Get Your Party On!

I'm happy to announce new party themed cards are now available in my Etsy shop!

The "Party Pack" features four different illustrations:

Woodland Celebration

Happy Birthday Sparklers

Balloon Tree

Pool Party

Professionally printed in the US and comes with matching white envelope.

Available for purchase: here

New Cards in Shop

I added these new fruit house cards, home to little rabbits, to my shop today. 

Each pack features four different illustrations:

Strawberry

Pear

Blackberry

Dragonfruit

I like to use these as anytime greetings to friends, and they are a fresh reminder that spring will be coming (along with so many tasty fruits to pick!)

Available here in my shop

Original Art added to my Etsy Shop!

I've been adding more small original artwork to my Etsy Shop as we gear up towards the holiday season. These paintings are all hand painted by myself using gouache paint with ink. They come archivally matted, and are ready for gift giving (or to claim for yourself!).

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 I have also been working on new Christmas card designs. These ones feature my woodland characters with a little holiday cheer. The original paintings are currently available in my shop here. The greeting cards featuring these new designs will be available in my Etsy shop this November.

Holiday Cards Are Here!

New illustrated cards for the holidays are now available in my shop!.

Featuring four different illustrated designs:

Merry Christmas

Seasons Greetings

Yuletide Wishes

Happy Holidays

Available in a 4 card set or individually in my online store.

Craftacular - November 9th!

For those in the Nebraska area, tomorrow is Craftacular in downtown Lincoln. I'll be sellin' my wares along with 30 other artists. It will be a grand time with cocktails, raffles, live violin duo, and some pretty sweet people so come on by!

Craftacular 2011

Wednesday, November 9th - One night only!

Chez Hay (Above Noodles and co) 14th & P Street

5:00 - 9:00pm

Lincoln, Nebraska

Here's a few of the items that I will have for sale at Craftacular:

Hand-painted Ornaments

Cards - NEW Designs!

T-shirts

Original Paintings

Brooches

and relief prints.

I just got my new holiday cards in and they will be debuting there tomorrow night. 

If your not in the area they will be available in my Etsy Store at the end of the week.

PS. The first 50 people to come to Craftacular will receive swag bags at the door!

Haunted Giveaway!

It's that time of year again and my favorite way to celebrate the changing leaves,
brisk weather and all those pumpkins is to have a little giveaway!

This year one lucky winner will get a "Spooky" Card Set and Pumpkin Cat Brooch. 

How to enter? It's easy, just comment on this blog article! 

I will choose one lucky winner randomly Friday, Oct 15th at 9am.

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*Update* Just picked a winner  from a the comments listed on this blog post (randomly via random.org) and the winner is....Kaspian Shore! (Kaspian is a fellow artist and check out his amazing work here!)

Thank you everyone so much for commenting and sharing your favorite Halloween costumes, there's some amazing creations mentioned! Have a wonderful Fall and Spooooky time :)

For kicks and giggles share your favorite Halloween costume.
Mine was an awesome raccoon outfit (appropriately warm for those random Nebraskan blizzardry Halloween nights growing up).

I don't have a photo of my costume but Mochi has agreed to share his new spider mat with you.

 

Wanna see more Halloween related stuffs by Nimasprout? Check out my Shop.

Spooky Card Sets are here!

It's that wonderfully "Spooky" time of year again!

Complete "Spooky" Card set - Contains 4 cards:
1 "Pumpkin Spice" Card
1 "Haunted Isle" Card
1 "Specter Tree" Card
1 "By Witches Light" Card

Available for purchase in 4 card set or individually at my Etsy Shop!

PS. Hmmm what's this...perhaps another "Haunted Giveaway" coming this Monday?

Fresh from the shop

Spent the last few days getting some new items added to my Etsy shop. First up is a new card designs featuring Vegetable houses - Eggplant, Carrot, Bok Choy and Radish. They are available as individual cards or in a 4 card set.

"Vegi House" cards are available for purchase here!

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Original gouache & Ink paintings by Nicole Gustafsson

Also newly added are small original paintings featuring some of our feathered friends - "Common Waxbill", "Japanese Paradise Flycatcher", and "White Zebra Finch". These paintings come professionally framed and are the perfect size for your wall or desk.

These little birdies are available in my shop here!

New "Happy Birthday" Cards

I love getting mail...especially when it's new cards that I ordered from the printers. 

Here is a new illustrated " Happy Birthday" card featuring a group of rabbit friends throwing
a birthday party and having a grand time eating some cake.

Visit my shop to purchase. Thank you!

Sweethearts Card Set up in shop!

Love is in the air!
New illustrated cards are now available in my shop in time for Valentine's Day or for an anytime surprise for your sweetheart.

Featuring four different illustrated designs:

Hug Kiss

Flutter

Smitten Kitten

Love Bunnies

Available in a 4 card set or individually in my online store.

10% Off Coupon Code

I'm having a sale in my online store. 

Just use coupon code "PEPPERMINT" in checkout to receive 10% off anything in my shop. 

There are original paintings, hand-painted ornaments, tee shirts, cards, and prints!

Sale going on now until Wednesday evening.

Winter Wonderland Cards

Just got my holiday cards in and added to my shop! 

And for one night only I will have a table at Craftacular at Zen's here in Lincoln. It's Thursday night from 5 - 8pm. Come on by and see what local artists are up to and get some early x-mas shopping in!

Haunted Giveaway! Win Art + Greeting Cards

"Spooky" Card set with four different designs     +     "Trick or Treat", 5 x 7, Gouache & Ink painting

Update: Giveaway is now closed. Congratulations to Carol McKown, winner of the Haunted Giveaway!
(picked at random via random.org)

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It's autumn and my favorite time of year...so I thought I would have a Haunted Giveaway and share my new greeting cards that just came out. Win a "Spooky" Card set and original 5" x 7" gouache painting "Trick or Treat".

There are THREE ways to enter the giveaway!

Post a comment on this blog post.

Tweet about the giveaway on twitter (@nimasprout)

Become a fan of "nimasprout" on Facebook and comment on the giveaway post.

Enter using all three ways and have triple the chance to win! I will pick the winner using a random selector Monday, October 11th, 9:00am. 

If you don't want to try your luck and just want to buy the cards or other items available head on over to my online store.

Happy Autumn!