Happy new year, everyone! I hope 2009 brings you everything you’re hoping for, including: free jars of icing, lots of radio listening, millions of mars daydreams, kindness from strangers, smiles from doggies, and finding hidden candy corn.

Here’s the thank you card I made for everyone who was especially kind to me over the holidays:

Exciting close up!!!!:

Based on the little faces doodles I did a little while ago, which I drew over and colored in Illustrator. Then mounted on blue card stock.

Here’s a one-sided thank you card I made. I wrote in the 2nd frame with a nice brown pen. It was awesome.

You can use it for your own thank you cards if you want! Don’t sell it on the thank-you-card black market. Everyone deserves to be thanked for something. Click to make larger, yeah.

A day late to posting, but I was a day early to giving, haha! I hope everyone had a fine Father’s Day. Here’s the card I made for my awesome dad:

Pattern & text (Adobe Garamond) done in Illustrator. Texture is from a wash I did using moist tissue paper and allowing it to get all wacky. I printed the whole shebang on cream card stock, wrote on the back, and stuck it in a yellow envelope. I like that it turned out to be a little bit disorienting, similar to that classic optical illusion. Scintillating!

Here is the Mother’s Day card & envelope I made for my awesome mom:

Materials used: colored card stock, Komon print Chiyogami paper, Aitoh mesh orgiami paper, white gel pen. Lettering is gel pen over Adobe Garamond Pro. Oh, how I love you, white gel pen! Less than I love my mom, but a lot.

This is a monster holding the card & envelope I made today. I recommend using white gel pens. No gloomy mood is impervious to the opaque, smooth glide of white ink. You can get them at one of my favorite internet stores: jet pens. I also recommend Bionicles. Oh man, I wish the bionicle were wearing a monocle.

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