Great Sale On Business Cards

Burned Butterfly Business Card

Burned Butterfly Business Card

Starting up a new business or need to freshen up your business or calling cards? Zazzle is having a generous sale on their business cards (and that means anything printed on business cards). The cards are easily customized right online and shipped directly to you. Just place your order in the cart and enter code BIZCARDS5010.

We have quite a few new designs over at Pen And Ink as well as fun styles at 13 Black Cats DesignsYou can add anything you like to my designs, change the fonts and colors or even make your own cards from scratch!

Fiesta Business Card	Cordelia Chubby Business Card	Siesta Motel Chubby Business Card
Black And White Dotted Flowers Business Card	PICK-A-COLOR Dots & Stripes Chubby Business Card	Crazy Squares Business Card

and that goes for anything on business cards including Emergency Information Cards, Bookmarks, Gift Tags and Birth Announcements!

Pet Sitter's Information Card - Cat

Pink Cupcake Birthday Gift Tags

Baby Sitter's Information Card

50% of the business card net sale price will be deducted when one or more business card packs are purchased and the coupon code BIZCARDS5010 is applied at checkout. The net sale price is the price of the product (excluding shipping and taxes). Offer is valid from March 19, 2010 through March 31, 2010 at 11:59pm PT. This offer does not apply to past purchases and may not be combined with any other Zazzle promotional or volume discount offers. If a volume discount applies to your order, you will receive either the discount set forth in this offer or the standard volume discount, whichever is greater. Offer valid on Zazzle.com only.




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New From Pen And Ink

Fun Florals Sticker

I just wanted to take a moment to show what is new over at Pen And Ink before I introduce you to the next artist coming in the next post.

Fun Florals is a new design I drew in Illustrator using custom brushes and swatches. This particular version is more of a muted tone but coming soon will be a bright more colorful version. Right now it is available on all kinds of supplies for your business or personal use, from order forms to recipe cards to handmade by stickers and presentation/recipe/photo binders.

Fun Floral Invitation

Fun Floral 1.5" Binder

Fun Florals Mousepad

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Burned Butterfly

Burned Butterfly Sticker

Latest design on Pen and Ink and 13 Black Cats Designs too!

I began fooling around with brushes and swirls in Illustrator yesterday to see if anything would come of it. I began to randomly draw swirls and they started to take the shape of a butterfly wing and so a butterfly was born.

After getting one side of the wing finished I had to expand the brush strokes so I could reflect it to the other side. I drew the body using circles and ovals and tied it together with a solid wing behind the swirls.

Originally I was going to do a monarch type butterfly in orange but when I opened it in photoshop it just wasn't working. I accidentally fell upon a teal color when randomly clicking around the color box. (Art is so precise isn't it?) Once the teal color was chosen I thought I would set it against a dark brown so I made a background, added the noise filter and then crosshatched it to give it a bit of a vintage look. The butterfly was still a bit too bright so I change it's opacity to Color Burn, merged it with the brown background and gave it a bit of a glow.

Since this design started to develop a vintage feel to it I made a background like an old newspaper. First I started with a cream background and burned the edges, added a slight bit of noise and applied a monotone color of brown to age it. I typed some random letters to fill the page and changed the opacity to overlay and then 50%. merged it down and there you have it, old newspaper! The full line can be found on Pen And Ink and a variation of it can be found on 13 Black Cats Designs.

From Pen And Ink:

Burned Butterfly Invitation

Burned Butterfly Gift Certificate

Burned Butterfly Name Tag Button

From 13 Black Cats Designs:

Burned Butterfly Bag

Burned Butterfly Mousepad

Burned Butterfly Shirt

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