January 27, 2012

Crafty Girls: Valentine's

[My 2 favorite inspiration bc I love astronomy! Sources are below]
Friday night, I'm hosting Craft Night at my place for 8 ladies of varying crafting skills. Last time, only 1 person actually crafted while everyone drank wine and chitchatted, so this time, I offered 2 choices - painting Valentine's cards/gifts and making necklaces.

Some Valentine's day inspiration I will have up for the girls (and myself!):
* = easy    -    ** = medium      -     *** = difficult, but still do-able
* Easy Valentine's day text with flowers - Studio Slo Mo
* If your Mom is your Valentine! - Fugu Fugu Press
* Paint the background, then write the text - Studio Slo Mo
* Scattered Hearts - Shortgrass Designs
* Cute pattern, you can write anything - Anemone Letterpress
** Handmade stripes - Social Proper
** Cheese McCheese Venn Diagram - Anemone Letterpress
*** Assorted cards - Rifle Paper Co
*** Watercolor Hearts - Social Proper
*** More complex bu do-able painting with a cheeeesy line - Our Paper Shop
*** Stars pictured above - Quill and Fox, Collen Ellse

P.S. Quill and Fox's aesthetic is uncomfortably similar to Rifle Paper Co.... design theft or no?

Edit: Yas from Quill and Fox emailed me and provided some more information on her design process:
"I've always been inspired by UPA styles and anything reminiscent of Little Golden Book things. I like to channel a lot of Wes Anderson's very straight on art direction most of the time too"
"I wish there some way I can show you how I decide on the colors and what to draw, but a lot of these happen organically and with no calculated copying."
"Rifle and I can easily run into the same images as with any, but what makes it jarring for people is that we also draw kind of the same way." 
Not to make a purposely pretentious analogy, but would you think that all impressionist painters copied Monet? Probably not. Anyway, thanks Yas for your sweet emails!

4 comments:

  1. agreed. quill and fox are complete design thieves. the hello cards are the obvious give away that this was no coincidence. This breaks my heart.

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  2. if i were rifle paper co i would be pissed. also, i'm uncomfortable with how many people on the internet gleefully note that quill and fox reminds them of rifle paper co.

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    1. I guess I'm not around the internet enough to have seen others who have noticed the similarities - gleefully or not. links?

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  3. These comments were just updated yesterday.

    http://www.creaturecomfortsblog.com/home/2011/12/15/in-good-company-quill-fox.html

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