Beautifique

HAPPY EARTH DAY!!

Working on a few things that’ll keep me busy all day, but I couldn’t pass up posting  a little sumthin’ for Earth Day. Something quick.  Available for download, a  hi-res 6×6 image in honor of Earth Day. Feel free to do whatever you want with it (turn it into a coaster, print, greeting card, target practice..) so long as you keep the copyright and all. And of course for personal use only. If you do use it, I would love to see it, enjoy!

Click here for a printable version

Now you wont usually find me listening to Michael Buble but he’s totally growing on me. This song is just too cute and brings a serious cheese to my face. It’s a perfect song for this beautiful day!

xox

A few of weeks ago I got to work on a flyer, featuring the amazing pin up work of  legendary Alberto Vargas, for Bare Escentuals & Sephora at the Venetian to promote their Buxom Babes event for Rockabilly week in Vegas.

I really really had a lot of fun doing this flyer  I’m an extreme fan of pin up art (and Bare Escentuals!) so this job felt no where near like work. An even cooler payoff I just received an awesome “thank you” care package in the mail today chock full of my favorite Bare Escentuals items and then some!

So awesome! Totally excited to play with my new toys! I’m pretty much set for the year. Sweet! Thanks Dee!

What does a cat, a cow, and a table setting have in common? Absolutely nothing. But combine them together and you got yer self a funny little rhyme and a kick ass addition to any nursery room.

This 5.5×5.5″ three piece wall art set was inspired by one of my all time favorite rhymes of randomness “Hey Diddle Diddle“.

Fun fun stuff.  I wanted to keep this a 3 piece so I left out a line from the rhyme. Besides that line about the little dog laughing sounded a little too far fetched for me (oh if only sarcasm transferred well when reading.) Put them in any order you want. One of the best part about this rhyme is that it doesn’t make any sense so order doesn’t exist.

On Sale now at me lil shoppe at Etsy.

And here’s a quick video about how I created the vector using circles and the pentool featuring music by Tom Jobim & Elis Regina. Thanks for watching.

So I’ve been slightly obsessed with trying to make a decent looking critter doll. One that wont make my cat runaway. I’m also trying to stop smoking and now my hands are constantly looking for something to do. Seriously? It’s annoying…maybe that’s the nicotine talking but its REALLY annoying that I’m constantly trying to find something else to do other than smoke… So…

This is Malvo. He likes rocks (and long walks on the beach..) and he has a nasty habit of throwing pebbles at people. He’s currently working on diminishing that habit…

This one was a lot of fun to do. I actually made some patterns and had some sort of a plan when putting him together. And although he’s a little lopsided I like this little guy lots…his arms are so fun to swing around!

Here’s a link to the pattern if you’re interested in making your own version. If you do let me know how it turns out!

Since I’m almost done with my Love Es Strange Critters (12 in all), I decided I try to make my own critter doll yesterday…

I’ve always been a GO FOR IT kinda girl when it comes to trying new things. But when it comes to planning and strategizing on how I was actually going to make this such doll,  I didn’t really have a plan (as you can tell).

Even my cat wont go near this one!

Made from one of my many abandoned shirts laying on our attic floor and some freaky ass buttons my mom likes to save .

Happy Hump Day!

Being on a really tight budget totally sucks doesn’t it? Even more so when you’re in the business of self-promoting. Since I realized I can’t afford to pay for new prints every time I need to send out mailers, I decided to have a go at making them myself. Which was quite a daring move for someone who if asked  to cut a straight line it’ll end up looking like a map of Lombard St. in San Francisco.

I actually had a lot of fun doing this. I started off printing my fishy monster on a 6×9 envelope and with that I also printed out some  stickers shaped like  cloudy bubbles with mailing addresses on them. I made them stickers incase I decided not to send it to the company I wouldn’t feel bad about wasting an envelope. Can’t waste paper!

After the envelope and mailing sticker labels I had to plan out an execution for the actual samples and since I’m making them myself I decided to have a little bit of fun with this:

Step 1: Marinating The Meat

I chose some work to print on an 8.5×11 card stock front and back, this would be my main sample so I made sure to include my information in every nook and cranny (tastefully of course…)

Step 2: Cooking The Meat

I folded the sample set four ways so that it would have a front, interiors, and a back. Yes like a card.

Step 3: Creating the Meat Tray

On an 8.5×11 card stock again, I printed out the little case in which I would place my samples in, I also used it to print out my letter of introduction. I then cut the paper in half – 5.5×8.5 – so that I can paste them together later on.

I took my “meat” and marked the corners for…

Step 4: The Incision

After marking the corners of where I would place my sample card, I made small incisions to create slits on one of the 5.5×8.5 print using my exacto knife.

Step 5: Bonding

After placing the sample cards in the little slits I made on the first side of the card, I pasted the intro letter on to the back of it using some double sided tape and a little rubber cement.

Ugh. I need a manicure…I apologize on behalf of my nails..

Done, done and done!

Yay we’re done! And ready for mailing! …ack I don’t have stamps.

Life is like a chocolate-eating-dragon-monsters tail…if you take a bite outtav-it hard enough someones bound to notice…with or without teef in this guys case..

I’m not really a crafty person but I sure do try. If you’ve been keeping up with the blog you’ll notice a lot of little monsters and weird critters running around lately and they all seem to be promoting one thing…LOVE...yes in honor of Valentines Day I made these little “Love Es Strange” characters to remind everyone that love is in fact very strange, comes in all forms and sizes and although it’s never perfect…it sure is a beautiful thing. Printed Original Illustration, Hand cut and scored.

So remind that special someone(s) how strange their love is…I mean how strangely wonderful their love is! They’re great for any day of the year but especially sweet for Valentines Day! Get them now on Etsy!

www.etsy.com/shop/beautifique

Since I have a lot of down time lately, I made a banner for my godsons 1st birthday. His mom’s doing a Disney theme so ergo the Mickey cameo.

Ran into a few problems with me and my printer regarding the file size and whatnot, but thankfully it came out well and it came earlier than expected. Now on to other projects…after I nap..

The Philippines.  A country where buying a pack of cigarettes is more attainable than being able to afford enough food to feed one family…

I took a short trip (10 days) back to the homeland around last November. In that short stay I people watched a lot. Took a lot of little road trips around my home town, Marikina and snapped a lot of shots of random people doing their daily grinds. I heard a lot of different stories about the typhoon that hit the area a month before. Stories of loss, courage, strength, a whole lot of faith and a positive attitude that everything’s going to be OK. Indeed it would be for those who could afford to be…but for those who never had much…

In looking back at some of the shots I took, I decided to make a coffee table book out of some of these shots and maybe try to sell it to donate the proceeds to the Red Cross.. A very ambitious thought…but where would we be without those type of thoughts eh?