June 17, 2009
DIY: Seedling Kit Favors – Project Wedding
June 13, 2009
let your inner goth ’shine’ ;)
Today I meddled with illustrator…
Zahir named her, by the way. Oh he so witty~ >_<
June 3, 2009
font love } Burgues Script
How gorgeous is this font? It just flows beautifully… Intricately flourished and yet it is still legible. It does not look like all the other script fonts out there. It’s like handwritten calligraphy by someone with amazing penmanship.
Actually all of Alejandro Paul’s fonts are incredibly gorgeous. Check out his collection here. USD$395 for 5 quality fonts? Y/N? If I had the dough, I would get this in a heartbeat.
Right now I’m just drooling over Burgues Script. USD$99 is pretty steep but I don’t mind forking out a little more for quality. Maybe if my little etsy business starts raking in some dough, I might buy this. For now, I’ll just stick to my Bickham Script Pro which has served me well.
image source: Veer
June 2, 2009
correspondence
I am slowly breathing life into my etsy shop.
Very slowly actually. I guess it will take some time before I can get back into the swing of things after not designing for so long. Today I made two simple personalized stationery sets.
delicate flourish stationery set
classic vintage stationery set
I realise I keep going back to pinks and teal or robin’s egg blue. I need to get out of this habit and be more adventurous with colours.
June 1, 2009
Hortus Floridus
The book I ordered from Amazon.com arrived today! It’s gorgeous. I can’t stop flipping through it every chance I get. I should be working 
A Garden of Flowers: All 104 Engravings from the Hortus Floridus of 1614 (Dover Pictorial Archives) (Paperback) by Crispin van de Pass
My favourite flower is on the cover. Peony love!
The engravings are so intricate and delicate I am so inspired to create something today. Over the busy weekend, I had some time to myself and I created 6 Thank You flat cards. I printed these on cartridge paper because that was all I had. I think one of these days I have to drop by Art Friend and purhase cardstock.
Soph gave me contacts for a printer who can help me create letterpress prints of my designs. I hope it will fit my small budget. I was actually contemplating in buying a letterpress machine on ebay but that’s just crazy talk unless I win me some money.
oh these are bad pictures. I need to practise my photo-taking skills.
May 29, 2009
getting started. again.
Recently, I re-activated my etsy shop and started uploading some printables. I joined etsy as a shopper a few years ago, then decided to sell some graphics on the side. I think I created less than 10 and sold 5. hah! It didn’t last very long, I was concentrating more on uploading my vectors on stock websites.
Everything took a backseat during my final year in school and when I started my first job.
Even though I switched from graphic design to arts adminstration 5 years ago, I still find myself going back to it time and time again. I love churning out illustrations and I can spend HOURS just playing with fonts. I bought myself a tablet with the intentions of creating digital illustrations because I can only do so much with my basic mouse. I have only created one completed work so far (please see previous post), I usually stop halfway because I am never happy with what I create. Zahir thinks I should stop being such a perfectionist about my art but I can’t help it. Years and years of adminstrative work just killed whatever creativity I had in me.
Now, I find myself going back to design and illustration again. This time I’m going to make sure it won’t be a one-off thing. My etsy shop will open and will stay open.
May 25, 2009
hello
I know I promised to update this months ago. Well I shall attempt to resurrect this blog again. I haven’t logged on to wordpress in months but I can see that I have a steady stream of visitors from my Livejournal which died years ago…I wonder who’s been clickin through here…
I am at work now. It’s only 330pm. 4 more hours until I leave. I really can’t wait to go home and open my illustrator because my hands are itching to create something. I was bloghopping some art & design websites and I just feel so inspired to create something pretty. The illustration above is my most recent piece. Actually it’s more of a digital doodle. Zahir was at my place and I was showing him how amazing Corel Painter is, so I doodled a little something for him using my tablet. It took me 20mins or so? I guess that’s why it’s looking a little rough.
He loved it though and it will be the cover of his first EP 
December 27, 2008
daisy baby
I haven’t created any new vectors lately. This is a quick one. Maybe after February, when all the stress is long gone, I might churn out more.
