Illustration Collaboration

The above photo pretty much sums up this collaboration.  Myself and Bernadette Moke aka the Downtown Doodler, both have online shops/stores.  We are also both quite new to the selling our work to actual lovely customers.  Therefore we have spent quite a bit of time sending back and forth emails full of tips and suggestions for each other.  It's been amazing having someone who you know will tell you whats what and offer you their two cents when they know you want it.

From this came the idea of our collaboration.  We both wanted little thank-you cards to include in orders that we send out to say thank you to our customers.  I love Bernadette's style and she loves mine, it seemed natural that we do something for each other.

The rules to this collaboration were:

• One sided illustration
• A6/Postcard size
• Include an inspirational quote

The idea was that we would design a card for each other that we could send out with a little note on it - a thank you card/compliment slip type thing!

What actually happened was amazing.  We both got really inspired and actually did FOUR designs for each other.  We hadn't specified a number of designs but it seemed an unspoken thing that one design would of been perfectly lovely.

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These are the four beautiful designs that Bernadette illustrated for me, amazing no?

If you'd like to see the designs I did for her, then please keep an eye on her blog as she'll be posting them on there soon!

Thank you

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Thank you

Thank you friends and family for a lovely Christmas!

Last year I went for the classic round swirly lollypop and this year we have the Christmas tree edition!  It always inspires me at Christmas dinner to see these lollies staring at me, waiting for me to finish my dinner.  Yes thats right, they are sat in the middle of the table looking lovely, the whole time!  So, of course, come thank you card writing, they are all I can think about!  I thought I'd share my process of the watercolour with you all.  It's different to normal you see.  I have not used any black fine liner, or fine liner of any colour for that matter.  And for once, I have taken the time to do layers of colour!  It was slowly built up over a day, very patiently I might add, to give it a deeper, vibrant colour.

Enjoy!

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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!

Thank you!

A massive thank you to everyone who made my Christmas! Love you all xxx