Gelli Printing Plate Valentine's Day Cards

This week in the studio I have been playing around with my Gelli Printing Plate and these beautiful, grungy, messy, colourful pages are the fruits of my labour.

Once they were all hanging up to dry, I started thinking about what I could create with them. It was kind of a case of "well I have all these pretty papers, now what?". And so seen as Valentine's Day is coming up, that is how these colourful beauties got turned into...... 

 These Valentine's Day cards for my Etsy shop.

I picked some of my favourite designs from my growing stack of Gelli prints, cut them to size, ripped some of the edges and backed them onto black 5 x 5 cards. I also added a sentiments from book pages. They are blank on the inside and come with a white envelope.

So far I have added just these 4 designs but if they go down well I may add more. Hey, it's not like I will run out of Gelli prints anytime soon! 

Let me know what you think! Have you created any Valentine's projects lately?

Ci

xoxo

New Items In My Shop!

I've had such a hectic few weeks in the studio preparing for the Christmas fairs/markets that I have been guilty of neglecting my poor little Etsy shop of late. However, now that I have gotten the two big ones out of the way, I can relax a little and give my shop the attention it truly deserves.

So, I've added some new items!

I adore these little Christmas gift tags (if I can say so myself). They are so simple yet colourful and jazzy all at the same time. I brought them along to the Christmas fairs and they have been selling like hot cakes!

I bet you thought I hadn't been creating canvases at all lately.... I haven't shown much work on here since the exhibition but if you did think that you would be very wrong. I have been creating art non-stop! But I had to keep it all stored up for the Christmas fairs. Until now of course, now there is a whole new range of pretty little bookcase canvases available in my shop. It really makes me smile when I see a full shop :) (But hopefully not full for long!)

1. "Every Ray Of Sunshine"//2."Flourish"//3."Quiet Days"//4."Faith"//5."Sage"//6."Violet"//7."Colourful Trio"//8."Warm And Snug"

Don't forget, if you are planning on purchasing for Christmas, do so soon to ensure your pretty things arrive in time for the big day :)

You can see more at my Etsy shop Ciara McGuire Designs

Take care
Ciara
xoxo

Paper Work + New Etsy Items!

Hey all!!

I can't believe a week has gone by already.. Where does the time go? I kept on meaning to post but life/work gets in the way and before you know it a week has passed by without a peep out of me!

I have a list as long as my arm of things to do. Some studio and shop work, some blog work and some applications and other paper work. While studio/shop work is the easier "work" to get stuck into (it's always easy to do the creative stuff), the "paper work" stuff is piling up and up. So I am using this crappy head cold I have caught as an excuse to stay at home today and get as much "paper work" done as I can. I am beginning to think that I might need to start taking a day every week to just focus on "paper work" stuff. I call it "paper work" because I can't think of a better umbrella term for it but by that I mean blog stuff, applications, technical stuff, managing my online presence, Etsy stuff etc. 

Anyway, I'll keep you all up to date on that. I'll see how it goes.

In other news, as I said I have been busy lately. I am in the process of designing a few new items for my Etsy shop. Some are still in the early stages and aren't quite ready to be listed in the shop but I am excited to announce that I have listed new printed greeting cards!! 

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When I received these from the printers yesterday, I was absolutely thrilled at how they turned out. I feel like I could just reach out and touch all the different pieces. They are blank on the inside and come with a brown envelope as well which I think is pretty funky and cool. 

With Christmas coming up I thought it was about time to add a few gift items to the shop so keep an eye out because I will soon be adding more greeting cards and plenty of other pretty little things!! Exciting times :)

I expect this cards to fly out of the shop so get yours asap!!

Take care

Ciara

xoxo