Freebie of the week: Birdsong Giftbox

& here's the last freebie of Jinjerup's Bird themed pattern month!
I have never done up a navy gift blue box before and thought this would be a good chance to do so :) I quite like how the dark blue plays up the bright red, pink and orange tones of the chirpy birds. Hm... actually its more of plays up the 'raucousness' of the birds' songs! :P



UPDATES
(29-09-2011) Hi there, thanks for your interest in this Jinjerup freebie. We’ve updated it, please visit this link to view & download the new updated freebie:
http://jinjerup.com/1850/freebies/birdsong-giftbox

Visit our new Jinjerup Blog for more cute freebies & printables:
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Alright, off I go to work now. Have a happy tuesday everyone!

Oh and one more thing, if anyone's interested in getting more insight to 'Thinking out of the box', Amy of Pikaland's hosting an etsy virtual lab at 9pm EST, which is in about an hour! Time to get cranking! Here's the link for more ;)

Plucky ducky

I was going through some boxes of old knick knacks when I came across a very, old rubber ducky. Its still a shade of somewhat bright yellow, fancy that! (after all these years) Hence, I shall now call it 'plucky ducky'! Why do they still call them rubber duckies when most of them are now made of plastic? :P

& Come to think of it! I hardly ever remember playing with this toy! What on earth is it doing in my box of old keepsakes? It must be my sister's then, chuckle* guess they're trying to get rid of old stuff again by stashing it there.

As I sat there looking at the little toy, I thought, why not do up some duckies for a new Jinjerup Bird themed pattern :D So, thanks to plucky ducky, here's my take on this classic toy, in 3 shades of daffodil, lilac and cornflower.


Plucky ducky (daffodil)
Duckies in fashion!



Plucky ducky (lilac)
Duckies in fashion!



Plucky ducky (cornflower)
Duckies in fashion!

Bird Song

Inspired by the raucously chirpy chorus I used to hear precisely at the stroke of dawn, here's my new pattern called Bird Song.

These 3 new patterns are very different from the other patterns in Jinjerup's Bird themed range as they look very contrasty and bold against these lovely dark colors of navy, mahogany and storm-grey. Thought it would be nice to feature them so, as it has been quite some time since I'd designed dark colored patterns. A change once in awhile is a good thing, yes? :P


Bird Song (navy)
Dedicated and inspired by the first chorus of birds against a navy-colored dawn sky.



Bird Song (mahogany)
Dedicated and inspired by the first chorus of birds against a mahogany-colored dawn sky.



Bird Song (storm grey)
Dedicated and inspired by the first chorus of birds against a storm grey-colored dawn sky.

Freebie of the week: Owl wait labels

Hurrah for more cute owl giveaways! Here's this week's freebie: Owl Wait Labels,
all decked out in Jinjerup's latest pattern here. Featured in the image below is the blue label version, I've also designed the labels in orange and lime green.

As usual, the template download is found at the bottom of the image, please click on it to reach the download link. :)

UPDATES
(29-09-2011) Hi there, thanks for your interest in this Jinjerup freebie. We’ve updated it, please visit this link to view & download the new updated freebie:
http://jinjerup.com/1834/freebies/owl-wait-labels

Visit our new Jinjerup Blog for more cute freebies & printables:
http://jinjerup.com/category/freebies

H'okay, I'm off to bed. Am pretty beat, have spent the day travelling to visit my grand aunts in another state plus I've been quite exhausted due to late work nights. Oh well, good night folks!

XOXO,
Lynn

Owl wait

Last night, as we were driving back home from our local super mart (dad & I), we saw this really huge flying creature swoop right infront of the car. Much too big to be a bat, too ruffly to be a night jar. We slowed down and watched where it landed.

It was a really huge owl, the size of a toy poodle! Would you believe it, this is only the third time in my entire life, I have seen an owl (apart from the ones in zoos!) :P It really inspired me to come up with this new pattern of cute, puffy owls in brilliant color swatches, wide-eyed and waiting.


Owl wait (orange red)
We wait and watch in tones of tangerine and marmalade.



Owl wait (blue)
We wait and watch in tones of kraken blue and sky.



Owl wait (lime green)
We wait and watch in tones of electric lime and foliage.

Sweetweets

Time for a new bird themed pattern!
I had originally designed these little twitterers for an icon in mind but they looked really cute in repeat so I had to do them up in proper 'pattern' pattern.

The only thing they ever love doing is chirp to each other all over the place and in any direction possible. I adore the Sweetweets (warm) pattern the most, as the color combination makes them little birdies look more michievious than the other un's.


Sweetweets (warm)
A-tweeting & a-chirping these little birdies go!



Sweetweets (mellow)
A-tweeting & a-chirping these little birdies go!



Sweetweets (cute)
A-tweeting & a-chirping these little birdies go!

Any faves, anyone? ;)

Freebie of the week: Owlways Yours Note cards

What a busy, busy weekend mine's turning out to be!
After happily spending more than 2 hours shooting pix of Jinjerup's Giftboxes,
I then realised I had shot them in the wrong resolution!! Argh!!

Now I've got to go reshoot them again, what a waste of my precious hours plus a small side project that I've been working on hasn't turned out the way I would've liked it to look. :( Guess I'm not having a very productive weekend too at that.

Oh well, the good thing is I've still got some more hours left. Before I go back to shooting pix, here's this week's freebie! Note cards in Jinjerup's latest pattern: Owlways Yours.

UPDATES
(29-09-2011) Hi there, thanks for your interest in this Jinjerup freebie. We’ve updated it, please visit this link to view & download the new updated freebie:
http://jinjerup.com/1694/freebies/owlways-yours-notecards

Visit our new Jinjerup Blog for more cute freebies & printables:
http://jinjerup.com/category/freebies

Enjoy your weekends!

XOXO,
Lynn
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Update:
Hurrah!! As featured on Papercrave's Free Printables Friday (Sept '09) & Craftig
Thank you Kristen! :)

Also featured on One Pretty Thing, thank you Rachel!

Owlways yours

Sorry folks for the lack of a post this week, have not been doing so great-healthwise.
Fever, exhaustion, the works but I'm back! ;)

I've been playing around with block owl repeats for the next pattern in line for Jinjerup's Bird range. This is actually my 2nd pattern featuring owls,
here's my first one. Instead of sticking to my fave color palettes, I decided to try out other color combinations as shown in the patterns below.


Owlways yours (nature)
Perching owls make an interesting block repeat in lovely, natural tones



Owlways yours (sweet)
Perching owls make an interesting block repeat in yummy, sweet tones



Owlways yours (pastel)
Perching owls make an interesting block repeat in gentle, soothing tones

Freebie of the week: Mr & Mrs Byrd Invitation Cards

This week's freebie is a special one, as it features my favourite new pattern:
Mr & Mrs Byrd. I wanted to make a slightly different sort of card with the two little birds designed as intros to the contents inside so I whipped up these oh so cute Mr & Mrs Byrd Invitation cards!

These mini cards are so easy to make, with minimal folding and in such adorable colors too. Although I had designed them to be invite cards, they are great for any sort of message too, please do feel free to use them as note cards, mini greeting cards or just to say hi! :)


The Byrds say Hello!


A list of items you'll need to make the bookmark:
1. Paper (of a preferably thicker stock)
2. Printer
3. Scissors
4. Box cutter (blade)
5. Single Hole Punch (Optional)
6. Thin ribbon (Optional)


Here's a pictorial tutorial I've whipped up:


Have your materials at the ready!


Take note of the 2 different type of crop marks. The dotted line crop mark (boxed in yellow) are folding lines. The normal crop mark (boxed in pink) are cutting lines.


Locate the 8 dotted line crop marks then score them across from one end to the other with the back of your box cutter. You would have scored 4 lines, this helps ensuring smoother folding lines later.


Cut out the invite card along its normal crop marks.


Fold the scored lines as pictured above.


Fold the scored lines as pictured above.


Press the folds together.


Repeat the same folding and pressing actions for the other side of the invitation card.


When ready, this is what your invitation card shall look like.


Write your message inside! ;)


& you're good to go! Time to present them to your card recipients!


There are 2 other alternative ways you could present the cards.
Is your single hole punch ready? (If you do not have one, fret not! You could use a double hole punch, using only one of its hole punches OR you could even pierce the card with a needle and resize the hole as required.)


Alternative #1: Punch two holes as pictured above.


Thread a ribbon narrow enough to fit through the holes and make a mini bow! This looks really cute when its standing up by itself.


Alternative #2: Punch two holes as pictured above.


Thread a ribbon narrow enough to fit through the holes and make a knot, leaving excess ribbon there, long enough for you to tie it around a gift. Now the card serves as a gift tag too!


A flock of byrds


Mr & Mrs Byrd, tying the knot


View of natural & mini bow style byrd card


View of gift tag styled byrd card


Byrds of a feather, flock together

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Here's where you can download the templates for the invitation cards:

Measurements:
Sizes of invitation card (Open Size):
(w)19cm x (h)6.5cm OR (w)7.5inches x (h)2.5inches

Sizes of invitation card (Closed Size/Folded close):
(w)6.5cm x (h)6.5cm OR (w)2.5inches x (h)2.5inches

UPDATES
(29-09-2011) Hi there, thanks for your interest in this Jinjerup freebie. We’ve updated it, please visit this link to view & download the new updated freebie:
http://jinjerup.com/1528/freebies/mr-mrs-byrd-invite-cards

Visit our new Jinjerup Blog for more cute freebies & printables:
http://jinjerup.com/category/freebies

Note:The measurements provided above are based on the templates provided but actual sizes depend on your printer settings, you may even reduce their sizes by shrinking them in photoshop!

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Am off to the land of nod, take care &
have a great week ahead everyone!!

XOXO,
Lynn

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Update:
Many, many thanks to everyone for featuring Jinjerup on all your lovely blogs and sites:
supahcute
Make, Do & Send
TokyoBunnie
Swap-bot
Craftzine:
Craftig
The Long Thread
Tipnut
One Pretty Thing

Much love!! :)

Mr & Mrs Byrd

When I was much younger, I used to feed lots of pigeons, pigeons which came from just about anywhere. I bought loaves and loaves of bread just to feed them! Guess I was fascinated with animals and birds in particular when I was 12 so I fed them to observe them. I aspired to be an ornithologist! :P My parents were none too pleased with the whole idea as pigeons = loads of bird crap but they put up with it for quite some time (surprisingly).

First it started with just one, a curious little brown colored pigeon, Ned and then his mate, then within the blink of an eye, the flock doubled and tripled, some were so tame that we could feed them by hand or even pick them up! Very soon, more varieties of birds started arriving, from kingfishers, drongos, bul buls to even some wild parakeets once! Oh, how I observed and learnt, it was great fun!

Eventually though, as I decided I would like to pursue Psychology instead, my fascination waned but! I'll always remember a pair I'd fondly referred to as Mr & Mrs Byrd (with the Upper Case) Lols* They were the most curious but most snooty pair of pigeons I've ever seen. Not only did they refuse to grab the bread pieces the others were squabbling for, they stayed calmly at the edge of the flock, waiting for me to throw some their way!

The best part is that after some time, they decided it was time to make friends so they took to pecking out of my hand :) so in memory of such an audacious pair, I've done up a new batch of patterns.


Mr & Mrs Byrd (pink)
A snooty little pair dressed to the nines.



Mr & Mrs Byrd (green)
A snooty little pair dressed to the nines.



Mr & Mrs Byrd (purple)
A snooty little pair dressed to the nines.

Raindew birds

Finally!! It has taken me a total of 3 hours to save this new batch of patterns in jpeg format. Jpegs alone, can you imagine that! My illustrator quit on me 18 times... grrrr..... I had to figure out how to outsmart it.

So yes! This month's new theme is birds & its also a theme I've been longing to work on ;) I've been doing little bird patterns here and there, so its nice to finally be able to work on a whole bird theme by itself. loves*

Here's my first pattern of the birds theme: Raindew birds, hope you guys like it! Of the three, i adore the first version, Raindew birds (happy) as the colors resonate with how I'm feeling now! :D Which ones do you guys prefer?


Raindew birds (happy)
Cute birds perching in dew strewn fields



Raindew birds (peace)
Cute birds perching in dew strewn fields



Raindew birds (chirpy)
Cute birds perching in dew strewn fields