afraid that it would lose the details. So, here they are.

Since these are not in standard size, I have to make envelopes by hand. This reminds me of the time in art school when I did a lot of handmade stuffs. My hands were pretty sure on cutting and measuring. Now I do my work digitally. Everything is viewed and sent through email and I don't have to do mock ups anymore. Without practice, my hands get stiff and even simple envelope making feels awkward to me.

Anyway, I enjoy doing this little pieces and it will be on my shop very soon along with my b-day girl here

Thanks for stopping by and have a merry day!