Green Isle Studio, our logo

We're officially open for business! Nancy and I've been working together on various different projects for a couple of years now. It's only recently we decided to have a brand name, Green Isle Studio.  Green Islet is our given last name on English. It's very common in Sweden with names coming from nature, like for example "meadow-twig" or "Sea-flower". Very pretty, right? 

We wanted to have an organic touch to our logo as we feel it's something we stand for and also hints to in our name. We made some decisions of what colors, fonts and feelings we wanted to have with sketches. After that it all pretty much came flowing down onto paper. Nancy has such a lovely watercolor touch to her paintings and I really wanted to incoperate that into our logo. I feel this logo represent us and I'm really excited to show you our new green place! 

We will keep on adding new limited art, originals, hand printed goods and much more. We use Instagram for work in progress, previews and updates. And of course we do have our own 

Green Isle Studio Blog over at tumblr. 

We are have a special opening discount the week through on posters and prints. You don't need no code, you will automatically receive the 20% off when purchasing any paper goods. 

Thanks for all the love and support we received so far! 

/Carolina 

Pet portraits SALE! LOVE!

I do love drawing someone's loved pet, either it be a dog, cat, hedgehog or the cutest little pig. All animals are wonderful to draw and the most fun is to bring out that special trait from their personality. Or have the pet be in a another place and space in the drawing. One thing I always wished for but never gotten the chance to do is to draw animals in people's clothing. 

I've been somewhat close, drawing cats in superhero capes and in roller-skates. 

During the rest of July I will draw your beloved pets with clothes, or without, in space, 

in the wild, as a lion. Just the way you want it. 

I'm reducing the price from $200 USD to $130 USD throughout the entire month in my Etsy shop. 

Here are examples of commissioned drawings:

Thank you everyone for your love and support! 

/Carolina

Christmas Fair - Etsy STHLM

Yup, the Stockholm ETSY team is having their first christmas fair! 

It's all very exciting and we also have a great venue downtown at Mariatorget. 

I got the chance to do the official poster for the event:

 Facebook-eventet med mer information mm. finns HÄR.

Vår hemsida med utställare och blogg hittar du på Designmarknadstockholm.com

Starting from today till monday 23-26 november I'm having a weekend sale over at my ETSY shop:

Wishing you a great weekend

/Carolina

Nerdy Playful vs. Clean Modern

This is me. In my private life and work life. It reflects on everything I do and I may seem scattered to some, I mean I sometimes feel that way myself...If you believe in astrology I guess I should have been born in the sign of gemini and not of virgo. Here are some work examples:

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You can find some of my nerdy playful totes and clean modern scarves in my Etsy shop: Latenightdrawing

( I now have a 10% discount on all things with the code SUMMER2012. )

eller i min svenska Nordic Design Collective butik: a Creative Cat by Carolina Grönholm

Wishing you a wonderful Sunday!

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Carolina

Giveaway ending

And the winner for this giveaway is......

A BIG thank you to everyone who participated in the giveaway! I'm celebrating with 10% off on any item in the SHOP so if you fancied something, now is the time! Enter this code: AUTUMNGIVEAWAY2011 when checking out.

Wishing you a great weekend!

/Carolina

In a creative hurry

I was a little bit hasty when I changed my blog url a couple of days ago as I stated in my last blog post. I changed it back the next day....after some contemplating. I should learn not to act first and think after, well my other url carolinagronholm.blogspot.com still exist but is now only for testing. I'm thinking of moving my entire blog to WordPress. I'm not sure though, do you guys have any suggestions, can you recommend it?

On the creative side, I've finished a new little birdie brooch.

 Ink pen & pink/white cotton yarn. Also I'm celebrating my 50th sale over at latenightdrawing.etsy.com with a 10% SALE on all items! You need to enter this coupon code: YAY50THSALE in the check out. 

Jag var lite för snabb för mitt eget bästa när jag bytte adressen till bloggen i veckan som jag skrev om i förra posten. Jag bytte tillbaks ganska snabbt dagen efter. Jag borde börja tänka igenom saker innan jag agerar. Min andra adress carolinagronholm.blogspot.com existerar fortfarande fast bara som test just nu. Jag funderar på att flytta hela min blogg till WordPress men jag är fortfarande osäker, men ni kanske vet något bättre som ni kan rekommendera?