Bright!

Now that is some bright yellow and orange!

I was working on an illustration but didn't get it finished before bed time. I should have it for tomorrow... I hope! Tweet Follow @kellymedina

Cactus

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Thank You Tags

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I made

this and loved it. Recipe here. Tweet Follow @kellymedina

Bookmarks

I have been very into reading the last few months. I decided I need more bookmarks for all the different books I tend to reference for gardening, cooking, inspiration, sewing, etc. These are them! I'm quite happy with how they turned out. I adhered a solid color on the back to add some stiffness. I have been toying around with doing a give-away at some point and think I will add this to the package. Tweet Follow @kellymedina

Brillante

I was nominated for this award by Carli, May, and Kstyles recently and it just made me beam with joy. Thank you, thank you! :)

So now I need to nominate 7 bloggers. It wasn't easy and there are many folks who have wonderful blogs that I probably forgot.

1. The three ladies above who gave me the award are givens - they all are talented and inspiring artists.

2. Flora at Happy Doodleland - she is one of the first Illustration Friday folks I met and her talents inspire me daily.

3. Linda at Sketched Out - she is so talented in illustrating and writing. She leaves me impressed from every post.

4. Juliette at Chickpea Studio - an amazing talent with a sewing machine. She has great tutorials and photography that keeps me inspired to keep at my sewing projects.

5. Curt at While Walking Duncan - one of my oldest friends and an amazing writer. It all started with a soap opera (imagine: Dynasty, Dallas and a titch of Falcon Crest) when we were 15 years old. He has a second blog here, though incomplete, this is a fun read.

6. Danielle at Red Dog and Jude - she hasn't been blogging as much due to her busy life as a freelancer and day job, but she still always inspires me with her Monday Inspiration posts and her colorful illustrations.

7. Pink Penguin - who I only recently found and have been inspired by her sewing talents since. She has great tutorials and a shop with her wonderful work.

8. Christine - Wonderful collage artist and sweet person over all. Very inspiring with her cooking and knitting/felting talents.

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The rules of accepting are as follows:-
1) Put the logo on your blog.
2) Add a link to the person who awarded you.
3) Nominate at least 7 other blogs.
4) Add links to those blogs on yours.
5) Leave a message for your nominees on their blogs. Tweet Follow @kellymedina

Overly Confident Ice Cream Cone

Obviously, I am on an ice cream kick this week.

The last two illustrations have been from a work project and didn't use. Tweet Follow @kellymedina

Girl + Ice cream

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Me, a self portrait,

... that is, if I were a daisy on a hot day. I'm not much of a hot weather person. I love brisk air, a slight breeze, blue skies with a spattering of clouds and I don't have a problem with rain at all (makes sense I live in the Northwest, I suppose). So as you can imagine during the hot months I become like this sad, wilting daisy. It was the only one like this out of the other daisies and it caught my eye. I hear so many people say they love the hot, stale air and burning (my words) sun on their skin - yah, not so much - but hey we all get a turn to enjoy our time of "perfect" weather.

Stay cool everyone :) Tweet Follow @kellymedina

Illustration + Tangent + Inspiration

For a quick illustration tonight, I played around with using my mouse and brush to make shapes, instead of my usual pen tool in Illustrator. I'm wanting to start using my Wacom tablet in the near future, but I still find it so awkward. Baby steps. Okay, slight /tangent, but whenever I say "baby steps" I always think of What About Bob , have you seen it? If not, you should. Bill Murray is so funny!... /end tangent. :)

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Check out this talented illustrator I recently found in the March/April 2008 Communication Arts, Jessica Hische, great illustrations and typography. Tweet Follow @kellymedina