30 March 2014

Alphabet Art prints and giveaway

**UPDATE (trumpet sounds and other fanfare)**
Needle and Nest, Leonie and Smilie, your names have been drawn as the winners and that ain't no April Fool's joke. Congratulations guys, I will be in touch to find out your addresses soon. Now you have joined that exclusive club of people that never win anything except for really stink prizes that no-one else wants anyway. Thank you to everyone else for your lovely words of encouragement. It means a great deal (air kisses all round).

** Denotes Really Important Announcement

Would you like to see some prints that I have been working on? Simple idea, I know, but I have looked online and found nothing similar so this may well be an original concept. Bow down, bow down. Or, no-one has done it yet because it is a stink idea. You probably could make them yourselves or at least variations of them, but I really hope you won't because that would make me sad since I have decided to have a go at selling a small run of these in my Felt store. Yes, negative, mean girl voices in my head, take that.

Here is my A B C D E F JOY print, available in pink and teal. I think they would look really great hanging up in a nursery. The pink bird in the photo is pretending it hasn't noticed that it just got supplanted in the Coolest-Thing-in-the-Room stakes.
Yeah, that's right, you take those machine-embroidered stick legs and keep on walking.
As a young girl, I spent far too much time idolising other people and trying to emulate them. Entirely normal behaviour, but still a total waste of energy, emotion and hair product. My hope for my own children is for them to have the courage to follow their own path in this world. I could see this Be You print hanging in any room in the house.
This weekend was a bit of an exercise in experimenting with colour, resolution quality and having card stock resting nicely in the printer without spilling out onto the floor and getting dented. Some copies of the Be You print did not make the grade, so I was wondering if any of you, my loyal followers, would like one? Then, when I am famous and people are clamouring for my original art, you can lay claim to owning my first rejects. I have three of them to give away and will ship them anywhere in the world. Just leave me a comment. Winners will be announced in a couple of days, depending on the level of interest.

12 comments:

  1. They're gorgeous! What a beautiful idea :) I too have wasted too much time trying to be like others, to achieve in the same way they have, instead of forging my own path. Here's to our own paths!

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  2. What a great idea! Your prints are awesome and I would love to have one for my little girl's room. Thanks for the chance to win it!

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  3. Id love one of your prints. Thanks so much for the chance to win a print!

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  4. my daughter has triplets and that is a sentiment that will be her mantra for a very long time. I actually love the imperfection of the print you show vs that "perfect" joy print.

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  5. These are lovely - awesome giveaway :)

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  6. Great idea Leanne, I hope that you do really well with these and that no one copies you. Don't enter me, not because I don't think that they are great, but it would be way to expensive to post this to me! xx

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  7. Clever you! They are awesome - and so is a shop and prints ups for grabs! Love it Leanne :) And totally agree, hope our girls don't waste as much time and effort being something they're not in time to come :)

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  8. Pick me, pick me! Hahahaa. They are gorgeous, I especially love the be you one. You are clever

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  9. Oops, published before I was finished! Was going to say you are very clever to come up with such a lovely design. Simple, beautiful and inspirational xxx

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  10. Hi Leanne, I've made some alphabet print things for presents before. Of course I got the idea from pinterest as I have no original ideas. But I think you are so clever with your words you could be on a winner. This is the first time I've checked in here for a while (I've generally stopped checking blogs- I know) and you're giving something away. good timing!

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  11. Good scheme on the art keeping. Like the simplicity of words and letters!

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  12. Gorgeous! Wonderful! So clever! I'm off to your Felt store right now...

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