Black Petal cover design

The big reveal, cover of the upcoming book: Order of the Rose

More revelations await us in the next series of Order of the Rose: Black Petal. 

Watch out for it. Coming soon in Amazon. 

Black Petal preview

It's always a great joy and wonderful relief, to finish an artwork, specially a big one. And I definitely consider working on the cover designs of the book series Order of the Rose by Joshua Hoyt, a big and most enjoyable project.

Today, I put the final touches in Black Petal, the second in this series of three. Or, in one case, remove a detail. As always, my ever loving hubby is a source of inspiration, ideas and creative feedback. Thanks love!

Here's a preview of the title. I'll post the full design on Friday, in accordance with Josh's schedule of release. Looking forward it!

Cowboy themed birthday party invitation design

Slowly but surely, I am building up my designs available for download at www.etsy.com. Here's one more - a Cowboy themed birthday party invitation, comes with four cake toppers and a thank you card, that I uploaded last night.

All text are customizable and photos are used for illustrative purposes only - these will be replaced by the celebrant's pictures.

Hope you like it! More coming soon.

Birthday party Invitation designs

Ugh. Started my day really late! Woke up dreaming that I'm in a world where two separate group of peoples live - and one couldn't breathe well once they are in the other's boundaries.

Still quite muddled from that. But the day is clearing up... thanks to Mount Province Arabica coffee from my friend Lucy!

I have set aside today to paint the Star Wars set. Need to be done today, as they are all to be delivered tomorrow. Luckily, acrylic and the glaze I use dry up really quickly. It's the painting that will take time with all those itty bitty details.

But before I get to that, I just wanted to post about three items on my Etsy shop - invitation designs for birthdays and other parties. They are available for only 10USD - you get the digital file and you can print it at home or bring it to your printer's. It comes with a complementing Thank You card and four cake topper designs.

All characters are done by OrangeJar and text are customizable. If you want to purchase any of these designs, please send a PayPal payment to orangejar (@) orangejar.com for USD10 and email me the text that needs to go in the card. I will email you proofs for checking and after we've finalized all that, I will send the hi-resolution copy that you can download and print.

More designs to come soon. Thanks for viewing!

Alien Theme Birthday Party Invitation Design

Alien Theme Thank You Card Design

Alien Theme Cake Topper Design

Arts & Crafts Theme Invitation Design

Arts & Crafts Theme Thank You Card

Arts & Crafts Theme Cake Topper Design

B&W Smiley Invitation Design

B&W Smiley Thank You Card Design

B&W Smiley Cake Topper Design

OrangeJarArt on Etsy now open!

I have been considering Etsy for the longest time. But it was only a few months ago that I actually signed up to become a seller... then I left the account empty. For weeks now, I've been wanting to post my art prints and clay work but I've been too worried about shipping and packaging so I did nothing.

In the meantime, I've been trying to find the best way to ship out and well, experimenting on packaging.

But I realize now that I have to make the jump. So today, I officially opened my Etsy store. I couldn't take the name OrangeJar anymore - imagine that, somebody beat me to it. So I put in OrangeJarArt. If you want to check it out, just click here. It's a leap of faith, I wasn't ready for it, so there's only one product listed up there and that is my caricature/portrait service.

OrangeJarArt shop and the one and only product listed ;)

Etsy's email confirmation

I know I should have done this a long time ago. It takes eons of time to promote and for a shop to get recognized. But at least, I opened it. I took the plunge. Now, I just have to sort out packing and shipping and I'll be posting more stuff in there.

Here's to hoping for more clients to stumble in my humble shop!

Happy Mother's Day cards

Happy mother's day to all moms out there!

We're pretty sure there are going to be tears in mums' eyes when they read the cards their kids made them.

We couldn't help but say awwwww when we saw the emails kids sent us.

It was hard but we had to pick one winner - and that's Christine, 12 years old, who sent in her card for her Mommy Pearl. We love her use of colorful flower cutouts that frames the front of the card.

Inside, she continued the flower motiff and combined it with illustration - a sweet one of a mom kissing her child and a just as sweet letter. We're sure your mom is going to be so proud of you Christine! Congratulations!

For special prizes, we picked three: IC (12), Tel (9) and Kit (10).


IC used what looks like colorful tin foils which made his card bright and colorful. He also used cutouts from magazines to make his letterings. Very clever! He kept the inside simple which brought your focus to the message immediately, but the borders around the message made it interesting.

Tel emailed saying she also colored the back of the card. That's good design Tel! And she included a very cute picture of her and her mommy on the inside page making it very personal.

Kitkit used a bright yellow paper that added interest to the card and in his letter, he recalled his mom giving him confidence on his first day of school. Awww... we're just wiping tears from our own eyes. 

Congratulations kids, good work! Happy Mother's day to your mums and

all the mums out there!

And a special Happy Mother's Day to Amor Mendoza 

and Monica de Castro!