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Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Tattly - and a little birthday gift for you.

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You may have seen me mention on our  Facebook  page that we licensed some very neat, vintage sailor images for temporary tattoos with Tat...
Tuesday, July 10, 2012

More from the yard sale . .

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So I thought you might like to see what I did with the vintage picnic table that went with the 2 benches (that ended up in my living room -...
Sunday, July 8, 2012

Yard sale score!

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I had fun this weekend. The neighbour had a yard sale and, of course, I was first at the garden gate waiting to browse the offerings! Right...
Friday, July 6, 2012

Zigzag!

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Here's a little chevron inspiration! Really the prettiest chevron patterns I've seen in a long time - on One King's Lane th...

Geometric rocks

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This caught my eye a week ago on Etsy. The colours are lovely! From thepairabirds (I wish Etsy shop names weren't all one word - know ...
Thursday, May 17, 2012

Before we go . . . a before and after!

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Hello everyone. It's been very busy here as we get ready to go to New York tomorrow for the Stationery Show and for Surtex . I'm l...
Friday, May 11, 2012

Cartolina for teNeues!

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A few months ago I was asked to design some note cards for teNeues . TeNeues publish really beautiful products and I was thrilled to be ask...
Sunday, May 6, 2012

Flower Designer

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I think that these are the covers of Flower Designer magazine. They are from Izutsu Hiroyuki's Flickr collection. Fabulous illustration...

American Indian inspired decorating

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Pretty, American indian inspired rug. I like, I think. This reminds me so much of Ralph Lauren circa 1986 - I had that wrap around shaw col...

Plumes

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This poster is from Urban Outfitters . I have an original of this vintage page from an encyclopedia. It's quite wonderful -  I use some...

Roses

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I'm so into roses at the moment - can't get enough old fashioned tea roses and peonies - thank goodness it's the season for ros...
Wednesday, May 2, 2012

New Cartolina Studios!

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I know, I've been missing in action again - just when I had announced that I was back for good! Sorry about that! We decided to do so...

Ganesha Maidens - fab.com

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More pretty things in my INBOX yesterday morning. This is an original Indian poster, complete with tears and stains. And it's quite big...

Hand painted wallpaper

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Hand painted wall paper scrap on One King's Lane this morning. So many people try to copy this style of vintage illustration but f...
Monday, April 16, 2012

Trote

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One of my online friends, Giuseppe Salerno, AKA @beppeartz , has a new project. Giusepppe is a very talented typographer and graphic designe...
Thursday, April 12, 2012

SURTEX

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Next month Cartolina will be exhibiting at SURTEX for the very first time. We are so excited! We will be at Lilla Rogers Studio booth - #3...

Forage - Gabriola Island this summer!

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Recently, I was asked by Mariko Paterson McCrae to be a keynote speaker at FORAGE in August. I was delighted to say the least! Forage is a...
Wednesday, April 11, 2012

New at Cartolina!

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Well it's that time of the year again - time for new Cartolina Cards! Our latest collection is so pretty, I'm super excited. The bu...
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