Package Design: Flying Bird Botanicals

Flying Bird Botanicals is a  family-run business that offers handcrafted 100% organic fair trade herbal tea blends. All the products are made with locally sourced herbs when possible in small batches to ensure the highest quality in a cottage shop based in Bellingham, Washington. I adore their package design. The beautiful labels are designed by Carly James of Bison Bookbinding & Letterpress and printed on recycled paper. The tin containers are adorned with illustrations of owl, bird, landscapes etc on a white background in a calming and soothing color scheme. The tea selection shown above can be ordered from their online store.

DIY Fauna Stamp Set

This is an easy tutorial on how to make your stamps that I found on Little Yellow Couch a website owned by a talented duo of Zandra and Karen. To make your own stamps may seem like a daunting task but after you take a look at this tutorial you'll see it's not that hard. All you'll need to make your stamps is a set of tools, some paper, a pencil and a template which can be printed from the same link given above. The template has patterns for a mushroom, an owl and other creatures. The stamps can be used to decorate notecards, envelopes or to make any other stationery item.

Printable Recipe Owl Card

Today's freebie is this cute owl recipe card by Lisa of Cooking Up Cottage. This is fun recipe card with owl and bunting print to share your favorite recipes with your friends and family. They are perfect to organize your recipe collection or simply fill up a card with the recipe of the homemade baked goodies that you plan on giving away. You can download the full size card and print it for free from here.

You can find a recipe card that you can fill before printing, you can go here.

Cut Paper Illustrations by Maude White

Buffalo based paper artist Maude White cuts exquisite art pieces often depicting owls, birds and leaves. Each piece is hand cut with extreme precision giving her work a delicate and feather light feel. Her detailed illustrations can consist of thousands of minute cuts using just a craft knife. 

From artists's webiste: "I come from a family of visual storytellers. I have always believed that our vision is as important as our hearing when we communicate. Very rarely do we rely on words alone. It is what we see, and how our brains interpret what we see that shapes our perceptions and actions. I began cutting paper with that understanding. I want my art to communicate to the observer what my words cannot do effectively."

She has an online store Brave Bird Paperwork where she sells her cutting. You can view more of her work in her portfolio and get news about her new pieces by joining her on Instagram.

The Art of Don Pendelton

New York Skyline

After the Storm

Geometry of Light

 Lost in the Kingdom

Uncloudy Day

Castle

Mutability

American artist Don Pendleton is a considered a legend for his work for skateboard graphics, murals, conceptual art and installations. His signature cubist*, expressionist** style is a perfect combination of simplicity as well as chaos. His pieces often have characters, animals, insects in his unique, distinctive style, colors, geometric shapes and lines that appear to be hidden at first glance. His fans will instantly recognize his triangle owls an iconic design used on several surfaces from sporting goods to apparels. 

*Cubism= a style of painting or sculpture developed in the early 20th century characterized by the reduction of natural forms to their geometric equivalents.

**Expressionism= a style of painting, music, or drama in which the artist seeks to express emotional experience, rather than impressions of the external world.

He is currently a freelance  artist who has worked with Alien Workshop, Element Skateboards, Zero Skateboards, Mountain Dew, Heroin Skateboards, Oakley, Nike 6.0, Gravis, Burton, K2, DVS Shoes and Etnies to name a few. He has participated in exhibitions across the globe and his work has been featured in Slap Magazine, The Skateboard Mag, Transworld, Color, Streetwear Today, Lodown Magazine and other online publications.

You can learn about his work and read more about him on his website - elephont.com.

"Everyday Party" Fabric Collection

"Everyday Party" is a sweet collection of nursery fabric designed by Emily Isabella. She is an illustrator and textile designer whose products can be seen at Target, Birch Fabric, and Tigerprint. 

'Everyday Party' is her second designed collection for Birch Fabric. The collection was designed around the idea of turning everyday life's ordinary moments into celebrations and features ten designs (three of them also come in knit option). The fabric is made of 100% organic cotton featuring featuring owls, strawberry, meadow, ants, birds, bears, mushroom etc. It's perfect for nursery, clothing, quilting or any other craft project that you could think of. You can find all the products for the collection here.

Cecelia Webbers: Owls and Flowers From Human Nudes

'Owl'

'Night Owl'

'Cherry Blossom'

Detail of "Cherry Blossom'

'Cardinal'

'Monarch'

'Flower'

'Sunflower'

'Hummingbird'

Good morning friends, I hope you all had a wonderful weekend. Last night, I had a pleasure of discovering the amazing work of a Los Angeles based artist Cecelia Webber. Her Human Bodies Artwork is a series of the digital photographic images of owls, butterflies, flowers, plants composed entirely with photographs of naked human body. Each composition may take up to 700 layered images to get the desired results and two months of painstaking process of cutting digital cutting, rotating and coloring the images before they are assembled together. 

The artist says: “I began creating my compositions after noticing that a photo I had taken of my back looked like a petal. From there, I became fascinated by the practice of trying to create organic imagery with greater and greater accuracy.” With her artwork, she wants to make people aware of their complex connection to nature and understand their responsibility towards it by making environmentally friendly choices. Also, she hopes that her work will inspire humans to create a positive image of them and cultivate an ability to look at nudity as comforting, vulnerable, and beautiful.