Mr. Reliable

I'm back from a wonderful holiday break with some new artwork:

He's called 'A Reliable Friend' and comes in blue, pink, green, and orange.

These mix and match critters were some of the very first things I sold on etsy and I still love making them all these years later. I love seeing what color and animal combinations customers come up with. Even when I think something is not going to look good together, I get it printed out and more often than not I'm surprised at how much I like the grouping. I think these big guys are going to be a nice addition for the mix and match.

What do you think!?

I'm so excited to show off my newest alphabet print!

I made the original individual animal alphabet prints a few years ago, and have been adding to them ever since. I have seven letters that have more than one animal, and always wished I could use them in other projects.

So I decided to do another poster/print with the animal prints, but utilizing some of the animals that are not in the original animal alphabet print. I love how it turned out! I decided to go with a horizontal orientation as well, just to change it up some.

Here they are with the 123's print:

What do you think!?

Changes

The other day I mentioned I was updating all the tags in my print shop. I've been going section by section and updating photos and tags. It's dull and tedious work, but necessary work none the less.

One thing I've really wanted to do amidst all the updating was edit the colors for my wild & woodland animal prints. As my shop has evolved I began using the same set of colors for my prints thus making them easier to mix and match. The Wild & Woodland prints mix and matched with each other, but not with anything else. So say you wanted to get a 123's print, and a hippo print they would not match.

But now, they do! Some of the color changes were minor, and others were not so minor. I really went back and forth about doing it, but in the end I felt it was a change for the better.

The Before Colors:

The After Colors:

All of the animal prints that were altered:

Livin' Large

A Hardy Fellow

Teeny, Tiny, Hoot

This is For You

Prickly, Bristly, and Full of Love

The Weather is Nice Up Here

Spike & Curly

Steady as We Go

The T-Rex, The Brontosaurus, The Triceratops, The Apatosaurus, & The Stegosaurus

Up Up and Away

What do you think of the change?

Do you have a favorite animal? (mine is the Rhino!)

Have any ideas for another animal that would look good with these wild and woodland critters?

It's in the Bag

It's that time again.

Time to photograph and upload a bunch of fun new zippered pouches to the Pine Hill Forest shop!

Here a few of my new favorites:

Check out these and more, here!

Custom Birth Prints

Ever since I had my sweet baby boy I have loved making custom birth prints. It is so fun to design them, and see how customers customize them for their own sweet bundle of joy(s)! Unfortunately I have not finalized one for my own baby (I keep changing my mind, ugh), but until I do I will have to just enjoy seeing what others come up with.

Here are my two latest creations, which you can find in my shop along with my other custom birth prints.

What do you think?!

Free Time

Today something unusual happened.

My sweet little boy decided to take a super long afternoon nap!

Finally, a chance to do some much needed updates to my print shop. The first thing I decided to tackle was my custom birth prints. I recently did a set of prints for a mother of twins and loved the way she customized them so much I added some of her changes to my entire collection of prints (and added the monkeys to list of print options because they are so darn cute!).

Here they are:

What do you think?!

You can find them all here.

Now to see how much else I can accomplish before the little one wakes up . . .

(hint: probably not much!)

J is for:

Jaguar!

Originally a custom order, I loved the finished result of this cute Jaguar so much that I decided to make him a permanent animal in my shop. He is one of two letter J options (the other being the original 'J is for Jellyfish').

Enjoy!

Thad

There's a new member to the monster crew.

His name is Thadeus, and he likes to be called Thad for short.

He's definitely a special crew member as he is the first, and only current member to have "fingers."

Enjoy!

New Cards

Pine Cone and Needles Notecards

Poinsettia Holiday Notecards

Three Little Stockings Notecards

I've finally been able to share some new cards with all of you! Two of them are holiday inspired, and one is a blank card inspired by the wintery months. You can find all of them here. I love them all, but my personal favorite is the pine cone cards. :)

New Series

Oh yes I've been at it again! A while ago I promised you a new animal, and instead I'm giving you a peek at my new series! I had drawn out this beaver some time ago, simply because I wanted to draw an animal with some fun teeth. As I looked at the finished picture it just seemed like it was missing something.

Bored I started making multiple beavers and then it hit me like a ton of bricks. What about a mommy and baby beaver!? And then with that I began making mommy and baby animals instead of my usual solitary animal. I figured while I was at a new series I would test out something else I've wanted to do for some time now. 

Patterned backgrounds.

Yep. You heard me. My solid colored backgrounds are a thing of the past! (at least for this series anyway!) You can now find stripes, plaids, polka dots and perhaps even more down the road. The backgrounds are muted so as to not distract from the animals, but I kind of think it's pretty neat! --Please feel free to shout out your opinions on the new look!

These four sets of mommies and babies are up in my shop. Be on the look out for new sets as I have two in progress at the moment, and lots of doodles for other pairs! Oh I am in love with these guys! Hope you are too!