Click on any picture to BUY NOW. The onesies, bibs, and shirts are all available with a variety of skin tones and hair and eye colors. Chose the message Little Cupcake or Cupcake. The pictures are available with a drawing of ababy beside the cupcake or with the cupcake alone. Since more than babies and toddlers answer to the nickname Cupcake, the design with the cupcake alone is available on kids, juniors, women's, plus-size, and maternity clothes, too.
You can email me at drawnbyk@gmail.com, and I'll happily personalize any product at no extra charge. Just describe the design you're choosing (cupcake with baby or without), the coloring (red hair, olive skin, green eyes, blue frosting, purple letters, etc), and the exact message ("Mommy's Little Cupcake", etc).
And there's even a thong available with the cute cupcake drawing for a cheeky Valentine's gift!
I think the cupcake designs are cute and marketable, but I've made some compromises as an artist.
My original sketches were of a more realistic baby laying on her tummy holding the cupcake. I thought the baby looked really sweet, but because the features were more realistic, it would be harder for parents to see their own baby's face in the drawing. It seems like a more generic baby cartoon will sell better.
I am excited about being able to offer a drawing of something that doesn't have a baby. I'm getting better at working with the layers in the Gimp program: my techie hubby would be proud. So many shopkeepers on the Cafepress forum recommended that I branch out and do that, because some parents just don't want their babies wearing babies. It also gives me a chance to offer products for older kids, adults, and men and women. Actually I even offer a Cupcake T-shirt for your pet dog!
I feel torn about the gender issues with this design. With the little hair bow and the abundance of pink, it seems like people will only buy this for girls. I have to admit that I enjoyed being able to draw in a girlie way without trying to make the features so neutral. It seems like the overwhelming majority of parents would only call a girl baby Cupcake (not a boy). But I don't feel good about not at least offering a more boy-friendly option . . . Maybe one with red lettering and blue frosting? Of course, that's still gender stereotyping. There's no reason that a little boy can't wear pink. The bottom line is that I don't have time to make any more variations on this design. I want to create some Purim and St.Patrick's Day designs, and it would be really nice to find some time to work on my Unitarian Universalist designs. Maybe next year I'll expand on what I've done so far.
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