Happy Hanukkah from the ladies at The Nimbus Factory

Last Minute Holiday Specials

Our newsletter is up and running! Click here to view some special holiday news!

Also, we're offering 10% off plus FREE SHIPPING on orders over $75 until December 18th, so don't wait around! Just enter HOLIDAYSHOP at checkout to redeem :)

Thank you!

Thanks to everyone who participated in our giveaway! We're grateful to have such awesome fans.

Please keep an eye out for more special events!

Giveaway #6: Totebags!

Today's product feature is your final chance to win, but we're going to give you your choice of one of two designs for today's prize.

Introducing our debut line of tote bags!

Cloud Creatures Tote

This beautifully illustrated tote features an assortment of creatures floating in our signature nimbus clouds above.

Measures 17” x 14.5”

'Sweet Jams' Tote

Store all your favorite groceries in this eco-friendly tote, including your PB and JAM.

Measures 14" x 13" x 4"

Click here to enter our Nimbus Factory Giveaway contest!

Enter before midnight tonight (PST) to win your tote bag of choice!
Note: Totebags may vary slightly from photo.

We'll send you an email tomorrow if you've won! Good luck!

Giveaway #5: 'Fantastic Beasts' Birthday & Event Calendar!

Today we're giving you a chance to win our  
'Fantastic Beasts' Birthday & Event Calendar!

Record your most important events and special dates in this mythologically themed perpetual calendar, featuring fantastic beasts of myth and legend!

Click here to enter our Nimbus Factory Giveaway contest!

Enter before midnight tonight (PST) to win the 'Fantastic Beasts' Birthday & Event Calendar!
We'll send you an email tomorrow if you've won! Good luck!

Giveaway #4: Flights of Fancy Journal!

If you're a fan of the 'Flights of Fancy' stationery notecards, then you'll love these 

'Flights of Fancy' journals. 

Each journal is 5.8" x 8.3"and perfectbound with 96 artfully designed pages for you to record your daydreams and doodles.

Click here to enter our Nimbus Factory Giveaway contest!

Enter before midnight tonight (PST) to win a 'Flights of Fancy' Journal!
We'll send you an email tomorrow if you've won! Good luck!

Giveaway #3: Flights of Fancy Stationery Notecards!!

Today we'll be giving away our  'Flights of Fancy' Notecard set! 

Each set includes 5 double-sided notecards with flying pigs, tigers, whales, snails, and elephants. You're sure to impress anyone you send these quirky, colorful notecards to!

Designs included are shown below:

Click here to enter our Nimbus Factory Giveaway contest!

Enter before midnight tonight (PST) to win the 'Flights of Fancy' Notecard set!
We'll send you an email tomorrow if you've won! Good luck!

Giveaway #2: Everyday Occasions card collection!

We're on day two of our giveaway! You still have 5 more chances to win :)

Proudly presenting our new line of colorful Everyday Occasion cards, perfect for sending to friends you want to reconnect with!

 We're giving away a set of (4) 5x5 cards with matching white envelopes (shown below).

Click here to enter our Nimbus Factory Giveaway contest!

Enter before midnight tonight (PST) to win the 'Everyday Occasions' Card Collection!
We'll send you an email tomorrow if you've won! Good luck!

Giveaway #1: 'Mythical Creatures' Holiday Card Set!

To celebrate the release of our new products, we've decided to give you a chance to win a different new product each day from now until December 6th! It's our little way of spreading the holiday cheer this year :)

Today, we're featuring our brand new 
'Mythical Creatures' Holiday card collection. 

The set includes 12 4x6 cards, each profiling a different mythical creature. The cards are printed with silver metallic ink for a festive shimmer and have cheery bright red interiors. Matching red envelopes included.

Click here to enter our Nimbus Factory Giveaway contest!

Enter before midnight tonight (PST) to win the 'Mythical Creatures' Holiday Card Set!
We'll send you an email tomorrow if you've won! Good luck!

New Product Giveaways starting December 1st!

In honor of our new line of holiday and everyday products, we're going to give you a chance to

win a different new product each day 

from December 1st until December 6th!

New products include:

Mythical Creatures Holiday Card Set

Spread some holiday cheer with this limited edition, metallic printed holiday card set,

featuring 12 mythical creatures with seasonal greetings!

Creatures include:

Dracula | Dragon | Elf | Faun | Hydra | Jack Frost | Kraken

Mermaid | Nymph | Sphinx | Unicorn | Yeti

Each boxed set includes (12) 4"x6" metallic printed cards

with bright red interiors and matching red envelopes.

Everyday Occasions Card Collection

This set of punchy, geometric cards are fitting for a friendly hi.

Set of (4) 5 x 5" cards with white envelopes

Flights of Fancy Notecard Set

Each notecard in this set has a friendly greeting to pass along to your closest pals!

Set of (5) double-sided notecards with A2 spearmint envelopes

Fantastic Beasts Birthday & Event Calendar

Record your most important events and special dates in this mythologically themed perpetual calendar, featuring fantastic beasts of myth and legend!

Includes (1) 6"x17" 12 panel hanging calendar

Flights of Fancy Journals

Our Flights of Fancy journals come in 4 unique themes with piggies, orcas, elephants, and tigers each hopping from the clouds above!

Each journal is 5.8" x 8.3"and perfectbound with 96 artfully designed pages for you to record your daydreams and doodles.

Sweet Jams Tote

Store all your favorite groceries in this eco-friendly tote, including your PB and JAM.

Measures 14" x 13" x 4"

Cloud Creatures Tote

This beautifully illustrated tote features an assortment of creatures floating in our signature nimbus clouds above. 
Measures 17” x 14.5”

Keep an eye out this Thursday for a chance to win! We're so happy to share our products with you!

Pre-launch madness

Last weekend, I flew down to San Diego to assist Phyllis with packaging and labeling our new products.  I'm really proud of what we've accomplished for this launch, and I can't wait to share our products with the world!

 It's so rewarding to see everything printed and packaged :)

 

 

 We even had a little helper! 

Check back on November 26th to shop our new line of products (and maybe even win some!)

Support small businesses (like us!) and receive $25!

 You can receive a one-time $25 statement credit when you register any eligible American Express^® Card and use that Card to make a purchase of $25 or more at a small business on November 26, 2011.

So...buy from us, and you'll basically get your money back! Pretty awesome deal, huh?

Click here to register your American Express card!

Kali Ciesemier

Kali Ciesemier, a MICA grad, has been rockin' the freelance illustration scene. Her attention to detail and color is simply amazing. She blew me away with this children's activity booklet she illustrated for Amtrak. Every page is beautiful! I want to take a train ride just to pick up one of these.

You can follow her tumblr here!

Happy Halloween!

I hope everyone is having a delightfully spooky Halloween! Although I usually have a hard time settling on an idea for my costume, I love keeping an eye out for super creative or funny costumes. Friend and former colleague, Dan Liuzzi, easily took the cake last year for most creative/effective/funny Halloween costume. Check out the 8 bit version of himself! Truly amazing.

p.s. Dan is also an amazing artist, so while you're at his blog, take a look at the other awesome stuff he makes!

Music Painting

This is a great video to start the new week. Watch Alice Ninni animate the serene song “Lacrime de Giulietta” by Italian composer Matteo Negrin.

Angie Wang, Illustratress

I came across Angie Wang's booth at the Alternative Press Expo and was immediately in love. I am currently trying to figure out where to hang this print, entitled 'Secret Jungle', in my apartment. The movement and colors are fantastic.

Check out more of her beautiful art at http://www.okchickadee.com/

Animal Kingdom playing cards- Back by popular demand!

Get 'em here!

Thank you, Steve

Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes.

The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them.

About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They invent. They imagine. They heal. They explore. They create. They inspire. They push the human race forward.

Maybe they have to be crazy.

How else can you stare at an empty canvas and see a work of art? Or sit in silence and hear a song that’s never been written? Or gaze at a red planet and see a laboratory on wheels?

We make tools for these kinds of people.

While some see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.

APE and Kate Beaton!

Happy Monday everyone! I just had an overwhelming experience at this weekend's APE (Alternative Press Expo) in San Francisco. I was totally unprepared for such a huge amount of talent, all in one place. For my next few posts, I'm going to profile some artists from the expo that are simply amazing.

To start off, I'd like to introduce the hilariously clever Kate Beaton. Her comics are delightfully smart, absurd, and laugh out loud funny. It's so refreshing to see comics that incorporate history in a fun way. I would highly recommend picking up her book, 'Hark! A Vagrant'. 

Check out her comics at http://harkavagrant.com/

Cutest Food

There are many interests the four of us here at Nimbus share, and one of those things is food. More specifically, cute food.
I've been drooling over this blog I stumbled upon the other day called Cutest Food. Everything is so cute, I could just gobble it up.