Happy Friday! I'm spreading the holiday spirit this weekend by offering a deal on selected children's art prints! Now until SUNDAY DEC. 13, selected prints will come with a FREE WHITE MATTE when purchased through our Etsy Shop! I've created a separate Shop...
This holiday season Etsy has offered a free gift promo app that builds an instance gift ad for its store owners. Cool, right?! I've tried it and started to share these images on the AbbyDora Design Facebook page. Here's where...
{Title Page with front cover reference} I'm very proud to be sharing this interior book design with you all. It's a work of love! THE LIGHTNING QUEEN by Laura Resau was published last week by Scholastic. It's a beautiful...
{My watercolor palette} Happy National Color Day, everyone! Did you know about this holiday? I just discovered it and I will now be marking my calendar. One more reason to LOVE the month of October! In honor of this special...
{New book with custom hand-lettered textured title type} Books take months to produce and years to publish, so I sometimes loose track of publication dates of the book I designed. This happened to me recently with these 2 fun...
I heart paper and so I was thrilled to be the highlighted shop of the month and interviewed by the ETSY PAPER TEAM this week. This is a group of artists who are crazy about paper, like I am. They...
[caption id="attachment_5526" align="aligncenter" width="500"] {Here's a sample of some of the redesigned covers} This news story caught my eye since my Book Illustration course I teach at RIT just finished a project of redesigning YA Covers to give them a...
{I'm all smiles!} Phew! What a festival weekend! It was rainy both days, but as you can see I'm all smiles after it was announced that I won the MERIT AWARD at this year's Clothesline Festival. This award is...
It's this weekend! It's this weekend! Will you stop into the AbbyDora Desgin booth? I hope so! It's time for the CLOTHESLINE FESTIVAL on the lovely grounds of Rochester's Memorial Art Gallery. Here are the details: 2015 Clothesline Festival SATURDAY Sept 12th 10am-6pm SUNDAY Sept 13th...
Sesame Street has been in the news lately. Maybe you have heard that Sesame Street is moving to HBO or that Maria has retired! There's change in the air on that street! {Sonia Manzano with Elmo} Like many from my generation...