Robo Binary Cards Make Etsy Front Page

My 2009 edition Robo Binary Cards popped up on Ety's front page today! A treasury created by NiuTaller featured my cards along with some great bits of geekery like these wooden test tube racks and this pen made from a real circuit board. Check it out!

Treasury Link for Binary Thank You Cards

My Binary Robo "Beep You" thank you cards have made it into a new treasury by Stockannette

http://www.etsy.com/treasury_list.php?room_id=73024

Check'em out and all the other great items in the "Peas and Thankyous" treasury! 

Binary Thankyou Cards Make Etsy Front Page!

So I log on Etsy this morning to inform a couple buyers that I'll be shipping their goods when I notice my page views have spiked... I take a quick peek at CraftCult and find out that my "Beep You" binary robot thankyou cards were featured on the frontpage.... Ok so it was at 2am... still makes me smile... Here's the treasury from CraftCults Treasury Archive ( I tried using their embed code but it wouldn't actually render here =(...)

From doodle to final form

Recently I've been making these binary robot cards. And I thought this was a good time to review how I often go from doodle into a "final" form.

To begin though, I should note that the cards original inspiration comes from a doodle over 3 years in age, that resulted in a painting I currently have hanging in my living room.

One night while looking at the above painting, hanging rather uncomfortably over the edge of my couch I doodled onto my floor what would eventually become a limited series of silkscreen wooden and paper cards.

Below is the first iteration from floor drawing to hand drawn wooden cards. The last of this series I managed to ship and sell on Etsy, while the first, the heart one, I gave as a "tester" gift to my sweetums.

The second derivative of the floor drawing was a more refined limited silkscreen run on smooth found wood silkscreen prints and a companion limited paper card series. From the hand drawn series I expanded on the use of binary as a geeky but unique and appropriate method to say "Thank U"

All of these, of course, are now on my Etsy site, *hint*hint*wink*wink*.

I hope, in sharing these stories, it'll make you think twice about what can come from those meandering lines you may be scrawling about.