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New Initials in my Etsy Shop

February 21, 2015 by groovity

I just added more initials to my Etsy shop. I’m almost done with the alphabet! Whew. E, F, N, O, V, W. I now offer each initial print in your choice of 7 colors. Black, Indigo, Blush, Folk Light, Folk Dark, Blossom Light, Blossom Dark. I’m currently in love with this Indigo palette! I usually use a bazillion colors, but I’m diggin’ these blues! thanks so much for stopping by! Click HERE to visit my Etsy shop.

Categories: Etsy, New Design • Tags: alphabet, art, etsy, floral, flower, folk, folky, gift, groovity, initial, letter, monogram, paper cutting, polish, shop, wycinanki

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New Personalized Art Prints!

January 5, 2015 by groovity

I just wanted to let you know about some new product that I’ve just listed on Etsy. Personalized Art Prints! Check them out. Call me crazy, I did them in 9 colors. Your choice of a single initial for the center monogram. The center monogram is from Laura Worthington. Isn’t it fabulous? You can see my listing by clicking HERE. Comes in 8×10 for now, 11×14 soon. Which one is your favorite? Thanks for stopping by!

Categories: Etsy, New Design • Tags: art print, choice, customize, decorative, elegant, embellish, etsy, floral, flower, initial, letter, made to order, monogram, oval, personalize, wreath, wycinanki

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Happy New Year!

January 2, 2015 by groovity

Just wanted to wish all of my Groovity groupies a Happy New year! Here’s to a healthy, happy, and productive 2015!

Categories: Design, New Design • Tags: 2015, decorative, embellish, floral, flower, greeting, happy new year, papercut, script, wycinanki

Merry Christmas!

December 25, 2014 by groovity

Hope that everyone had a lovely holiday season! Looking forward to 2015. 2014 was my most productive year ever! I googled the Polish translation as well 😉

Categories: Group Design Project, New Design • Tags: 2014, advent calendar 2014, advent challenge 2014, christmas, floral, flower, greeting, groovity, heart, holiday, mary tanana, merry, polish, seasonal, wycinanki, xmas

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Have you seen MOYO?

November 25, 2014 by groovity

Have you checked out the new issue of MOYO magazine? MOYO is an online publication that celebrates design in every form. It comes out quarterly, and it’s jam packed with interviews, gorgeous designs, and so much more. And…in this issue I’m in it….three times! To read MOYO magazine, click HERE. It’s in issue 7. Here is some of the work that I did for one of the Art and Business of Surface Pattern Design courses and a little interview about me. […]

Categories: My Design Featured • Tags: agate, collection, color, floral, flower, font, initial, magazine, mineral, monogram, MOYO, purple, skillshare, The Art and Business of Surface Pattern Design, typography, wycinanki

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Make Art That Sells-Part 4

November 24, 2014 by groovity

This week’s project for Make Art That Sells was for “party paper”. Paper plates, napkins, cups, stuff for parties. This was my fave project too. The theme was “flora”. I decided to aim for a folky feel (but of course!). I ended up using a combination of some older and newer floral sketches. I started with the most complicated piece, the plate. Then I went a bit crazy on the napkin. I just couldn’t help myself, haha! I […]

Categories: Color, Education, New Design • Tags: color, Do What You Love, flora, floral, flower, gift, groovity, illustrate, make art that sells, make it in design, mary tanana, paper, party, surface pattern design

Skully!

October 2, 2014 by groovity

A few years ago I entered a contest for a scarf design. The theme was “Skulls”. I’m really not into skulls and any kind of “dark” theme, but I always have loved those Sugar Skulls from the Mexican Dia de los Muertos tradition. I ended up being one of the winners! Yay! But…I had to give up the rights to my design. Boo! But the prize money was pretty decent. I’ve been wanting to do a series of these for […]

Categories: Color, Design, Etsy, New Design, Pinterest, Quirky • Tags: Adobe Illustrator, art, Book of Life, Cintiq, day of the dead, decorative, dia de los muertos, embellish, flower, folk, henna, mexican, mexico, sugar skull, surface pattern design, tattoo, wacom

My Latest Obsession…

June 24, 2014 by groovity

I’ve had an (empty) Etsy store for over a year, and I’ve been working really hard to come up with some ideas to stock it. Lots of my friends sell digital scrapbooking papers, but I didn’t want to go that route. So instead, I’m starting out by selling some prints. I’ve been making these Polish folk flowers, also called wycinanki, for quite a while. I’ve built up a large image library of them. Of course, I started with an “M”. […]

Categories: Design, Etsy, New Design • Tags: art, craft, create, draw, etsy, floral, flower, folk, initial, letter, monogram, polish, print, wycinanki

Time to Garden

May 29, 2014 by groovity

I live in a city. And I really like it! Although I do miss having my own yard, our building has set up an area for us to garden. This is my third year participating. It’s on top of the roof of the parking garage. This is my little garden plot! It’s about a 6 x 6 foot square raised bed. This year I’m growing a few different types of heirloom tomatoes, zucchini, lots of herbs, and flowers. My absolute […]

Categories: My Life, Photography • Tags: design, draw, flower, gardener, gazania, greeting card, grow, plant, spring, surface pattern design, urban

Mary, Mary….

May 22, 2014 by groovity

Mary, Mary, quite contrary, How Does Your Garden Grow? That’s the title for my newest fabric collection for Modern Yardage. And I am so excited by this one! This is how the idea for this collection came about. I LOVE Pinterest. Do you? I used to rip up magazine and catalogs for inspiration, but I hated to create folders and files for all of the clippings and organize them…only to have my kitties knock them on the floor. One day […]

Categories: Design, Fabric Collection, Modern Yardage, New Design • Tags: Adobe Illustrator, artist, Cintiq, create, design, draw, ethnic, fabric, floral, flower, folk, modern yardage, paper, paper cutting, pinterest, polish, process, quilt, sew, slavic, surface pattern, tablet, wycinanki