The postcards are here and they are beautiful!!! The much anticipated finale to our insanely huge PROJECT # 5 – Free Encouragement. Thank you to all of you who submitted designs to Erin (designformankind) and to the hundreds of you who submitted encouraging words during the first part of the project! You can get these very limited edition postcards at our ETSY SHOP! Better hurry, once they’re gone, they’re gone.

The postcards are all beautifully printed, gloss finish, and come in packs of 5 – each individually sealed and then shipped in a stiff cardboard package so they won’t be all bent when you get them.

Contributing artists (credited on each postcard):

Natasha Mileshina
Jewell Karinen
Gemma Correll
Jen Collins
Joetta Maue
Dennis de Groot
Sarah Brown
Christa Jonathan
Forestter Cobalt

Images of all 10 postcards below:

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I just saw these beautiful little drawing tops, created by Thomas Forsyth, posted over at It’s Nice That. They are for sale on Etsy! I snagged a video clip of the tops in action below!

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I have very little information about Labokoff. I just stumbled upon her work on etsy. I do know that most of the images are little pieces of France. Enjoy the great combination of photography and painting.

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I meant to post about this earlier, I got my Cheetah print from Ryan Berkley! Now I just gotta go out and get a frame for it! “After cataract surgery ten years ago, this cheetah realized that an eyepatch can be a real conversation starter with the ladies. His eye has long since healed but his social calendar remains quite full.” Can’t say enough about this stuff – make sure you swing by the Berkley Illustration Etsy page!

I noticed some new prints went up this month as well! Take a look at them below!

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Not too long ago I spotlighted (spotlit?) the leatherwork of Ken Diamond. This time the spotlight falls on A Farmer’s Daughter aka the featherwork of Melanie Hull. I first came across Melanie’s work in the local paper and immediately wanted to see her work in person.

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My vote for best new (relatively new) site goes to Etsy. If you’re looking to buy or sell anything handmade this is the newest addition to your selection of bookmarks. When I came across the work of Ryan Berkley I had to go lie down for awhile. This is the coolest series I’ve seen in a long time. I am really tempted to buy every single one of his illustrations of animals in suits. Someone shoulda told Wes Anderson to hire Berkley to help art direct Fantastic Mr. Fox – as much as I am a Wes Anderson fan there is no way Anderson’s characters will look as cool as these:

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