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update : new cards + how I keep my cards

Hey there!

these are some of the new cards I've made, not necessarily for Valentine's Day though.

You can view more at my shop.

The pack of cards I've made throughout the year :
I keep them in plastic sleeves and store them in a cardboard box.

update : shop packaging

Hello everyone, and Happy Chinese New Year!

I took a photo of my shop packaging this morning :

I made my shop's business card by myself on a shoe-string budget. It's a little plain, but I rather like the minimal design. I stamped ivory pre-cut cards with the logo, and then drew brackets around it with a metallic gold paint marker. 

The muslin drawstring bag is handmade too, though not by me. 

So this is how you will receive your purchase when you buy something from Crane & Fox. :-) 

update : half baked idea.

Hello!

I've just finished painting a few brooches as prototypes, and the result? Animals in neon colors. I like it, but not lovin' it. :-( Any ideas? I was thinking of adding metallic tones to them, sort of like color blocking.

I'm terribly sorry about the terrible terrible color quality! The horse is supposed to be smooth and glazed (not speckled and offensively reflective), and the moose (the green thing is indeed, a moose. not some nose boogey) is supposed to be brighter shade of green.

I've been pinning these little brooches together in clusters on my bag, and I'm loving the result! :-) A few more adjustments, and it should be store-worthy. What do you think?

update : brooches

Been working on brooches this past week, and I'm finally starting to see some progress and improvements on them. The first few (unfortunate) ones were so horribly deformed and ugly that I felt inclined to smash them to smithereens and bury them in the garden. Lest anyone sees them and pukes all over my crafting desk. 

Anyway, most of the brooches are in the shapes of animals, and I originally wanted to paint them in their natural colors. Sadly, I'm not a great artist. And needless to say, the brooches were a failure. They looked no different from ordinary tourist fridge magnets. Eek. 

After some thought, I decided to color them with some pop/artsy colors, and make them into pop/artsy brooches. That was much much better, but there's still room for improvement. Lots of room. 

While the brooches won't be making an appearance in the shop soon (you might puke all over your computer, and I'm pretty sure the warranty doesn't cover that), I've got a new bunch of cards coming up soon for Valentine's Day! :-)

Oh, and I've just designed the handmade muslin drawstring bags with the shop logo, will show you the pics soon! Utterly in love with them. So cute!

Enjoy the weekend!

Shop Update : The Tribal Series

The Tribal Series

Finally! I've been working on this series for about a month, planning, designing, photographing.. and to see them finally become real and tangible is really satisfying for me. I know this series is very different from my usual creations, which are vintage-esque charm necklaces, but I'm so glad that I tried something new!
*Squeals of Delight!*

I wanted to go for something modern, elegant, and casual but rough around the edges. Not commercial-like. And these necklaces have a little bit of all those things : chic and organic. Of course there were smooth gemstone beads available, but I decided that the raw, untreated ones were prettier! I wanted to name it The Crystal Series, but thought that The Tribal Series sounded earthier.

I was hunting around the house for the perfect background to photograph the new necklaces, and I found it on the top of my wooden IKEA shelves. :-)

Made these with Amethyst, Citrine, Turquoise, and Natural Quartz, mined from Brazil! Exciting!