New greeting cards & art print

A friend of mine recently commissioned a Golden Girls-themed, vintage-inspired greeting card and I'm so happy with how it turned out! She gave me permission to sell the design in my shop, so it's available right here. I also have prints available without the text, available here. I had so much fun working on this project and I think I need to do more drawings in this illustration style now!

Illustrations for Lark by Storybird

Storybird just released their new app, Lark. It's a really neat poetry app that allows you to layer poems on top of artwork from the Storybird website. If you're not familiar with Storybird, it's a site where you can use existing artwork from artists around the world to illustrate your own children's books. I have pretty much all of my Flapper Doodle artwork available to use on the website and it's really fun to see how other people have used my drawings in their beautiful stories. 

With Lark, you are given the option to choose from various artwork and then you're given an automatically generated selection of words from which to write your poem. You can't add your own words, but I think that's part of the fun! I probably wouldn't have come up with "waltz you magical creatures" on my own, but those were some of the words that were available to me and they fit my drawing perfectly!







One of the reasons that I'm really excited about Lark is that my illustrations were chosen to appear on four of the screens before you start creating your poems and following other awesome users. I love how perfectly the illustrations they chose fit with the page they appear on. When you aren't following any other users yet, my little flapper looks so lonely!

Lark is available to download in the app store, and if you're interested in creating a book you can check out Storybird here.

Custom blog design for Vixen Vintage

I recently had the honor of doing a custom blog design for Solanah, from Vixen Vintage.  I wanted to come up with something that would reflect her vintage aesthetic while still looking modern and timeless. I drew most of my inspiration for the colors and design from 1940's packaging for hair accessories! They're so simple and elegant and often have a really pretty color combination.



If you'd like to see more of my process, I did a post a few days ago that dissected the evolution of the Vixen Vintage blog header from my initial design through 13 revisions.

Evolution of a blog header

I recently completed a new blog design for Solanah at Vixen Vintage (more on that later!) When I was cleaning up my folder afterwards, I realized I had created 13 different images before finally landing on the header used in the final design. I thought it would be fun to share that process here, and a few more of my blog headers from the last year or so!



The design for The Soubrette Brunette started out as a pencil sketch and, remarkably, ended up almost exactly the same once it was finished. Just a few tweaks here and there, like adding the tulle skirt and switching up the way I drew the nose. And adding color, of course. I love fiddling with a design and adding a touch here or there to make it perfect, but there's something to be said for a design coming out the way I wanted it to right from the get-go!


Last year my brother and I took a road trip and documented it on a private blog to share with our parents. Naturally I decided it needed a custom header (and background.. and layout..) and I was so happy with how it turned out. Tilting the text and adding a drop shadow was such a simple touch but I love the effect so much.



My header design for Hello Cat Lady was, like The Soubrette Brunette, another one where my first draft & final copy were pretty similar. I still love looking at the evolution from the pencil sketch to the finished digital image.

Cover design for Darkness Descends on Princeton

A few months ago I had the distinct pleasure of designing the book cover for Darkness Descends on Princeton, a 1930's murder mystery by Jeff Jacobs. I finally received a print copy and it looks even better than I could have imagined.

The layout was inspired by 1960s mass market paperbacks with small titles on the front and one stark image to represent the story. Being a native Princetonian, I decided to incorporate the iconic Nassau Hall building and Princeton Tigers stripes and colors for a bold cover, and I had some fun with the dot over the building which could simultaneously serve as a bullet or the moon.

My ties to the book aside, it's a really fine work of literature that I highly recommend. The concept is brilliant, placing all of the familiar faces from 1930's classic movies (Peter Lorre, Edna May Oliver, Charles Coburn, etc.) smack dab into a murder mystery set in 1939 Princeton. There's Nazi intrigue, witty dialogue,  clever repartee, and it's exceptionally well written. I personally hope that it turns into a series so I can continue to follow the adventures of the hero & heroine... and maybe design more book covers too

It's available on Amazon as a paperback and kindle download here.

Custom Flapper Doodle illustration

I recently completed this custom Flapper Doodle illustration for use in the Suburban Storytime blog header.

Custom portrait and blog design for The Soubrette Brunette

I just wrapped up a custom portrait and blog design for Sammi from The Soubrette Brunette. She loves novelty handbags so I decided to incorporate that into the blog header, with the bags serving as links for different pages on her site!

I'm really thrilled with how it all came out, and luckily Sammi is too! You can take a peek at the blog design in action right here.

Santa, Take the Night Off album cover

This month I had the distinct pleasure of doing the cover art for Emma Wallace's new Christmas album. I am a big fan of Emma's music and have been eagerly anticipating a Christmas release for years, and this did not disappoint. The songs are sweet, jazzy, catchy, and perfectly festive. You can download her album on iTunes, here.

For the cover Emma gave me carte blanche (which can be both scary and exciting!) and I was so happy that she liked what I came up with. Her title song, "Santa, Take the Night Off", is equal parts saucy and classic, a romantic tune with a decidedly retro vibe, so I thought a simple vintage-style cover would be perfect to convey the mood of the album.

I also did the cover for her Temptation album a few years back, which is available on amazon here. If you aren't already familiar with Emma, definitely give her music a listen! Her songs are always such a delight, and her new Christmas tracks are sure to become standards on your annual seasonal playlists.