Ambrosia Creative

Posted a quick tutorial over at Good Look Cookbook today.
Also, here’s a download of my handwritten type used in the design:

(PDF vector file. Can be opened in Illustrator.)

The first Primary (the children’s organization of my church) download of many more maybe? With my new calling as Primary secretary, I imagine I’ll be regularly designing little things here and there.

These are assignment cards for the children I made a few weeks ago. Card assignments include opening prayer, Article of Faith recitation, scripture reading, and talk. These are given to assignees a week ahead of time so they can prepare for the following Sunday.

If you’re serving in a Primary presidency and could use these cards, download the PDF by clicking on the image below.

I have a modest stack of these valentines now listed in the shop. $5 for a pack of 24. For Moulin Rouge fans on an inkjet printer strike, like me. : )

Winter is very, very far away from the California coast. Just last week we were at the beach. But I can dream about bundling up in layers of tights, boots, scarves, and mittens and walking through crunchy white snow. It seems like an entirely different life when I was a little girl growing up in Chicago, but I will always remember the snow. And the wonder I felt seeing the year’s first snowflakes fall out of the sky.

Care to download my free snowflake notecards? These are little, one-sided flat cards that would fit into an A2-size envelope. For personal use only, of course.

{top photo via Feaverish}

More products to be added to the shop over the next week!

I’ve decided I’m going to start designing and selling stationery again. I tried to stay away, but I just can’t help it. I’m aiming to reopen Ambrosia Paperie in mid-September with brand new products, so I’ll probably be losing my mind and possibly hair over the next few weeks.

We visited the LA Renegade Craft Fair, and went through as *slowly* as the boys allowed. In other words, Dax’s mini tantrums and signature back-arching move kept us from staying at one booth longer than two minutes. Kai did just fine. Which is great, since he better get used to being dragged around places that involve the words ‘handmade,’ ‘arts,’ and ‘crafts.’ Many more years of that to come, kids. (But I will buy you ice cream, promise.)

Artists that I liked:

Illustrator Caitlin Kuhwald

Wood block prints by Tugboat Printshop
(Saw the three individual, hand-carved wood blocks used
for the three-color crab print above. It was really amazing.)

Berkeley Illustration

Maybe I stayed up past — way past — my usual bedtime of midnight to hand-letter and design this. But my Staedtler illustration pens and a 9×13 pan of brownies kept me fine company while Ryan snored away on the couch.

So do you have a honey that can use a little direction in honoring you this mother’s day? Download this free greeting card, then check off your wants needs. Because our significant others can’t read our minds. What? You didn’t know? That’s okay. I forget all the time.

Download PDF

Mother’s Day Card by Jennifer Kirk is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.

Some Valentine’s day cards I whipped up, using quotes from one of my all-time fave romantic movies, Moulin Rouge! And since free is all the rage these days, below is a downloadable PDF of these little cards, sized just like the ones you’d buy from the supermarket (back in the day) and hand out to all your school friends. Remember those?

Ryan challenged me do to some Twilight-themed valentines so, I may be sharing more designs this week. But in the meantime, hope you enjoy these!

Moulin Rouge inspired Valentines (PDF Download)