Day of the Dead month

While Day of the Dead is traditionally only celebrated for one or two days, I celebrated for nearly a month! I just couldn't settle on one medium for my sugar skull design. I started with the felt pin, then made some paper skulls, and ended with Adobe illustrator to make my buttons, (which are available in my Etsy shop!)

Wedding Invitation Flowers

This past month I created two very special paper flowers based on wedding invitations. The first one (gold and white) was inspired by a friends wedding invitation and given as a gift to the happy couple. In the second flower, I used the insides of their wedding program and photocopies of their invitation for the peddles.

Birthday Stickers!

Thanks Everyone!

2012 Iowa State Fair Fine Art Exhibition

I am excited to say that my illustration "Working in Studio" was accepted into the 2012 Iowa State Fair Fine Art Exhibition. The Exhibition will run the 9th through the 19th so if you are planning to make a trip to the fair this year you can stop by and see it in person. 

The very cool framing was done by Van Doren's Custom Picture Framing.

Custom Paper Flower for Shelly Beach

Last week I was commissioned to make a special paper flower and crane earring set as a gift for the author Shelly Beach. I was asked if I could use some of the text from her books, Self-Talk to make the earrings and some of the pages from Precious Lord, Take My Hand for the book flower. This was my first time with a custom order and it was requested that I not harm the books themselves (normally I recycle book pages for the petals of the flowers) so it was a bit of a challenge. But I think that they turned out well, if I do say so myself :) 

 If you ever have a special project that you think I could handle don't be shy! Shoot me an e-mail and we can talk harris.caitlyn@gmail.com

2012 VBS Shirt

Westminster Presbyterian Church asked me if i could design a tee-shirt for this years Vacation Bible School and this is what I came up with. The animals are part of this years theme "Sonrise." I sketched the design out first and then finished it in Adobe Illustrator.

Recycled Pencils on Etsy

Good news! You can now buy some of my recycled pencils online!

I have gray, blue, green, and assorted sets for sale on my Etsy page.