Earth Day, Craft Show and Recycled Items

Happy Earth Day! My college held a craft show type event for Earth Day so I decided to sell some of my crafts in it. I had fun doing it. It was busier than I thought it'd be and reminded me of a craft show I did at Esperanza last summer. One of my cards sold right away. It was a newer card and I didn't have the chance to get a photo of it. I collaged photos from a magazine I had from the 1950s. That was the only thing that sold, but I got lots of admirers and comments which was nice. It was also fun to see what other crafts and recycled items people were selling.

Since it's Earth Day, I thought I'd post some items I have in my Recycled Items.

I have a couple movie poster recycled journals. I want to make more like these in the future:

Hope Floats Movie Upcycled Journal



Center Stage Movie Upcycled Journal



I have some items made out of recycled books. The "I Am a Little Duck" is the first item I sold on Etsy:

I Am a Little Animal Upcycled Journal



Upcycled Swan Flyaway Journal



These are some items I made with vintage items, from magazines:

Best Wishes Red Birthday Greeting Card



Vintage Girl Coptic Bound Book



These items are altered journals. I started with an old journal that was already bound and redid the covers:

Asian Print Mini Upcycled Journal



Altered Octopus Spiral Journal



What are you doing to celebrate Earth Day?

Newspaper Moleskine and Salud Latina

I just sold an item! :) I only sell things once in a while so it's nice to get a sale because it was unexpected. My views have been down lately and I haven't had a lot of time to make new stuff so this made me happy. I sold this Newspaper Altered 2010 Moleskine Planner (which is similar to this one that I sold last month). I'll keep in mind to make more planners with this paper for next year.



I also got asked to donate some items for this event on May 2nd at Salud Latina. The organization hopes to improve the capacity of health departments, community-based and academic institutions to design and provide high quality culturally-competent HIV and chronic disease prevention and care models to residents of the State of Illinois. I decided to donate this calendar (I still have one more calendar in my shop). I don't think it will sell on my Etsy and I want someone to be able to use it:





I'm also sending some business cards so hopefully it will get the word out about my shop a little. Don't forget, you can still buy vegan sample bags with my mini cards here.

Mini Sample Greeting Cards

I made mini cards for this month's Vegan Craft Sample Bags. I definitely recommend checking them out if you like cruelty free items and want to see a variety of craft products. You can buy the sample bag in different sizes ranging from $15-$35 and all the money goes to a charity. I said I would go in to more details about my cards. Here's some photos from my Flickr of some of the cards I sent out:
























Which is your favorite?

Updates and New Cards

I listed some new cards. This one is great for music lovers:

Music Notes Wavy Card



I meant to get this one up by Valentine's Day:

I Love You Black and Pink Hearts Fabric Card



I've also been listing more products on my Storenvy. I don't know if anything will sell, but it's a fun site to try out. There's an event for Earth Day and I might be selling some of my items for a few hours. It's kind of like a craft show, but less official.

I have some envelopes I made out of decorative paper that I want to list. They're all different sizes and some don't fit the standard envelope sizes. I'm still perfecting them, but I thought I might list a few. Would you buy envelopes from my shop? I'll have more journals listed soon.

Vegan Craft Sample Bag

Some of my sample greeting cards are in the Earth Day sample bag from Vegan Samples. I didn't make enough for every bag so it's not a guarantee you'll get one of my cards if you buy one, but each bag comes with a bunch of vegan friendly sample crafts. A team I'm in, the EtsyVeg team, is also sponsoring this month. Profits From Earth Day Bags go to Carolina Pet Rescue so it's also helping a cause if you buy from them. You can buy a bag here!

You can see my Zebra card in the above photo. I made a bunch of A2 sized cards which I think are the smallest greeting cards available. Each has a different decorative paper on the outside and comes blank on the inside. I also have my business card inside each one. Here's a photo of some of them:



I'll go in to more detail about each card in another entry. I made two of this music note one so I put one on sale in my shop. It's perfect for music lovers or musicians:



Let me know if you decide to purchase. I hope it helps spread the word about my shop a little. I'd also like to know if you like mini (A2) size cards. They're good for sending a quick note or putting them in gifts (if you don't want a full size card). I'm thinking of putting more in my shop.

Storenvy and Blog Award

I found this site called Storenvy which is sort of like Etsy. You can sell handcrafted items and bands also use it to sell merchandise. I found it because I bought a shirt from one of my favorite bands off there. I've tried selling on Artfire and wasn't as successful as on Etsy, but I decided I should just try it out. I opened a store (link above) where I'm going to try selling a couple items. I'll let you know how my views/sales are. I love the layout of the site and it's just something fun/different to try out. If you enter the code "BLOG" at checkout, you get 20% off, just for my blog readers. :)

Speaking of blogs, I got this nice blog award from Owlsome Gifts.



Put the logo on your blog or within your post.
Pass the award to 12 well-deserving bloggers.
Link the nominees within your post.
Let them know they received it by commenting on their blog.
Share the love and link to the person from whom you received the award.

I'm passing the reward on to:
Sweets and Hearts
Little Paper Dog
Smitten Kitchen
Bookbinding Team
Stacey Winters
Dulce Candy
Etsy Giveaways
Paper Tissue
Una Bella Vita
Inspire Please
The Invisible Child
Quoteskine

The blogs are kind of a mix of everything - craft, photography, fashion, food, etc. Check them out! Also feel free to recommend me any blogs. :) Happy Friday!

New Cards and 365 Project

I listed some new cards. These cards are great to give out in spring or to nature lovers:

Orange and Yellow Flower Card



Green Grass Thank You Greeting Card



I also listed this love related card:

Sweetheart Gold Glitter Greeting Card



I feel like I haven't had time to go on Etsy lately because I've been so busy. I'm trying to post on my Tumblr every day and list something almost every day.

I'm doing a 365 Project on Flickr. My camera broke the other day and I almost had to end the project. I have a 35mm film camera though and I'm using black and white film with it for my 365 project until my digital camera is fixed. I haven't used my film camera in a while so it's kind of fun to use. I hope the photos turn out.

Easter Eggs

Happy Easter! You can check out the Easter section in my shop to get late/early Easter cards and springtime inspired items. Here's some inspiration for decorating Easter eggs I found around the web:

















Do you decorate Easter eggs? What kind of things do you do for Easter?

Autism Awareness Day

It's World Autism Awareness Day! You can learn more about the holiday here. My brother has autism and I'm also part of the Etsy for Autism Team so I have a couple autism themed items in my shop. These journals use the official autism fabric:

Autism Awareness Journal



Mini Autism Awareness Journal



I also got this new greeting card. It uses joker decorative paper I got in Italy and has a unique shape. I listed it on April Fool's Day because I think it kind of fits the holiday. Did anybody do/experience any good April Fool's pranks?

Joker Greeting Card



Hope everyone has a good weekend!