Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Package mock up stuff!



      I've been wanting to do actual mock ups with my pattern design forever-- and now that I have my printer I can! This was for a birthday gift. I used one of the corgi watercolor illustration I did in the past and made a vector paw print and made a pattern with them.
      I actually printed out another sheet with just paw prints to put on the inside part so the brown kraft paper doesn't show but I guess I forgot to take the picture;; oops



        This was a birthday gift bag I made (for a different friend). I hand lettered happy birthday and added some cute polkdadot or bubbles~
       I used inkpress matte 60 so the paper was nice and heavy enough to hold (the gift itself was super light though) and thank goodness I had pink tissue paper to match the ribbon!

(Those dinosaurs are my bed sheets haha.)




        February was SUCH a slow month for me.  I couldn't get myself to work on anything! I would doodle everyday but I couldn't get myself to work on anything else... so I came up with a challenge for myself: One pattern a week!
      I have a really bad habit of not being able to work on anything until something is finished and I basically didn't want to work on any current projects -- which is why I ended up doing nothing most of February.  So I'm going to try to break that bad habit and make myself work!
   So starting March I should be updating this blog once a week! Yay!

Tuesday, February 4, 2014

Etsy shop!

I set up my etsy shop January 2013... Finally one year later I started to list items!

I've been looking into it a lot actually-- how to promote, what I should do to get more views, sales, etc.
It's actually a lot of work. But it's been keeping me busy so I'm hoping to keep this to motivate myself to create even more.

Valentine's Day is coming up so I put up all my Valentine's Day cards!

https://www.etsy.com/shop/HarukaIllustration

check it!

I also updated my twitter and blogspot.  Finally refreshing things since the new year and feeling really good!