Blog posts direct from the desert surrounding Tucson, AZ, here you’ll find about the inspirations that become whimsical Zinnia Sky Studio greeting cards and art.
April has arrived and the desert is beautiful in Spring! April has arrived and the desert is beautiful! Spring brings so much to the desert and April is when we transition from spring into summer. After some cold nights and chilly days, everything is warming up and reaching out for the sun. Landscapes and gardens…
St. Patrick’s Day fun but why? St. Patrick’s Day is filled with all kinds of fun things and traditions. St. Patrick’s Day is an Irish holiday – I bet you already knew that – celebrated all over the world. It’s a day of parades, traditionally fun foods and Irish folklore. There are leprechauns and shamrocks…
March and spring is just around the corner now! March = Spring! Doesn’t that simple word make you smile? I love spring – how about you? It’s full of so many hopeful things. Baby birds are hatched, crops are planted, flowers pop out of the ground and the days get longer. We’re a little reversed…
How Zinnia Sky Studio came to be — Part 2 So a few weeks back I started the story of how Zinnia Sky Studio came to be. If you didn’t read it, you might want to go back and start there. You can find it here: Part 1 – How Zinnia Sky Studio came to…
February February is the second and shortest month of the year – I bet you knew that. By now we’re settling into our new year, ready to get things going. If you live north, it’s getting to be the end of winter, or at least the end is in sight. But here in the desert,…
If you haven’t read the first part to this post, you might want to go back and read it first. In that post, I explained how an idea becomes a Zinnia Sky Studio card. How sometimes just a word or a conversation can turn into an idea. And that ideas goes on a list and someday…
So one day I woke up and decided to be a card artist. As you may be aware, I make cards. Lots of cards. I love to make cards and consider myself a card artist. I’ve been making cards for so long that I’m not sure when I started, but I think when I was…
Subtle Seasons While it might last for a ridiculously short time, spring in the desert is amazing! Especially after a wet – by desert standards – winter. The changing of seasons in the desert are much, much more subtle than other parts of the continent, but they do exist and when you know what to…
Do you wonder who puts all those cards in their sleeves? That’s a good question and here is the answer….
The great white envelope. The Zinnia Sky Studio envelope is getting a fresh new look! After many wonderful years with the familiar brown Kraft envelope, we are going white! Yes, white. But while it might sound plain and normal, it’s not. Let me tell you why the new white envelopes are not plain or normal….…
