Juvenile greeting cards illustrated by Judy Sanqunetti

Have a sweet Birthday! card by Judy Sanqunetti

Happy Birthday card by Judy Sanqunetti

Birthday Boy card by Judy Sanqunetti

Last night during my son's baseball game I began to get a cold (YES in May!) I could not believe it, could be allergies as well, who knows.  So this morning I was not feeling very motived to be creative, and I thought about taking a snooze.

But I pushed on and decided to get into the groove after all.  Yesterday I began to create some greeting cards for the kids market and I finished these up today.  It ended up being a pretty creative and fun afternoon after all, even though I felt a bit crummy.

I submitted these to a company I found in the Artist's & Graphic Designer's Market book.  I found last years at the library, so I could check it out to see if I thought there would be enough good leads for me.  So far, so good so I will probably purchase the 2014 edition along with Children's Writer's & Illustrator's Market.

Feel free to contact me to let me know what you think, just to say hello or if you need any custom work!

Until next time!
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Maria Bogade: Some party paper products for a cute school start ...

Some party paper products for a cute school start - giveaway

From time to time I get to work on some lovely commissions not related
to books at all. And sometimes they happen to become beautiful products.
So it happened almost two years ago, when I was approached by a German
company producing paper goods mainly aimed at all things school related,
or to be more precise school start related.

The other day I received a big parcel with my samples! It felt like
Christmas in spring :-)! Well, it actually alway does, when I receive
samples, as somehow this feeling never seems to fade away, when
receiving those wonderful parcels from clients!

I am also extremely happy with the quality of the products, which you can purchase right here ;-)!

It is a series of party paper goods to celebrate the start of school.



In Germany we have a tradition that is not necessarily common all around
the globe (let me know, if I am wrong about this :-)!). The first day
of school children in Germany go to school with their families and,
which is the important part to all the kids here :-), a huge
"Schultüte", which is a large cornet of cardboard filled with lots of
sweets and tiny presents. I still remember my first day of school and
how heavy my "Schultüte" was. I almost couldn't carry it, tiny as I was
:-)! And I was so eager to open it and see what was inside. But you have
to wait until the end of school until you can peek inside or simply rip
the cone open and spill all the goodies on the floor :-).

The "Leni & Paul"
party paper series has a girl and boy set and is for the party to go
with a school start. There is a card, napkins, a garland, paper bag and
some more fun things like an activity book, book sign etc. As I haven't
done a giveaway in ages and feel it is about time to hold one again, I
am giving away one girl set and one boy set!



All you have to do to have a chance of being one of the two randomly
chosen winners is leave a comment on my blog! The giveaway ends 1st
June 2014!



Good luck!

Ingvard the Terrible : Illustrator, Viking, Dude: iPad app design and illustration

Ingvard the Terrible : Illustrator, Viking, Dude: iPad app design and illustration:

iPad app design and illustration

I love illustration. You may have guessed that already. I also love design. Also, probably somewhat self-evident.

I have discovered over recent years, however, that I also like designing
for interactive format, or GUI (Graphical User Interface), such as web
sites and apps, etc. 

On top of that, I've also discovered that I like designing and/or
illustrating stuff featuring wildlife or any other zoo-ish or
safari-esque subject matter. Who knew.

This project, then, was a pleasurable combination of all of the above.
It's just a concept, mind you, so don't go looking for it in the App
Store just yet.  

Visit http://www.ingvard-blog.com to see more
Ingvard's illustration portfolio on That's My Folio: