Illustration Friday: blur

When I am not wearing my glasses life takes on a nice blur.

Believe it or not, when I was young I was in a little band called "Blind Burning". We wrote songs and recorded them in a recording studio that is for students at UCLA. We also had a little home recording studio and it was a lot of fun. We entered one of our songs for a contest in Musician Magazine, a popular mag that some of you might remember and we made it pretty far in the competition. But the band broke up and that was the end of my band career :( This is the cover art I made for the contest to go along with our song. My submission for Illustration Friday's "blur" theme. 1982 Valerie Walsh

Winners of the Uprinting Postcard Giveaway!

I have very good news for Jannie Ho and Heather because they both have won 100 full color postcards from Uprinting! Congratulations to the both of you and I am excited to see your finished images and I hope you will show me what you come up with so get your images together and have fun!

winter home gift tag copyright 2008 Valerie Walsh

Illustration Friday: skinny

This is a blast from the past, 1995 to be precise. When John managed Lode they used to make flyers to get people to come to their gigs. This was for Halloween and I turned each person from the band into a pumpkin :) Inara George was the lone girl in the band and she is the SKINNY pumpkin and all the rest are the boys: Gabe Cowan, Robin Moxey and Lon Baker. Sometimes the bands artist friends would make the flyers and sometimes John would come knocking on my door to ask if I could crank out a quick flyer to advertise the band and I would happily make art for the group. We did lots of them :) I kept them all because they were so talented and I knew they would make it and they have, just not together. Good Times. This incorporates Halloween and skinny in one fell swoop for Illustration Friday's "skinny" theme. Here is Lode courtesy of Geffen Records.

1995 Valerie Walsh

Winner of the Uprinting Sticker Giveaway!

This is a frightfully good Halloween because Amy Cartwright is the winner of the Uprinting Sticker Giveaway! John pulled Amy's name from the 5 women that placed comments and she has won 250 full color stickers. Hoping you show us your stickers when you have finished them Amy because I know they are gonna be great! Happy Halloween and Congratulations :)

PumpkinHouse Place Cards by Valerie Walsh copyright 2009

Illustration Friday: Fast

A "fast" GROWING and very GREEN trend are PUMPKIN Houses. Grow one today!
Steve Millers Pumpkin House

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"Pumpkin House with Tar the cat" Stationary Card for Monday Artday Stationary 2009 Valerie Walsh

"Pumpkin House with Topanga Crow" Stationary Card for Monday Artday Stationary 2009 Valerie Walsh

Submissions for Illustration Friday's "Fast" theme.

Just want to mention that JC & Doodlestreet won the Business Card Giveaway and Diana Evans won the Greeting Card Giveaway! So please sign up for the Sticker Giveaway and the Postcard Giveaway all sponsered by Uprinting and you can win free items and all you have to do is leave a comment on the posts telling me what you would do with your winnings :)

Sticker Giveaway!

Today is a very fun Monday because Uprinting is sponsoring another giveaway on my blog and they are giving one friend 250 free stickers that you can have printed in full color with your logo or as a product label, a unique business card, promotional stickers and more. I will receive a set as well for hosting this giveaway so I am stoked and can't wait to make some colorful valgal stickers! You can learn more about Sticker Printing at Uprinting. Please leave me a comment telling me how you will use these Stickers/Labels and who you plan on giving them to and you are entered to win. You may post this giveaway on your blog and link to it as well and these will be considered as multiple entrees and more chances to win! To sweeten the pot, they are offering FREE UPS Ground Shipping in the USA (Canadian residents need to pay shipping and taxes) Offer is not available to residents outside the US and Canada.

Giveaway Prize Details:

250 Stickers/Labels for One (1) lucky winner

Sizes 2"x 3.5", 2"x 4", or 3" x 3"

Paper: 70 lb Label Matte

Specifications: Full color front, blank back; 4 business Day printing

Winners will be announced on October 30th.

Illustration Friday: frozen

Frozen on the outside and warm on the inside.

diecut holiday card for Illustration Friday's "frozen" theme.

2006 copyright Valerie Walsh

please don't forget to sign up to win free business cards from Uprinting you have 5 more days (October 22) and 2 winners will be announced.