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Sunday, October 19, 2008

Pumpkin Carriage Greeting Card

I listed another Halloween card. I wanted to do something different than and did a pumpkin carriage sort of inspired by Cinderella. Everything is watercolor painted. There's a pumpkin carriage on the right side and two small pumpkins and a clock (to represent the stroke of midnight) on the back/left side when opened up.

I started off by drawing the image in pencil. I then watercolor painted everything - this card was easier to paint because I used watercolor cards that are meant to hold watercolor paint. I wanted something extra so I put gold embossing powder on the wheels and pumpkin:



And here's how it turned out:





It's a little bit more expensive than my other cards ($10) because I put a lot more detail and time in to the artwork of it. I also have one more Halloween card to list that features a bat and a watercolor painted moon. My internet is being slow so I can't get the photos up, but it should (hopefully) be up this week before Halloween. I also picked up some Halloween candies today. If anybody orders a Halloween card (or anything in my shop) during Halloween time, I was going to include a couple chocolates.

Two of my items are featured in treasuries. :) One of my other Halloween cards is in this treasury for the Etsy for Animals team. I also found out today one of my "Vote" cards was featured in this Obama treasury.

I was downtown shopping today and noticed there were a couple of local craft shows. Both were for early November, so it might be too late for me to do them and I don't have that many items here. There was also no contact info on the flyers I saw and I haven't been able to find any info/any other craft shows online yet. I've never done a craft show, but I really want to do one at some point. Anybody have any experience with them? What was your first craft show like?

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