Kawaii y Latina x Babylipgloss1995 Bumper Sticker

One of my favorite things about running Kawaii y Latina is getting to make cute merch to go along with the blog. Admittedly, sometimes my ideas exceed my current skill set. One of these ideas I had was to make a bumper sticker and the perfect solution to this was to reach out to an artist to collaborate with on this to bring this idea to life. I had to reach out to none other than Jessica Esperanza aka @Babylipgloss1995. I've featured her on our Instagram before and her Esty shop is listed on our shopping master list so I'm happy to have a proper blog post dedicated to her art. I was happy that she was totally down for collaboration. I pretty much gave her free range on the design because I knew anything she came up with was going to be amazing.

A picture of artist Jessica Esperanza included in one of her journal spreads

I've been following Jessica on Instagram for many years at this point and seeing her art always brings me so much joy! I love the combination of nostalgic Latino themes in her art and the super cute art style that is so unique to her work. I first met Jessica at one of my Rilakkuma fan meet ups a few years ago and we've kept in touch since. I also have a bunch of her stickers all over my journals. I did a little photo shoot for the stickers and sprinkled some Mexican candy charms I had on hand to go with the theme. So insanely happy with how these turned out and I'm excited to see how you guys use them.

Below is the final product of the bumper sticker and a limited quantity is now up on our shop. Here is a description of the design straight from Jessica herself. "My name is Jessica Esperanza (aka @babylipgloss1995) and when Nathalie commissioned me to make a ‘Kawaii y Latina’ bumper sticker my mind was immediately flowing with cute ideas ☆ !!! I knew I for sure wanted to draw my trinkets and favorite Mexican + Japanese snacks scattered around, like on a picnic blanket then it hit me…serape. A serape is a Mexican bright stripped woven blanket so I knew that would make the perfect background and of course I had to change the traditional colors to fit my style more <3 !"

I also included some of my other favorite art pieces of Jessica's that also give very much Kawaii y Latina for you guys to admire <3 You can shop the new bumper sticker now here!