It’s a gray, windy, and chilly day in Chicagoland, but I’ve got flowers, brides, and lots of color filling my day! January is when I start to receive a lot of wedding-oriented orders, as spring bridal showers and summer weddings are being planned. I love to illustrate …
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New Year Gift Tags
Hello crafty friends! Hope everyone is enjoying the holiday season. Right now I’m in that weird limbo between Christmas and New Year’s where I’ve eaten WAY too much sugar and cheese, and I have no idea what day it is – LOL! I’ve been feeling …
Holiday Card Bonanza!
Hooray! My last holiday card order was delivered yesterday! This year I designed 50 custom holiday cards. Custom meaning, no templates! All designs were original and not duplicated. While this makes for a bit of a grueling November, I get incredible creative gratification from this …
Holiday Place Cards
Happy Holiday Season! It’s certainly looking like Christmas here in Chicagoland, as we received a huge snowstorm on Sunday night, blanketing the land in white, and even canceling school! Hopefully, it will stick around long enough for us to have a white Christmas. I’m super …
Brush Lettering Workshop
Hello creative friends! Somehow we are halfway through November already? Craziness! I’m already totally in the holiday spirit. I love, love, love Thanksgiving, but Christmas is on my brain big time! This past Sunday I held a Brush Lettering Workshop at a darling stationery shop …
Happy Halloween… or Merry Christmas?
Happy Halloween everyone! While most of you have been thinking about ghosts and ghouls over the past few weeks, I’m already knee deep in holiday work. Custom Christmas and holiday card orders are coming in hot! And I love that people are so on the …
Fall Watercolor
It’s October! The best month of the year, in my opinion. The cooling temps and changing colors make me feel refreshed, revived, and creative! It’s been a while since I had an opportunity to sit down and paint. I have friends with October birthdays, so …
Moving Announcement
Hooray! A new box of supplies from CutCardStock arrived this week and I was SO EXCITED! Especially for the Gansai Tambi Watercolor Paint Set and the Zig Water Brushes. I didn’t end up using the Micron Pens for this post, but they are one of …
Grad Season
Happy Wednesday friends! We are getting down to the nitty-gritty last days of school. It’s always a chaotic and emotional time of year for me. The realization that my boys are getting older hits me like a ton of bricks EVERY year! And trying to …
Mother’s Day is coming!
Hello creative friends! Hooray for Monday! I know, you don’t often hear people celebrate Mondays, but I happen to love them. It means my kids are off to school and my husband is off to work, so I get the house back to myself (and …
Easter Placecards
Hello creative friends! My name is Erin German and I’m so excited to share my first blog post as part of the CutCardStock Design team! I’m a graphic designer by trade, so you’ll be seeing some of my printed projects that incorporate CutCardStock products, but I’ll …
Neon Masked Heart Watercolor Card for Valentine’s Day
Hello and welcome to another tutorial! Today we are focusing on something super simple that anyone with basic supplies should be able to replicate to create a special hand-made card for a loved one on Valentine’s Day. Starting with Astrobright card stock in Plasma Pink …
