I am excited to offer a new giveaway featuring 50 Custom Thank You Cards with Plain Envelopes sponsored by Uprinting. The quality is excellent and you will be most impressed with how beautiful your images look. 50 Custom Thank You cards with plain envelopes will come in real handy for the holidays and you can use one of your paintings, illustration, sculpture, photo or a cool typeface to grace the cover of your cards. This is another generous gift from Uprinting for one of my friends and I w... Read Full Story

I have created many music-related images for record labels, bands, The San Diego Chamber Orchestra and I even painted a music house. This image is for the music blog I am a member of called "Kings of Maybe."When our fearless leader Asperezas asked me to make a new header for the 1 year Anniversary, I knew I had to make a crown of buildings. Our group is small but good and they have turned me on to some great music that I LOVE! My new fave is Just Say Yes by Snow Patrol posted by flor. I am lu... Read Full Story

Life is about finding a balance. My submission for Illustration Friday's "unbalanced " theme is a stationary card and postcard set called Home Life. 2009 copyright Valerie Walsh Read Full Story

When I am not wearing my glasses life takes on a nice blur. Believe it or not, when I was young I was in a little band called "Blind Burning". We wrote songs and recorded them in a recording studio that is for students at UCLA. We also had a little home recording studio and it was a lot of fun. We entered one of our songs for a contest in Musician Magazine, a popular mag that some of you might remember and we made it pretty far in the competition. But the band broke up and that was the end of... Read Full Story

I have very good news for Jannie Ho and Heather because they both have won 100 full color postcards from Uprinting! Congratulations to the both of you and I am excited to see your finished images and I hope you will show me what you come up with so get your images together and have fun!winter home gift tag copyright 2008 Valerie Walsh Read Full Story

This is a blast from the past, 1995 to be precise. When John managed Lode they used to make flyers to get people to come to their gigs. This was for Halloween and I turned each person from the band into a pumpkin :) Inara George was the lone girl in the band and she is the SKINNY pumpkin and all the rest are the boys: Gabe Cowan, Robin Moxey and Lon Baker. Sometimes the bands artist friends would make the flyers and sometimes John would come knocking on my door to ask if I could crank out a ... Read Full Story

This is a frightfully good Halloween because Amy Cartwright is the winner of the Uprinting Sticker Giveaway! John pulled Amy's name from the 5 women that placed comments and she has won 250 full color stickers. Hoping you show us your stickers when you have finished them Amy because I know they are gonna be great! Happy Halloween and Congratulations :)PumpkinHouse Place Cards by Valerie Walsh copyright 2009 Read Full Story

A "fast" GROWING and very GREEN trend are PUMPKIN Houses. Grow one today!Steve Millers Pumpkin Houseclick on to pictures and links to view larger"Pumpkin House with Tar the cat" Stationary Card for Monday Artday Stationary 2009 Valerie Walsh "Pumpkin House with Topanga Crow" Stationary Card for Monday Artday Stationary 2009 Valerie Walsh Submissions for Illustration Friday's "Fast" theme.Just want to mention that JC & Doodlestreet won the Business Card Giveaway and Diana Evans won the ... Read Full Story

Tonight is the start of my free Postcard Giveaway sponsored by Uprinting. Please leave me a comment on what you plan to do with these postcards and 2 lucky winners can win 100 postcards that are not just for mailing. They can be used as invitations, recipe gift cards, thank you cards, note cards and so much more. I will receive a set for hosting this contest and I can't wait to make some new postcards!GIVEAWAY PRIZE: 100 Postcards for Two Lucky Winners SIZE: 4x6; PAPER: 14pt. Cardstock Gloss;... Read Full Story

The winners of the Uprinting Business Card Giveaway were chosen by John tonight and they are Pam Jones aka Doodlestreet and JC of JC's CoffeeHouse! Very exciting news, I am happy for both of you and me too because I receive a set as well :) This is fun and free so enter my next contest because I am sure you will win either some groovy stickers or some postcards, yay! Would love to see your finished cards too so please send a link when you have the finished results.Business Card Printing Read Full Story