Category Archives: greeting cards

Greeting Cards Inspired by Spring and Summer Flowers

Get Well Soon Inspired by Flowers Greeting Card

Yes, it’s time for a little dreaming about warm, sunny mornings in the garden among the flowers. These cards are for birthdays, friendship, sympathy, thank you, get well and more, blank inside, with matching envelope. And if you don’t send cards you can frame them or include them in a craft project which I sometimes […]

My Cats in the Sun Feline Votive

These four images are four early paintings inspired by my cats enjoying a spot of sun with a nap or a bath. They date from the early to mid-90s when I was working hard to refine my skills with pastel, with color, with shape and even the strokes in my paintings. I felt I really […]

Feline Valentines for Cat Lovers and Lovers With Cats

All sorts of feline-inspired valentines!

Have we come around to Valentine’s Day already? I have a ready supply of feline Valentine images with all the cuddling that happens around here. In this post I feature all my commercially printed Valentines with photos and illustrations, seven designs in total. These cards are 5″ x 7″ and are printed on 12 pt. […]

Featured Artwork: “Window Kitty, Snowy Night” Seasonal Card ~ The Creative Cat

I designed this linoleum block print for my holiday card in 2001. The design is based on the actual scene that met me many snowy nights when I came home from my day job and seeing one of my kitties in silhouette, Sally for many years, then Sophie, then Kelly, sitting on the windowsill at […]

Details of My Display

Decorative trays, votives, tiles and decorative dishes.

Since this is pretty much what I’ve been doing for the past week I thought I’d share some more photos of my shop display. I’ve really been enjoying how some of the setups worked themselves out. I would love to have a shop but there is no way I could swing that but I love […]

Holiday Open House and Studio Sale

Finally, the open house I’d been planning to host as early as October came to be, after getting all the work done that paid for the materials for the new items I made. And those items turned out so well and were very popular that it was worth both the wait and the effort. Holiday […]

From a Spontaneous Photo Shoot at Dusk to Holiday Cards

I was hoping for a fantastic sunset as I drove home from errands, but no luck tonight. With a light dusting of snow, a gentle snowfall began again as dusk began to fall, and the clouds remained resolutely solid gray. Still, I got some nice photos as I drove through Settler’s Cabin Park where I’d […]

Holiday Greetings from the Backyard Birds

I truly love winter paintings because the light is wonderful without the shadows from trees, the reflections from the snow illuminating shadowed areas with soft purples and blues, and the patterns made by bare branches are mesmerizing. This set of four paintings of birds are ones I’d done “from life”, actually standing at a window […]

Colorful Little Crabapples on a November Day, “Unexpected Berries” Holiday Cards

Has someone decorated the bare trees for the holidays? Yes, Mother Nature! I took this photo on a similarly gray day and those colorful little apples looked as if they glowed and the bare branches had a wonderful silvery cast. Walking in the quiet of a winter day I see some of the most beautiful […]

Tis Almost the Seasons for Feline-themed Holiday Cards

Feline-themed holiday cards from Portraits of Animals.

From handmade to printed I have a selection of feline-themed cards inspired by my evolving family of felines. All cards are designed from my photographs and paintings which you can purchase individually, as a mixed set or a set of all the same design. In addition to my commercially-printed cards I also have two designs […]