Shop Poll

Shop Poll

Help me pick the next design for the shop! I have a few ideas roughly sketched out, thanks to last month's craft shows where I was running solo but remembered to bring my sketchbook. But I thought it'd be fun to see what you guys thought I should focus on/clean up...

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New Design: Frangipani

New Design: Frangipani

A new design! Here's the flower that I based it off of: And here's my design: This is a frangipani flower, though you may also know it as plumeria. I had never encountered it before doing my study abroad in Australia, and then I fell in love with it. It's still my...

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New Digital Prints

New Digital Prints

You may remember I opened a new digital shop not too long ago. I've been working on filling it up. Right now it's mostly pre-made Etsy shop banners, and design services (including blog tweaks, if you need help). And while I'm still working on my first pre-made blog...

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New Design: Seahorse

New Design: Seahorse

The drawing bug finally hit me again this week, and I've actually got a couple of new designs for the shop sketched out. A few still need tweaking, but this one is ready to go. A seahorse! It's actually based off of a sketch in an old sketchbook of mine, for a...

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Shop News

Shop News

A few fun announcements for the shop today. 1. ALL of my designs are now available as custom art prints where you can choose the paper and ink colors for a completely customized piece. I figured out what standard sizes would work best for each design, made a nifty...

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Design Poll

Readers, today I'd like to pick your brains. I have too many ideas for the next print to develop for the shop, so I thought I'd ask your input. Keeping in mind that I still have lots of elephant prints planned, and will continue to print with my other screens as well:...

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The Phoenix Design (for real this time)

The Phoenix Design (for real this time)

Long-time readers may remember me mentioning the new phoenix design I'd come up with back in November, which I then promptly became unsatisfied with and put on a back burner. I tinkered with it off and on the past few months, never quite getting it to where I wanted....

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Next Design: Phoenix

Next Design: Phoenix

I have FINALLY finished sketching, erasing, tweaking, etc. the next design for DA, and am ready to make the screen. Check out the upcoming phoenix design: EDIT: Ok, I may have announced this prematurely. I woke up the next day, and was not happy with the wings. I...

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New Design: Vines

New Design: Vines

So here is the next design I'll be making a screen of and printing up. Long leafy vines. I'm still debating whether to leave the leaves (ha) as outlines, or fill them in. I'm thinking just outlines.

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About

Hi, I’m Amanda!

I’m a self-employed graphic designer by day, and a crafty hungry bookworm by night. Dragonflight Dreams is where I write about books, recipes, internet goodies, life things, crafty projects, Austin happenings, and more.

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The Surviving Sky
Be: A No-Bullsh*t Guide to Increasing Your Self Worth and Net Worth by Simply Being Yourself
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2023 Reading Challenge

2023 Reading Challenge

2023 Reading Challenge
Amanda has completed her goal of reading 75 books in 2023!
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