Announcing a New Shop Feature at BdoodleZ

I am excited to Announce that my BdoodleZ shop on etsy will now have a new monthly feature: the Item of the Month. Each month I will choose a new item to be featured at a special discounted price.

This month's featured Item is my beautiful Autumn Vibrant Flowers.



With rich pinks, oranges, and yellows, this funky flower design is a bright and happy way to wish anyone hello! Normally priced at $7.75 for a 4 card set, for the month of October only, you can purchase this great item for only $5.00 (plus shipping)!

Offer ends Oct. 31. Get yours today: http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=33024891

Treasury Spotting!

So excited to find myself part of this pretty pink treasury! It is refreshing to find a touch a pink as the grey cold days creep in. Thanks so much to Tricia from LazyTcrochet for including me!

The Doodle Story

Its been a while since I've featured a Doodle Story, and shared my thought process on one of my designs. This doodle feature is not actually a new design, which is why I think it makes a good doodle story.

My AUTUMN Vibrant Flowers is one of my current favorites in my shop. I love the fall colors that brilliantly "pop" of the page. But this is not the first version of my design. The original vibrant flowers (seen below) used a much different color scheme. With each doodle design taking several hours to complete (between the hard drawing the photoshop editing/coloring) whenever I can "reinvent" one my finished designs with a new color scheme, it allows me to offer a new selection without having to start from scratch.

I wanted to offer an autumn flower selection in my shop and since I loved the playfulness of the Vibrant Flowers design, and the fun black and white hatching in the background I thought it would be fun to give it a new look!

Both the Autumn Vibrant Flowers and the original Vibrant Flowers can be found on sale in my Etsy shop.

Can't decide which version you like better? I'd be happy to create a combo pack of two of each color, just convo me to set up the listing!

Happy Autumn.

Happy New Year!

A new year means new designs for BdoodleZ! Lots of them! Here is a little preview of some of the fresh looks that will be listed at my online shop in the upcoming weeks. Don't forget to check in often, you never know what may be popping up!

Hope your 2009 is off to a great start!!

www.bdoodlez.etsy.com

Long Cold Days in the BdoodleZ World

These "Blue Puffs" remind of the hazy blue days of winter that seem to have descended down permanently on my little neck of the world. With frenzied home improvements, out-of town family visitors, extra activities, and nagging colds, the days seem longer somehow, or at least busier. I like the idea of simply slowing down. My "Blue Puffs" design in its elegant simplicity seems to just fit the mood!

Hope your winter blues are keeping you smiling!

The Doodle Story

Today's featured doodled is my "vertical daisy" design. This doodle was not originally drawn to be a card. It was a doodle from way back when in one of my older doodle books. When I firsted started making cards out of my doodles, I went back through the old books to see what designs could maybe make good cards, and this was one.
My first BdoodleZ cards were solely black and white so this design was featured without any color. After I began doing colorized cards, I decided to make my flower note cards available in color too. Depending on the amount of hatching adding color can often take a long time. My newer designs are drawn with coloring in mind, so spaces between lines (for example) are often spread out well enough to allow for the color. But the hatching for the daisies was extremely close. So to achieve the color affect I had to digitally erase a lot of the hatching in the grass... a very time consuming process. But well worth it because I love the final result!

Check out this flower design and three other unique flower cards sold together in a four set of note cards: http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=10889555

Free Gift Time at the BdoodleZ Etsy Store!

Its free gift time at the BdoodleZ Etsy Store:

Spend 5.00 or more and recieve a free set of gift tags! (Must spend 5.00 BEFORE the price of shipping). Here is a peak at your free gift! Click on my Etsy link on the right to start shopping now!