Bliss Print from Yellena

I just recently received the above print that I ordered from Yellena's etsy shop. I really love her drawings. The colors are bright and fun, and the artwork is almost like advanced doodling (I mean that as a good thing).

I'm starting to collect affordable art pieces. So far, I have a gooco print from Sugarloop, a silkscreened poster from L2, some letterpressed pieces from Manifesto, an art print from Old School Stationers, and some other random stuff of my own creation.

Product of the Week: Snowflake Cards

These cards are one of my favorites. They are foil stamped in pearl foil onto super thick white paper stock.

For the design, I played around with flourishes to create original snowflake designs. I like cutting up decorative fonts and arranging them symmetrically to create more complicated flourishes, and ultimately patterns. I know, pretty dorky. I could spend hours doing this.

Below are some of the snowflakes I created before making my final choice.

Rosebud on Delightful Blogs

I've added Rosebud Design Studio's blog to the Delightful Blog listing. This website is a fun little database of blogs in areas such as fashion, design, food, shopping and travel. It's got a clean and cute layout (love the birdie) so that everything is easy to find. You can check out Rosebud's listing here.

Doggie in the Window

Happy August!

Featured Store: Sugar Paper

I would like to start regularly highlighting stores that are carrying Rosebud Design Studio products. For my first feature, I would like to highlight one of the first stores that took me on - Sugar Paper.

Sugar paper has two locations: Century City, CA and Brentwood, CA. Both shops are adorable, modern, and have a great selection of paper goods and stationery gift items. The Century City location is next door to Clementine Cafe which is a great place to stop for lunch, while the Brentwood store is located in the Brentwood Country Mart which has tons of shops, plus the fabulous City Bakery.

So stop by and ask for some Rosebud product (hehe)!

Sugar Paper also has a web shop in case you aren't in the Los Angeles area.

New Invitations!

Ok, so here are the long promised Versailles inspired wedding invitations. They are printed with four colors and stamped in gold foil. The envelopes are lined with three different marble papers: hot pink, light pink and a deep green/blue with gold flecks.

It's been a while....

Sorry I've been out of touch! Things have been so busy at Rosebud that I haven't had a second for blogging. And now, I'm on the East Coast for a little family vacation. I'll be back on Wednesday with some more fun posts, including the product of the week, featured shop, and some gorgeous new wedding invitations that are all tricked out Marie Antoinette style.

In the meantime, Congrats to Sarah for winning the Lost contest. She guessed correctly the characters from left to right (Danielle, Mikhail, The Black Smoke Monster, and Naomi). I hope you like your Rosebud prize, Sarah, and thanks for playing!

Thanks, Country Living!

Country Living is Featuring Rosebud Design Studio on their home page. Click here to check it out. Thank you!!

Product of the Week - Pirate Cards

This week's Rosebud Design Studio featured products are the Pirate Cards. I really like historical maps (I had been calling them "vintage" maps, but the nice librarian at the UCLA maps library informed me that they are "historical"). I started researching these maps for an invitation I designed for a destination wedding in Hawaii. There are lots of great sites on the web where you can get inspiration (check out my previous post on the topic for some more info).

Also, I really like pirates. And pirate-speak. Did you know that there is a National Talk Like a Pirate Day (September 19th)? I had a lot of fun writing the copy for these cards, researching all the pirate-y words I wanted to use and putting them together....

These particular cards are printed on recycled paper (we are making an earth-friendly effort here at Rosebud HQ), and are for sending birthday greetings, congratulations, and thank yous.

Lost without Lost - Rosebud Mini Contest

A few anonymous commenters have been requesting my YouTube link since I posted by brother's under Post Show Wrap Up. I do not have a YouTube Link (fortunately). I do have the above picture, which is the most embarrassing photo of me (left) I could find that I would still post on this blog.

This photo was taken at the Lost season finale. We all dressed up as different characters from the show. So, I'm going to sponsor a little contest. I will give a Rosebud Design Studio product prize to the person that can correctly guess all four characters shown above. Here are the rules:
1. To win, you must be the FIRST (and only the first) to comment with all four correct answers from left to right.
2. If you are an "anonymous" poster, I won't know who you are, so please leave your name in the post.
3. No friends or family of mine can play.
4. Gift will be determined by me, but it will be a selection of Rosebud product worth about $20.00 - $30.00
5. NO LAUGHING (seriously, people....like you've never dressed up as a Lost character before? Come on....)

Cool Artist: CJ Metzger

Today I had the good fortune to meet C.J. Metzger and go to her studio in Glendale, CA. Her work is amazing, and you can check it out on her website (she says she's going to have a new website lauching this summer with a web store). Her studio is also fantastic, and much of her artwork is hanging up on the walls. I snapped these photos while I was there today. Some of the work is done with her sister, who is also an artist.

C.J. and I are hoping to work together on some cards for Rosebud Design Studio, so I'll keep everyone posted on that.

Vintage Fruit Label Cards

I thought it might be interesting to post a product of the week and give you some insight into the design process/inspiration behind them. So, I'm starting with some of the new products, the Vintage Fruit Label Cards.

Here at Rosebud Design Studio, we (by which I mean "I") have a bit of a problem (read: obsession) with vintage graphics, packaging, etc. You might even have noticed – I wouldn't blame you if you did.

These cards are based on turn of the century fruit and vegetable labels. I found a bunch of excellent reference on the Internet, which you can see below. However, I always like to create something different for Rosebud. In this case, I wanted to add some occasional cards to the line, so I selected fruits I thought I could write "happy birthday", "congrats", "I'm sorry", and anniversary copy for.

Where was this when I was in High School?

Once when I went to the West Hollywood Halloween Parade, I saw a group of people in Marie Antoinette style outfits made entirely of bubble wrap. But this duct tape prom looks cool too.
Do you think they'd let me submit if I promised to give the scholarship money to a high school student? The above photo is one of my favorites from the Stuck on Prom website. But there are many, many more...

Production Time

Since the Stationery Show is over, now I'm deep into production for all the new Rosebud Design Studio items that people ordered. I'll be at it for a while, but orders should start shipping out end of June. Expect an updated list of stores on the Rosebud site soon.

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Above is a photo of the Circus Baby Announcements drying on make-shift clothes lines in my apartment. Usually, I send everything out to be printed, but these were hand silkscreened by myself and my lovely assistant Kaz. It was backbreaking labor. The clothes lines started to sag because of the weight of the paper, and you literally had to crawl underneath them all to attach more for drying purposes. What we do for paper products and design.