3 Day Sale! All Holiday Items are 20% Off!

I can't believe it's November! The holiday season has officially begun and to celebrate I'm have a special sale in my Etsy shop! Now through November 3rd all items in the Christmas & Holiday section are 20% off! Don't miss this great opportunity to save on colorful greeting card packs and brand new gift tags!

Merry Christmas - Set of 10 Gift Tags

These gift tags feature illustrations from my new Merry Christmas card. They are printed and hand cut by me and only available in a limited quantity!

Christmas Cat - set of 10 gift tags

All holiday greeting cards are sold as both single cards and packs of 6 (with envelopes).

Merry Christmas - set of 6 cards w/ envelopes

Holiday Peace Bird - set of 6 cards w/ envelopes

Have A Hippy Holiday - set of 6 cards w/ envelopes

Happy Holidays from Portland, OR - set of 6 cards w/ envelopes

New Holiday Greeting Cards!

Before I share my assignment for Week 2 of Make Art That Sells, I thought I'd show you some more new holiday cards I designed this year! First up is this fun "Merry Christmas" card. I had fun drawing cute little holiday icons.

Merry Christmas - single blank card

This card I designed for my fellow Portlanders. It features Portland holiday landmarks like Peacock Lane, the 'Made In Oregon' sign and the downtown holiday tree.

Happy Holidays from Portland, Oregon - single blank card

All of my holiday cards are available for sale in my Etsy shop. 6-packs of these new designs will be added soon!

Lilla Rogers Studio School - Week 1

This past week was exciting because Part B of Lilla Rogers ecourse, Make Art That Sells started! The first week we focused on Paper and for our first assignment, we all designed a holiday greeting card. You may already know that designing greeting cards is sorta my thing, so I was excited to really dive into this one. We started out drawing Christmas candy and ornaments, then incorporating those elements into our final card design. I decided to experiment with some fun lettering for this "Holly Jolly Christmas" card...

I'm so thankful for this class! Every week is so inspiring and encouraging. Lilla is truly a positive force. She can make you believe that your dreams really are possible. After spending the past month struggling with health issues, this course is exactly what I need to help me get moving again.

This card is now available for purchase in my Etsy shop along with more new holiday goodies I plan to share here later this week :)

Christmas Fairies

I wish I had a chance to post about this sooner, but thought it being Christmas day and all, it still wasn't too late to share these little Christmas Fairy ornaments I made for gifts this year. They were originally inspired by this post I found via Pinterest. Their bodies are made from hand-painted old-fashioned clothespins, their dresses are yarn pom poms and I added wings made of felt and glitter. They turned out so darling and made a sweet addition to Christmas trees everywhere.

I didn't do hardly any Christmas shopping this year and opted to make things for friends and family instead. In addition to the fairy ornaments I made some tiki-themed homemade goodies for people to enjoy. I even ordered some pretty labels from my work to package them up in.

Hope you all have a wonderful, relaxing Christmas! Peace, Rachel

Vintage Christmas Trees

I've loved collecting vintage photos of Christmas trees this year. They seem so much more elaborate than our modern day Christmas trees (so much tinsel and trains!)

Something about seeing these vintage black and white photos really just draws me in. I can only imagine what these were like in real life!

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Holiday Cards

Since I am stuck in Virginia (due to Hurricane Sandy), I had time to add my holiday cards to my Etsy shop earlier than planned!

Have A Hippy Holiday

Holiday Folk Tree

Happy Holidays - Critter Campfire

Each card is designed and printed by me. I will have 6-packs of each design available soon. If you want to order a specific quantity feel free to send me an Etsy convo!