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Melissa | Fine Lime Designs
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Canadian illustrator, graphic designer & writer. I like to draw 🤖🌷🏡🌈. Creator of Miss Doodle. Snail mail, stationery and book lover. Host of the And She Looked Up Podcast for Canadian women who create for a living. 🇨🇦🇺🇦
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Melissa | Fine Lime Designs @finelimedesigns.bsky.social · Jan 27
I'm Melissa, a self-employed graphic designer, illustrator and writer based out Canada's wet west coast. I love bold, bright colour, snail mail and stationery, books and dogs. I draw a cute little red haired stick girl named Miss Doodle who cartwheels through life with kindness. Nice to meet you!
a set of colourful notecards with images of balloons, rainbows, smiley faces, mushrooms, watering cans and books on them kraft envelopes hand illustrated with leaves, vines and berries with some postage stamps a circular, hand drawn mandala done in shades of green, yellow and orange a sticker showing a shelf of brightly coloured books in rainbow colour order with text that reads "read more books"
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I'm still here! Still doing 100 Days of Envelope Art for #the100dayproject! Been staying off socials to avoid doom scrolling too much because... "gestures at everything". Just wrapping up week 3 but here are Day 13 &14 from last week!
#snailmail #envelopeart #snailmailrevolution
an ivory envelope decorated with hand drawn hearts in different sizes and shade of pink and red an ivory envelope decorated with assorted hand drawn yellow happy faces all on a yellow background
March 15, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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Day 12 of 100 days of envelope art for #the100dayproject. Was inspired by another piece of art that I made a few years ago.
#envelopeart #snailmail #snailmailrevolution
A white envelope on a green background. The envelope is illustrated with assorted flowers and stars
March 9, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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I have so much catching up to do. The light was too lousy all week to take pics. Here’s day 11 of 100 days of envelope art for #the100dayproject

#envelopeart #snailmail #snailmailrevolution
A white envelope on an orange backdrop. The envelope is illustrated with a snail with a heart shaped shell that says snail mail and various flowers and grass
March 9, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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Arrrgh I wish there was a way to edit/add alt text after you’ve posted!!
March 5, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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Day 10 of 100 days of envelope art for #the100dayproject. I made the mistake of watching that speech last night and then watching the news afterwards and being so freaking fed up. So I opted for some late night colour therapy.

#snailmail #snailmailrevolution #envelopeart #dailyartpractice
March 5, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Day 9 of 100 days of envelope art for #the100dayproject. A few notes 🎵🎵😂 just a black sharpie for this one.

#envelopeart #dailyartpractice #snailmail #snailmailrevolution
A white envelope decorated with illustrated piano keys and musical notes
March 5, 2025 at 5:53 AM
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Day 8 of 100 illustrated envelopes for #the100dayproject and I’m finally caught up posting the right envelope on the right day! Switching to ivory envelopes for week 2.

#envelopeart #snailmail #snailmailrevolution #illustration #dailyartpractice #booksky
A cream coloured envelope illustrated with books, plants and a cup of tea. Sharpie markers in assorted colour lie next to the envelope.
March 3, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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Day 7 of 100 days of envelope art for #the100dayproject. It’s so lovely and warm out I have ice cream on the brain!

#envelopeart #illustration #snailmail #snailmailrevolution #dailyartpractice
A Kraft envelope with illustrated ice cream cones and bowls of ice cream with a tub of ice cream and some ice cream ingredients.
March 2, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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Day 6 of #the100project. Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦 🇨🇦

#dailyartchallenge #dailyartpractice #envelopeart #snailmail #illustration #snailmailrevolution
a kraft envelope decorated with illustrated sunflowers and blue ribbons the back flap of a kraft envelope decorated with illustrated sunflowers and blue ribbons
March 1, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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I'm a behind with posting. It felt weird to post yesterday with everything going on. But, here is Day 5 of #the100dayproject. Some ladybugs!

#dailyartchallenge #envelopeart #stationerylove #snailmail #snailmaillove #illustration
March 1, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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Day 4 of #the100dayproject (from yesterday) and I'm back with the party theme again but this one is all about birthdays!

#snailmail #envelopeart #art #illustration #snailmailrevolution #dailyartchallenge #artpractice
a kraft envelope illustrated with a birthday theme included a three layer chocolate cake, candles, bunting and confetti. Balloons are visible on the back flap and there are 5 sharpie markers the back of a kraft envelope illustrated with balloons and confetti in assorted colours
February 28, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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1. The sun is shining after SO. MUCH. RAIN.
2. It's warm enough to have my studio window open for the first time this year
3. I saw crocuses at the foot of my driveway
4. My puppy is actually having a nap and I can do some work
5. A civil, polite Liberal leadership debate - we're in good hands
whitneyyoh.bsky.social ThatAnxiousArtist @whitneyyoh.bsky.social · Feb 26
Fuck their terror tactics here are 5 things I’m grateful for today. QRP with yours.

1. My friend hit 4k followers because of the awesome art community on here.
2. My other friends beat a personal record having the most posts per day in her art challenge.
3. My dogs
4. My life
5. RESISTANCE
February 26, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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Day 3 of #the100dayproject and it's party time! I'm going to do more of this design but in different colours I think. Because I like them and they're fun and I can totally use these with my snail mail!

#snailmail #envelopeart #snailmailrevolution #snailmaillove #illustration #canadianillustrator
a kraft envelope hand illustrated with balloons, party hats, bunting and confetti in blue, yellow and fuchsia. Three Sharpie markers in those colours sit next to the envelope
February 26, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Day 2 of #the100dayproject. From yesterday - a little video to show you the whole envelope. It's an Octopus hug! 🐙

#illustration #envelopeart #snailmail #snailmailrevolution #art #dailyart #artchallenge #artsyky
February 25, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Day 1 of #the100dayproject. From yesterday. It was a crazy day so this was very last minute and it was too dark to photograph last night! Envelope No 1 of 100 days of #envelopeart!

#snailmail #illustration #canadianillustrator #snailmailrevolution
February 24, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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Ok I've decided I WILL do #the100dayproject. I'm going to do 100 days of hand illustrated envelopes. I feel like that's something manageable, time and size wise, as well as being something I love to do but never have time for! #artist #art #illustration #snailmail
two kraft envelopes illustrated with assorted plants and leaves and ready with postage for mailing
February 22, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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Is anyone out there starting #the100dayproject tomorrow? I can't decide whether to take part or not this year (I've done several of them) but I'd love to see what others are doing! I'm feeling a bit lacking in inspiration or creativity lately. Maybe taking part will give me a boost? #illustration
February 22, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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new #podcast episode finally out. Was tough to keep up with the news cycle but hopefully this helps #canadian artists, makers and creatives navigate the chaos with their creative businesses!
www.buzzsprout.com/879889/episo...

#creativitypodcast #artpodcast #canadiancreatives #creativesmallbusiness
February 18, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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Got totally consumed with doom scrolling the last two weeks (it's hard not to!). Today, I'm editing a podcast episode on how Canadian creators can make their small businesses more resilient in times of chaos. It makes me feel like I'm doing something sorta helpful-ish? 😬 It'll be out tomorrow. 🎙
February 16, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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I just want a cup of tea, some soothing music, a cuddle with my pup and an hour or two to make something and forget about what a gong show the world is.
a batch of assorted, colourful watercolour washes on cardstock to be used as backgrounds for future projects
February 2, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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A little process video of one of my most recent mandala projects. I find them soooo soothing to do by hand in a way that digital drawing just doesn’t do for me! Anyone else feel the same?
#mandala #art
January 31, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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Ok I've introduced myself - now meet Joey. AKA the Master of Disaster or Agent K-OS. He's 6 mos old next week. Weighs 50 lbs and still needs a cuddle every afternoon with me in my studio office chair. It's not comfortable for either of us but he doesn't care. 😂
#dogsky
a six month old yellow labrador puppy staring at the camera while being cuddled by his human mum in a blue hoodie
January 31, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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Now is the time to read lots of books. Read history books, biographies, banned books, books on economics and politics, poetry, short stories, and something fun - just because. Reading is power, knowledge and information. It's a way to fight back and resist.

#art #booksky #illustration
a handdrawn black stick figure girl with curly black hair, a green shirt, pink pants and green converse sneakers holding a big stack of books in a rainbow of colours with titles like A Funny Book, A Scary Book, A Story Book, A Sad Book, A Good Book, A Mystery, A Smart Book. Text in rainbow colours next to her reads "read lots of books"
January 29, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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Did you hear about the artist who would only paint cats?

He couldn't help it. They were his mews.
January 29, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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Did I mention I like really bad, corny jokes?
danmentos.com dan mentos @danmentos.com · Jan 28
Boston Market recently changed their name to Boston MARKET, a move that increased their market capitalization by 500%
January 28, 2025 at 4:47 AM