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Free Printable Valentine Cards & Love Notes

Amy — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 12:15:16 +0000

We’re excited to have more great free printables for Valentines Day today!

I DO Invitations by Michelle has created some cute Valentine Cards, Love Notes and Digital Paper for you to enjoy!

Thanks for the exclusive Valentine freebies Michelle!!

Download the Free Valentines

** Important – Be sure to right click and save the file to your desktop. Then open the file and print for the image to print the correct size.

Happy Valentines Day!

Nancy Pfeifer is a talented mom and party planner from Arizona and founder of A to Zebra Celebrations and MyPartyIsOver.com, a place for everyone who loves to recycle and reuse party decor. She loves planning parties for her two daughters! Follow Nancy on Facebook and Twitter.

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Also, be sure to check out Printables by Amy! Find easy and affordable digital files to download and print at home or at your local quick print shop. Each product is custom designed by Amy, a professional graphic designer. Amy makes do-it-yourself projects a breeze!

Free Printable Business Cards

Amy — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 12:30:29 +0000

Ever wish you had a template for a cute business card or calling card?

I designed a few that you can easily print at home in just a short few minutes!

Editable text fields allow you to enter any info you would like, up to four lines of text.

And yes, I mean anything! Okay, I had a little fun with these…

Download the Free Printable Business Cards

Designed to be printed at home. ©LivingLocurto.com For personal use only.

These cards are designed to fit on Avery Color Laser Perforated Business Card Paper. Make sure you get the set with 8 cards per page. Or you can print on thick matte paper and trim yourself.

Modern Baby Shower Ideas {Free Party Printables}

Courtney — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 07:00:00 +0000

Baby showers are such a joyous occasion to celebrate!

Glowing mom-to-be and sweet friends get together to enjoy sweet treats, open baby gifts, and share advice for mom-to-be. If you are the hostess, however, it may be tough to pick a theme, decorate, coordinate food, and all the logistics that go with throwing a baby shower!

Well, we’re here to help! We’ve rounded up some darling (and free!) baby shower printables. Simply print, cut, and party!

These Elephant Baby printables by Ellen Baker via Alpha-Mom are perfect for decorating a baby shower!

Bold prints are in! These cute baby shower printables (in girl theme too!) are available via Hostess With the Mostess.

Send baby shower guests home with a sweet chocolate bar wrapped in these free and customizable candy bar wrappers from Rachel Ray Magazine!

Print a few of these designs and you’ll be on your way to a stylish, chic baby shower!

About Courtney

With a love of entertaining, Courtney is quickly becoming a well-known stylist in the field of party design and décor. Find Courtney on Pizzazzerie, Twitter & Facebook.

Interview with Yasmine from A Print A Day

Amy — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 03:09:48 +0000

Yasmine is one of the nicest, most inspiring artists and bloggers I know. I’m thrilled to have her here today! Not only does Yasmine have a wonderful blog with some of the best free printables on the web, she also publishes cool online magazines, designs the most adorable scrapbook kits, and has now launched a line of beautiful fabrics. This talented California artist is one amazing woman, I hope you enjoy learning more about her.

When did you start A Print A Day, what inspired you?

I started APAD about two years ago. I was burnt out doing commercial design work that I wanted to just draw without having to think of money or being critiqued and all that. And it’s been a great experience so far. I’ve been given so many opportunities, and I’ve met so many creative people. I’m quite glad I started my blog.

You are so talented and have such a unique illustration style. Did you always have this style or did it evolve over time? What artists have inspired you along the way?

I love the work of Henry Darger, Gregory Blackstock…I love outsider and folk art. I love Native American, Pennsylvania Dutch, Russian folk art. I also love the illustrations of Arthur Rackham, Babar, and the like. I also read a lot of Japanese Manga and indie Euro comics. Oh and Lisa Frank. I love that stuff.

My style started out different. I read a lot of comic books, like Uncanny Xmen, Spiderman, Archie and all that. And when I was a kid, my style emulated the handwork done in comics. My mom is an animator and my dad is an architect, and they’ve influenced me quite a bit as well.

When I was a teenager, I discovered underground comics, ‘zines, handmade publications, graffiti, punk rock and this was a time when I changed my style. I think it became more natural and not as comic book-ish. I loved the awkward handmade nature of these indie publications. There were typos and cutting and pasting and screen printing errors and all that. It shows human mistakes. I love that sort of thing especially when everything is so digitized and perfect nowadays.

After I graduated from college, I had a choice of working in the animation industry or to be an illustrator at a toy company. I chose the latter. I worked at Lisa Frank for a couple of years. It was a pretty interesting experience. I drew a lot of rainbows, bunnies and unicorns. I also got to work with some cool people–one of whom inspired me to do my own thing.

Speaking of unique, I’ve always wondered about the illustration on your home page. Why the bunnies coming out of machine guns?

My header…I try to stay away from things that are too saccharine sweet and pretty, even though I like “prettiness”. I think it’s because when it comes to doing business, a lot of the companies I work with always demand “pretty” and clean. So every once in a while, I’ll add a creepy Victorian house or an automatic weapon popping out bunnies and rainbows in my personal work.

Tell us more about you. Do you have a boyfriend, husband, kids, cats, dogs? What’s your day job? What do you do for fun?

I am married to a sculptor. We met in college. I have 2 cats and and an 80 lb dog who thinks he’s a cat. We live in a tiny house in the Bay Area but our art studio is in Phoenix. Throughout my career, I’ve been an illustrator, toy designer, textile designer and accessories designer. Before shifting to the creative field, I considered geophysical engineering or the foreign service. Aside from art, I love science, history, reading on current events. But the creative field won me over–I was making a good living as an illustrator and designer prior to graduating designing rave and club fliers as I knew a number of promoters at the time. I loved working with club promoters–they pretty much let me have free reign.

For fun I like to not do anything. My schedule is usually packed so time spent just sitting around is quite a relief. It allows me to rest and be inspired. My husband and I do try to make time for quick out of town jaunts in Northern California. Sometimes we go to galleries or explore local neighborhoods. We also like to eat. And the Bay Area has a LOT of great little mom n’ pop restaurants. I love Indian food, food trucks and farmers’ markets. And there’s lots of those here.

You have so many projects going on… a blog, a huge digital magazine, an online shop and now fabric. What are somethings you do to balance all this with family life?

I’m very fortunate to have a very patient husband who understands where I’m coming from as he’s an artist himself–and a very busy one at that. We do try to make sure that we spend as much time with each other as we possibly can. He’s my best friend and one of the most important people in my life. So we have each other as a priority above everything else. But of course we have to eat and pay the bills too,
and we love what we do, so we work long hours. A lot.

What is the MOST fun thing that has happened since starting A Print a Day?

I would have to say that a lot of business opportunities came up since launching the blog. It also allowed me to meet a lot of creative people whom I wouldn’t have had the chance to meet due to geography. I’ve had the opportunity to make friends and work with some people from France, Germany, the Philippines, Malaysia and here in the US. I love that. I love meeting new people. It’s been a great experience overall. I’m glad wonderful things came about after all that initial frustration prior to starting my blog. It helps when you share a bit of yourself with others.

What are three of your most favorite designs or posts?

My favourites are my free matryoshka calendar (I love Russian nesting dolls).

My first Parasol•Craft cover.

And the first fabrics I’ve produced.

What’s in store for you? Any big plans you can give us scoop on?

More fabric, handmade ‘zines, my online mags, collaborations and various unmentionables. My plate is pretty full as of late and I try not to think way ahead. I also do hope to continue meeting new people, and promote creative individuals in the process through Prarasol•Craft and ParasolMag.

Thanks Yasmine for taking the time to talk to me. I hope my readers are as inspired by you as much as I have been since finding your blog. You’re the best! – Amy

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We have a Giveaway Winner!!

Congrats to Holly on winning:-) She plans to choose a princess party pack for her 2 year old. Have fun Holly!

Halloween Printables & Fun

Amy — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 09:30:36 +0000

It’s October! Time for Halloween fun!!!

One Pretty Thing has an adorable Halloween Food Round-Up! I can’t decide what I’ll make this year?

With a little editing, Toni from Design Dazzle used my “Save the Date” Download for her Witch Tea Party invite. It turned out really good!

Download my original save the date graphic here.

Jenn from Ambrosia Girl created a cute spider printable you could use for invites also.

Vanessa from A Fanciful Twist has the cutest Halloween printables. You will be amazed by all of her magical Halloween decor!

This printable invite from the Cottage Industrialist is super cute!

LollyChop’s Halloween Tags are Terrorific!

These printable Halloween Masks by Fantasy Jr. are super scary!

Don’t forget my owl tags from last year. I still love these!

I could go on and on with all of the awesome Halloween things I’ve been finding, but I’m busy making my own creations. I will be featuring them all very soon. Yay!

Costume Ideas Wanted

I’m going to put up a Mr. Linky next Thursday, October 8th. I’d love for you all to link posts of your previous year’s Halloween costumes! I’m sure you have some creative, funny thing to share. I’d sure love to get some new ideas and feature some of you here. So if you can find old photos and posts, I’d love to have you link them here next week! Thanks.

Have a great rest of the week!

Amy