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Easter cards, birthday cards, anniversary cards and Alexandria greeting cards all have photography, art and design done here at Yellow Dot Shop. I am hand printing sheets of wrapping paper for various holidays. My purses are sewn with my own printed fabric. Indoor Store?My hope is to find an affordable indoor retail space, now that Covid is hopefully coming to an end. I am thrilled to display my cards, books and items in an outdoor tent, but it is challenging. An indoor space will allow me to hang framed prints and art, and have all my books out at once....

For March my focus is switching to St. Patrick's Day. I carved a shamrock shaped printing block for several projects. I hand-mixed green inks and with gold printer's ink I have been working on wrapping paper in my basement workspace. Each sheet of wrapping paper is unique with decorative elements printed with bottle tops, mardi gras beads and anything I can find. The other day I bought my first load of t-shirts in bulk. I didn't think the shirts would arrive on time for printing, heat treating, photographing and uploading to the website, so I bought additional single gray and...

Hello from Ellen at Yellow Dot Designs and Yellow Dot Shop! For Valentine's Day I have bright purses, hand made wrapping paper and cards to mail - your Valentine's Day is covered!   Purses on Sale! Unique, hand-made purses! Interior zipped pockets and custom fabrics. Only one of each!   Cards Single cards or packs of five with envelopes. Hand painted and unique to Yellow Dot Shop!   Wrapping Paper Hand-printed wrapping paper for Valentine's Day. Found only here. Paired with matching ribbon. Only one of each!   Jewelry Vintage jewelry reminiscent of the 1920's. Fun costume jewelry and semi-precious...

January 15th is the birthday of American civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. One of Yellow Dot Shop's missions is to acknowledge the different cultures that live side by side in the US. I aim to carry items on the culture and history of African Americans, Native Americans and British Americans. For King's birthday, I embarked on my first two-color printing project that would require tightly registering the colors. I created this image of the Reverend starting with a photo and refined it down to simple shapes. I hand-inked the letters. It's a short print run of six posters...

Huge discounts on custom designed cards and calendars. Holiday ornaments are half off. See my SALE page for all the year-end deals! See the Email Sale Annoucement here: https://conta.cc/2MjAOq1