Pinspiration #3

Cute as a bunny

I am so in love with all the craft ideas on Pinterest. I have loads on my board. Hoping to one day have the time to actually make a few. I found lovely cute felt bunnies. Some very minimal, others cute and fluffy. They inspired me to some wallart for the nursery.

A little patched up and cuddled a lot. I can so imagine my baby girl having this toy for real to hug it. She is very much into bunnies (although cows are her absolute number 1 animal). I might want to make an illustration on that to. For her room.

Elja

Pinspiration #2

Nothing more beautiful then the promise of new life. 

Todays inspiration comes from the beautiful quotes on Pinterest and the amazing pictures of pregnant women. Being a mother I can really relate to the feelings. My pregancies did not all come easy, nor did they go as planned but the end result was worth all the waiting and tears.
I used the pictures on Pinterest as an inspiration for the new illustration. I am thinking to turn it into a birthannouncement or a greetingcard maybe. It would be cool to have your own personalized cards you can send out. You can order your personal picture via www.yourdayinaframe.nl
Still have to think about that though.

Pinspiration #1

The past year have been a lovely rocky road for me. The beginning of the year was dedicated to the startup of my business. Doing what I love and be inspired by the world around me. It took me a while to find my niche. My sweetspot.
It turned out to be illustration happy moments. Special moments. Or not so special moments that you want to remember. In the middle of the year Your day in a frame was born.
To make and keep memories.
This year I will be expanding the happy memories. I am thinking of birthannouncements, births, and all moments that are worth saving.

To start the new year of good I let myself be inspired on Pinterest. I try to take a pin every day (or at least every few days) and give it a go.

For the first day of the year I have let a pin inspire me to some advice for my little girl. I sure hope she takes most of it for granted.

Your day in a frame

During the last months I was busy with a new project. I was working on designing birthannouncement and during one of those still moments where no babies were born I worked on an illustration of a shoppinglady. She turned out so nice that I desided to draw another one. A "What I wore today" illustration. 

And since my sweet little girl was also dressed nicely I drew her too.

 

The next day I did some nice things so instead of a "What I wore today" I drew a "What I did today" for me and her. The reactions were overwhelming and I desided to make a business out of it. To turn an ordinary day into an extraordinary day and save it for the future. Save all the cute things your baby says or does. Save a memory that you normally would forget.
Your day in a frame was born.

Take a look at my site if you like. (it is in dutch now. Working on a translation).

Elja van der Laan

Inspiration Wednesday

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

Benjamin Disraeli

For this inspiration wednesday I started to look for some DIY stuff to do with the kids. The weather here is dreadfull so we need a lot of indoor activity. At pinterest I save a special board for these days. Here are some of my nicest finds.
All pictures link back to the original website it was posted on.

Being inspired myself now I am going to design a printable for some partylights. We need some light in these (still) dark days.

Greetings Elja

A little birdie told me..

A little birdie told me..

that Valentine's day is here.

Last week I gave myself a spontanious assignment to make a free valentine's day give away for each day untill Valentine's day. And now that day is here.

I did not get tons of cards in the mailbox but I had a lovely day with a friend. Talking about future plans for the site we have for birthannouncements. It will take some work from my part because I want to redesign the whole site and make it more customerfriendly. But if we succeed it will be more easy to find the cards.
And in between I designed about 5 cards for the site and a free giveaway card for an event I am joining on Friday. I have to present myself (ieks) and decided to make a card to break the ice. I cannot show it now but I will for sure later on in the week.

For todays free giveaway I made a little birdie basket. Fill it with candy (again *I know*) or small notes you want to keep.

You can download the basket here. Have fun and have a LOVEly day.
ELja

Bookmark for valentine's day

If you were thinking about someone while reading this, you're definitely in Love.

Only one more day to go for my Valentine's Day countdown. So far I had a blast creating stuff and I intent to keep up with creating freebies on a regular basis. Not daily I think but once or twice a week for sure. So please come back for more, bookmark the site or visit my etsyshop.

Todays project was a bookmark for all the lovestories. Or other books but for now make it lovestories. A good way to remenber where you were.

You can download the bookmarks here.

Greetings Elja