Small Town Girl Makes Good...Coffee

Okay, I didn't make the coffee, but I did design the labels for our local coffee shop, Grounds for Coffee.  The labels just arrived and I am over the moon excited! 

I did not design the logo in the center, which I just love!  I blew it up, traced it and drew it with opaque gel pens, the same medium the label was created in.

The owners, Suzy and Dan Daily, like some of my radiating pattern designs (like Hot Pot) and thought it would work well with a sunflower motif.
They receive their coffee bean blends in large bags, put them in the 1 lb bags and write the blend in the blank space.  Below is the cup sleeve I designed for them.  I think I'm way too excited about this, but I can't stop jumping up and down!

They're here! The coffee cup sleeves that I designed for our local coffee shop chain are finally here!

       I've had wall shows at two of the shops and the owners approached me with the idea of designing the cup sleeves, coffee bag labels and a t-shirt. One of the owners, Suzie, bought the drawing below. It's called Matisse's Misbehaving Dogs. I was just thrilled that someone got my humor!    

  I was so excited! The sleeve is the first to go to print. My sister-in-law frequents one of the shops and has been dying to show her group what the sleeves were going to look like, but we held back sharing (yes, I've been dying to share it with you, too) until they were in the shops.  

 All of the drawings are done with opaque gel pens on black paper and coffee cups are a huge part of my designs!

 Our Lady of Lattes is one of my favorites. 

 I am over the moon!

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