Its's a jungle in here!

It is the season to be jolly!  And the season for giveaways;) I am giving away two personalised height charts from my online baby shop https://www.gifts4baby.ie. Details below Go to my page  and -  A great baby or kids gift this Christmas! Two height charts to giveaway. Personalised with child's name.  To win your chart please-  LIKE & SHARE this page/post. More information on my kids heights here   My kids height charts are very large, laminated for durability and ready to stick on the wall with the sticky pads provided. Your kids height chart can be marked with biro, permanent marker, pencil and stickers. They are a great gift for a child and can be personalised with baby or kids name.

Just a quick post. I have at last sat down and painted some new work. All to be revealed soon! Here is the artwork of my soon to be, new dinosaur growth chart, to add to my Growth Chart Category . A lot more work to be done on it, I better get working!

Rolling ! I haven't quite been on a roll this week but have managed to finish my new growth chart - Rolling. I am trying to offer a larger range of growth charts to my customers and have been illustrating away on this new image to add to the range. The idea was in my head for ages and I just had to get it down on paper. It has taken me a couple of weeks to illustrate and will be for sale on my children's art online shop in the next week or so. I am also thinking of offering wallpaper to my customers. I would love to see my illustrations filling up a whole wall. I have to illustrate some new images for the wallpaper, so I am eager to get started. The company Digi Tile will be producing the wallpaper, their work is amazing. It would be great to hear your opinions on Rolling , it has been wonderful getting all your comments on my blog. I love hearing your thoughts so please leave some more!

New growth chart design to add to my Wall Growth Chart category. This has taken me forever to do but at last it is finished. I feel like the lion on top of the chart- very happy! From the first post a few days ago to this finished growth chart, what do you think? The next step is to send it to my printer for a proof, then if I am happy with the quality of the print it will go into production. I will let you know when it is available for sale on my online shops- CarlaDaly.com and CarlaDaly.co.uk PLEASE leave a comment.

New growth chart design to add to my Wall Growth Chart category. Phew, is right, it has taken me a long time to get my new growth chart finished and guess what it isn't finished yet! I thought it would be nice to show you the progession of the chart. This is the first stage completed, the illustration of my image. The next stage (which I will blog about later in the week) will be the completed chart. I will have added the cm and inches to the growth chart and it will be ready to go to the printers. I would love to hear what people think about it so far? Please leave a comment.

Above- How I fell this week! Last week everything was geat I was on a roll, creativity and sales were on a high. Well, I took a little dive this week, I had to dump my growth chart illustration that I had been working on and in the process lost over a weeks work, it drives me crazy when this happens! To add to this my seo company have not been doing the seo work they had claimed they were doing on my .com site selling nursery art ! Sometimes I could pull my hair out! On the upside, I have started on a new idea for my next growth chart illustration and have a great idea for a second growth chart, so everything isn't so black! It is good to struggle with a drawing as it makes your next one better. (I hope!) Relating to a blog post I did earlier about getting a licensing agent, I haven't done much on that front yet, but did add a page to my website about licensing my art . Please take a look.

Rough artwork for my next growth chart design. Wow, my week has been great. Sales on my online shops selling nursery art have been brisk. So, I am juggling kids, painting, packing and delivering orders, blogging and twittering! This week on the creative side - I want to create two new illustrations for my growth chart range. I am starting with a circus growth chart and am undecided about the second growth chart illustration. The first illustration I have been painting is on a circus theme, I have been illustrating it for over a week now and still have a lot more work to do. Crocodile growth chart You can see a very early rough of my illustration above. This shows you how I start my ideas. I work over and over on a black and white rough until my layout is decided. I then start to paint in the black and white line. For my growth charts I us traditional paint methods with adobe photoshop. I paint the image first and then I add the cm and inches with the adobe photoshop. For this c...

I have written about designing and promoting my online shop , I now want to write about my products I sell through my online store. I started my online business producing 30 x 40cm (12" x 16") wall prints for babies nursery rooms and children's bedrooms. I realized very quickly that I needed to offer a wider range of products to my customers. One product that I was keen to add to my range was illustrated, wall growth charts. The idea of my online shop is to sell affordable art that everyone can enjoy. So, all my products have to be produced for a very reasonable price, have to be lightweight and small for posting. Growth charts are rather large so how would I over come all the above obstacles? I had to design a product that looked great, functioned and could be easily transported. My first attempt was a paper chart rolled up and posted in a tube. This was okay, but I didn't like that it was rolled and hard for my customer to put up. The second attempt was a fold...