Make your own Angel card

 This next week or so I'll be updating my blog daily with all the work I've not shared yet!

Let's kick off with 2021's Christmas card... a make-your-own angel.

I love doing pop-up or make-your-own cards - they elevate a simple card into something between a card and a gift, and give little hands (or larger ones!) something to do over the Christmas period.

Cards on sale!

Hello my lovelies!

My Christmas cards are now on sale on my Etsy shop. In fact, I've not had time to write this post because they've been selling so fast! I'm afraid all the 10 packs are gone, as well as all the angel-only 6 packs.
There are still plenty of 6 packs of mixed designs, and Home Alone cards in both 6 packs and 10 packs. There are still single cards available in both designs. Head on over to snap some up before they go :)

There's also a separate listing for those who wish to give an added donation to Crisis (on top of the 10% of the profits I'll already be giving.)

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Christmas Card designs 2016

Hello my lovelies!

Introducing this year's Christmas cards designs. This year's Christmas cards are a little bit different. Instead of just having a design on the front, I've created two wrap around designs to make the best use of the available space!
The cards are square, and contain a message inside.

10% of the profits will be going to a homeless charity, Crisis, so you'll be doing some good as well as getting some pretty awesome cards.

I'm just waiting for he proofs to come back so I can make any minor adjustments needed for printing, so hopefully by the end of the month, these bad boys will be available to buy, both separately and in mixed packs.
One is a play on the traditional hymn "Hark the herald angels sing" and the other a loving homage to Home Alone.

Enjoy.

Christmas Card Sneak Peak

This year, provided all goes well, I'll be doing two Christmas Card designs. Here's a sneak peak at one of them.
(Points for getting the reference.)

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Rockets and Robots

Hello all! I hope you had a lovely Christmas and a New Year's Eve that didn't leave you feeling like death.
To celebrate the new year, here's a look into what I've been up to since I last posted... making another ukulele! This one was for my friend Charlie for Christmas - she has an interest in astrophysics, so the only logical choice for her ukulele was rockets and robots. Obviously.
I've got to say, as fun as this was, never again unless it's for heaps of money. The painting is fun but making a musical instrument takes sooooo looooooong!

The little red guy on the base of the ukulele is my favourite.

Enjoy!

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Commission backlog

Hello again!

For a while I've been doing commissions for various Children's text books. It's nice work; varied, fun and usually a bit of a challenge - as you can probably tell from the interesting mix of Christmas, Shakespeare scene and lederhosen.
I wasn't actually sure whether the publisher's would be ok with me putting stuff up here but I checked with my agency and apparently it's absolutely fine so here's a couple of pieces from the backlog!
I'll most likely put a few more up in a week or so (providing I remember lol) so...

See you soon!

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G&B.

So here's some of the pieces I did for the Christmas period! A little trio of portraits of my friend's Greg and Bee for Bee's Secret Christmas Present of Awesome. As you can imagine I had to keep pretty quiet about it up until Greg had given me the all clear.

More to come soon! (It should be more pieces but it'll most likely be me sharing my knitting prowess with you. But there was stripes. That deserves a post.)

See you soon!

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Christmas Cards 2011!

Hello all!

Sorry I've been quiet for so long - it's been a rather hectic month I'm afraid. 

I've been working to finish my research paper (which is finally done and dusted!), make quite a lot of Christmas presents for people (which will be uploaded once they've been opened by the recipients), working on a few commissions (I'll upload what I can), working and (obviously) making Christmas cards for people. 

I was perfectly fine with this workload, but my body organised a mutiny and punished me with a rather nasty dose of Tracheitis.

I'm currently bundled up in bed with a mug of hot Ribena (throat soother of champions) and strong antibiotics. I've actually been stuck in bed since last Tuesday with the monotony only broken by two doctors appointments and my mum turning up at my house, rolling me in a duvet, and driving me to hers to be fed chicken soup and worried about at a shorter distance. I must've looked (and sounded) pretty rough on Skype.

Anyway, that's enough of that - I thought this year instead of the usual style of Christmas card I'd go a slightly different direction and do a narrative based comic-card. Undoubtedly the many new graphic novel artists at uni this year are having an influence!

It's designed to be printed on both sides of an A4 sheet, slit in the middle, and folded so it creates a little book that can then be unfolded to see the poster inside.

This little piece is done with black and grey ink pens on paper and then photocopied on to some nice laid paper (I love that stuff). There was a run of 50 in total.

You might recognise it coz it's the same process I used for the 'Le Petomane' piece in my portfolio that Jonny Hannah taught us at Kingston Uni.

See you soon! Sooner than last time in any case ;)

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Merry Christmas!

Here's my final Christmas post and my final Christmas card design for this year!

This one was for the lovely people at the Deli Station and was sent out to their clients earlier this december.

Merry Christmas everyone!


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Christmas is back! And this time, it's personal.

My final card in the stained glass series this year. This one's my favourite: Hark the Herald Angels Swing. This is the piece that really made me enjoying painting again - it was so lovely to try different colour palettes than normal and get to apply it like this.

Only one more Christmassy post to go now... honest.

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Chrimbo cards: Part Deux!

Some more of my stained glass christmas cards! Getting rather excited now! More to come soon, as well as some other work...

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Christmas is coming!

As an avid fan of Christmas, I tend to do quite a lot of Christmas card designs. I'll be popping them up over the next few weeks ready for the big day!

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