Bleu Blanc Rouge

Three new french-inspired card designs...

A Couple of Patterns...

One Kiss...

My latest papercut, commissioned as a first anniversary present from a wife to her husband...

Neal's Yard Remedies

At the end of last year, I worked on a really lovely project for Neal's Yard Remedies (through my agent Lemonade) - a pattern design for their new mother & baby gift boxes. Since then I've been checking their website and looking in their shops every now and then to see if the products have been launched, and hey presto, the other day I saw that they had been! Very exciting to see them in the flesh, and although the design has been slightly tweaked here and there since my last version (see swatch at the bottom of the post),  I think they look really lovely!

Happy Congratulations

A couple of cards I made for friends last week, using some lovely patterned papers I bought the other day - total bargain from the cheap and cheerful Tiger...

Spring Has Sprung!

Do you know the great website Print & Pattern? Well, they have a couple of really inspiring books out and just ran a call for submissions to an upcoming Kids publication which I just entered at the 11th hour. Here are a couple of suitably springy patterns that I sent in...

A to Z

I'm on a paper cutting mission at the moment, having realised it's one of my favourite things to do creatively. So, I made a big alphabet for our wall at home, and am now doing a series of smaller pictures to sell in my online shop (hopefully done and on sale in the next few weeks).

Oh, and I thought I was very clever in realising that the H and the I in the alphabet would be next to each other and could make a nice message picked out in gold leaf, then found out by doing a Google images search that plenty of other people have already realised the very same thing (although executed differently)!!

Flock

Here's another new pattern, inspired by some flock wrapping paper that I have covering my desk drawers...

Happy Christmas!!

Festive Fever

It might be too early to be getting in a festive frame of mind, but the shops say otherwise and it is starting to get quite chilly and dark early, and so here are some new christmas card designs...

Papercut

My sister's boyfriend commissioned this papercut for her 30th birthday last month. It's some of the lyrics to one of her favourite Joni Mitchell songs - A Case Of You - painted with blackboard paint and mounted on some nice textured rag paper. I really enjoy doing these papercuts, even if my fingers don't thank me for the intense grip they're forced to endure!

Pantone Table

You've probably seen all the Pantone merchandise around - mugs, chairs, storage tins etc. - and I'm sure everyone's over it, but not me, so I decided the other day to paint our Ikea coffee table as a Pantone chip. The colour reference isn't accurate, which I suppose in a way defeats the object, but I think that's ok.

Tiling

Looking through my scrapbook the other day I couldn't help but notice an awful lot of Moroccan-y tiles that I've torn out of magazines... so I thought I try designing some of my own!

Colourful Cards

Some new card designs that build on one I showed a few weeks ago as part of a competition... now I just need to find someone to publish them!!

Patterned

This week has been very exciting... I've gone part time in my day job to have more time to illustrate and paint. Working from home is taking a bit of getting used to, but it's very exciting! And hopefully it'll mean more work to share here, and more time for posting. These are some patterns I've made for Tigerprint's Male Pattern competition...

Oh Mother

I'm still persistently entering Tigerprint's monthly card design competitions, in the hope that one day I might hit the nail on the head!! Here are the entries I've just submitted (at the 11th hour) for this month's brief - contemporary Mother's Day designs...

For Posterity

I've been working on a new website design and build in the last few months, which has been a steep learning curve, and is now online and up and running. The website is for a great salvage and reclamation yard in the Cotswolds called Posterity, they have all sorts of treasures - furniture, antiques, amazing chandeliers... They're having a bit of a rebrand, and a friend of mine has just opened a café called Salvation on the site. It's well worth a visit if you find yourself in the Ledbury area! Here's a screenshot and link to the website...

Hello Petal

Last week I did a couple of paper cuts as commissions for wedding presents and thought while I had the craft knife out I'd do one to put up in my own flat. I had a black frame waiting to be filled so decided to go monochrome...

Chop Chop

Do you know the cookware brand Joseph Joseph? They have a lovely bright, witty range of products. Well, they've been running a competition to design glass worktop savers, I entered the other week so just thought I'd share my entries...