Saturday 30 July 2011

Post every month for a year! Yippeeee


The lovely Jessica Mack (@BrowanPaperBunny) decided to do a RT random pic competition and the lucky winner was to get post every month for a year.  I was pretty happy when the search engine randomly picked me!  This is the first post I've received :-D it's so lovely, I've been showing everyone I know! My particular favourite is the rhino notecard, I have admired these since she created them, and the 'Peri' Penguin zine was such a bonus - so cute! And if you open him out, theres a Peri dressed as an Indian! AMAZING!

So, thank you Jessica.

Wednesday 27 July 2011

Seasons Cafe Deli Old Amersham

Cactus paintings






These lovely cactus paintings are available to buy at Seasons Cafe @ Rowan Garden Centre.  Or if you're after a different plant/flower then please do get in touch and we can talk 'garden illustration'!

Currently they are brighting up the walls at the cafe but I have a few more up my sleeve so don't worry about blank walls.

Thank you for looking.

Wednesday 20 July 2011

Thank you Cards







Thank you cards with a little more personality.  I like to illustrate my thank-you cards with what i'm saying thank you for.  Especially with birthdays thank-you's (which are what these are for) as I often get a little money from Aunts and Grandparents and I think it's nice to show them what you bought with the money.  So these cards do just that, show you guys my new purchases!  Apart from the cafe scene ones, those just look pretty.  One is for my Granny though as I want to put her money towards a scanner but that doesn't make for a pretty illustration now does it?

This batch also has the type letter-pressed by myself, these were the only 'thank-you's' I did but I also letter-pressed some birthday and other cute cards.

Keep an eye out for the other designs cropping up!

Saturday 16 July 2011

draw and pass it on


The loverly Louise Whitmore has started up a traveling sketchbook and picked me for the second entry!  Check out more about it here drawandpassiton.tumblr.com

The main idea is that you get a question and have to illustrate your answer.  My question was 'What are you wearing today?'  As I received the sketchbook on my birthday night out I have illustrated my outfit I wore the next day :-D what a good weekend it was! Happy times.

Who will get it next?

Floral Chair Series

These chairs are inspired by the new Cafe I've helped open with Seasons.  It's Seasons cafe @ Rowan, Rowan is a lovely Garden Centre which you can find @ www.rowangardencentre.co.uk/  We had to re-upholster most of the chairs as although saved from a pub which was refurbishing, needed a fair amount of work on them, and they turned out pretty well to the three of us that worked on them having never upholstered before!  All the chairs are different, theres no more than 4 of the same, which adds to the quirky feel of the Cafe.  The fabric was such a find!  I sent Andrea off with instructions to find a fabric that possibly matched our new logo (which I designed) and low and behold she found one spot on, the right flower and the right colours.  These watercolours of the chairs will be up on the wall, giving it a more friendly feel for our customers.



Friday 1 July 2011

Snail Mail Art Swap with Creative Collective

So I recently took part in the Snail Mail Art Swap which was Creative Collective's June project.  Through Swap-bot I signed up and was assigned 3 people to sent arty goods too by a set date, and 3 people somewhere out in the world got me to send to as well in the same manner.  Such a lovely idea, and so lovely to receive little packages through the post full of surprise!

I've now received all 3 of my snail mail packages, and have heard back from 2 of the 3 that I sent out - I hope the 3rd gets there safely too!




This lovely vintage scarf came to me all the way from Australia from Anne Brito, yes those are golf clubs in the design!



This was the second package to come through my letterbox, it was like unwrapping a present, so well thought through!  I'm so excited about using all of these bits :-)  Thank you Jana Miller from one of my favourite parts of the world no less, California!


My last snail mail to arrive, today!  Thank you Cat Beloverly for the lovely origami papers and fold pattern, I shall let you know how I get on with it :-D

Did I send you a snail mail package? Let me know if it got to you safely!