Cell Phone Knots

I made some charms as Christmas gifts this year and I taught myself how to tie a Pan-Chang knot.
This is the tutorial I followed if you want to make your own! Pan-Chang Knot

Sketch Binder

 

 

After I graduated from college I started keeping a sketch binder instead of a sketch book. It is great because I find myself scanning sketches a lot more and manipulating them in the computer, so I can just pop them out and then put them back in when I am done! I also have a second binder where I archive old sketches when I don't want them in my book anymore. 

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