It's Moo!

It's like a cow's opinion!

JK they're actually the awesome company that does my printing for Pincel de Fuego, and I swear this is not an advertisement for them... I'm just excited about new stickers and plans.  

So... I bought packaging for Cali and put the little round stickers on all the little containers and ran out of stickers.  

I went online to print new stickers and oh man, it was Black Friday!  So I kind of went all out designing new stickers and I decided I was fiiiinally going to try their sticker books with adorably tiiiny stickers too.  

Have you seen my proper website gabiloraine.com?  Well anyway now everything is gathered there, so that's all the information needed for my new stickers!  I kind of wish I'd put the link in the small stickers too, but I kind of made those in a hurry, so next time.  

I ordered from their US store straight to Cali Colombia, and the order arrived SO fast!  Like less than a week.  I didn't have to order to Florida and forward to Panama and pay extra shipping or anything insane like that.  It literally got to my door.  I love Colombia.  Fuck you Panama, I'm never coming back.  JK of course I'll be back in July.

So cute!  I got super excited and started sticking them around right away and made super cute Christmas wrap.

ooooh, shiiiny - I LOVE this paper which I got at Bodegas Ilusión. 

Another thing I got excited about is that now Moo offers a sample pack, which is free and since I was already placing an order, I just added it on.  (It bumped my shipping fee by $0.75... which is not the end of the world)  Basically the sample pack is a pack of the business cards they make in most of the variations possible.  So you can physically appreciate the format, the quality of the paper, glossiness, etc.  And they're beautiful.  

This gave me the bright idea to change the format of the cards I've been using.  If you've seen my work, you've seen my tiny business cards with different pictures of my work on them.  ... well you might have also seen the little fliers I made a couple of years ago.  Anyway..  seeing the sample pack and comparing it side to side with my fliers gave me the idea to make new cards.  

And the next day I basically woke up and knew what I would do, and began sketching.  

See... in the sample pack they included these three cards... which demonstrate the textures they offer, which I haven't used before with the mini cards.  

 

So I took a 6H pencil and hatched in the parts which I'm going to want to be raised gloss...  I'm excited, but I'm not making these until I need them.  Because, economy.  And other reasons.

Fun times!  I really liked their square cards and the sample pack experience in general. 

up on Etsy now

I happily set up my little photography studio in Cali and photographed my current inventory.  Etsy is full of stuff right now.  Rings, dangle earrings, stud earrings, necklaces, beads, bracelets.

Here are some photographs of the work that is up there right now.  Follow the links to see prices in the store.  :)



Orange and green earrings:

I always try to get every angle so you can see every side, detail, transparency, etc...

(I like this picture because you can see the murrini from the inside of the bead and it looks completely different from what it looks like from the outside... remember you can click on the images to make them larger)

I clearly took these on a mug so I could show what they look like dangling... don't judge me... lol

I don't usually work with brown but when I do... it's... I'm not sure, is this brown or maroon?  Anyway it's a fun combination, love the swirled paint look on the beads and then the gems I added... and the sterling silver mandala beads in these are honestly my favorite.  I use them often.
Etsy.

The mug is not white, ok?  In case you were wondering.

My love for knitting...!  I love these necklaces... mostly I keep them and I have a bunch because I honestly love them... and I get plenty of compliments when I wear them.  I only started adding lampwork beads to them recently.  This one is on Etsy and I will be making and adding more soon.

Well you might remember these guys... :D    three different lengths

And this necklace has been around for a while; since Etsy now allows 10 pictures, I took some more detail shots to add to the listing.  It's pretty hard to take photos of larger things like necklaces in the tiny photography studio... I need to improve this obviously.  I want a model, also.

There is so much more... but it's enough for today.  :)

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