New Baby Designs

Today I am sharing with you some designs I created recently for the Hallmark New Baby contest. The brief was to create a design suitable for a New Baby range covering a variety of products such as; greetings cards, gifts bags, gift wrap and stationery.

I created designs using a gender neutral colour palette and sweet patterned elephants. 

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A-Z Flowers - B is for..

I was inspired by the beautiful blankets of seasonal flowers around right now.. so here it is..

B is for Bluebells..

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Wednesday Words

Today's Wednesday Words.. again using this week's Colour of the Week: Bittersweet, palettes.

I have found having a positive mental attitude is the best way to live a happy life!

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New Work - Limelight

I've been very busy working on new work lately, one of my latest projects has been to design a logo, T-shirt design and poster for Vanessa Golborn School of Dance's summer show.

The logo had to work in single colour so it could be used on show stationery and screen printed onto T-shirts for students and helpers.

I also designed a black & white flyer and colour poster to advertise the event.. if you are local and like dance I highly recommend the event, the students are very talented and work so hard on their bi-annual summer show.

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Colour of the Week: Bittersweet

Colour of the Week time!

This week.. Bittersweet, a very summery orange, it makes me think of fruity cocktails and juicy melon!

Below are some colour palettes featuring Bittersweet, I hope they inspire you!

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Limited Edition Kleenex Box Design Contest

Today I'm sharing with you my design for the Kleenex box design contest. Kleenex teamed up with design expert Kelly Hoppen MBE and invited artists and designers to create fashionable, unique and innovative box designs for the chance to see them on-shelf as one of three boxes available to buy in the Autumn/Winter design refresh.

Kelly Hoppen shared key interior trends for the season and I focused my design around royal purples, reds and oranges with an on-trend IKAT design. (seen below)

Now I need your help, if you like my design PLEASE vote for it! I would love to see my design on-shelf! You can vote here. Thank you in advance!

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Wednesday Words

Wow, can't believe it's May already. This Friday it's been a whole year since I finished University and I can't quite believe it! It's flown by but I can't believe how far I've come and how much has happened in the past year!

I'm so grateful to be able to do what I love everyday so I hope today's Wednesday Words piece inspires you to do what you love too! With some nice spring summer colours and flowers on this beautiful sunny May day!

The colours used in this piece are from this week's Colour of the Week: Liberty palettes which can be found here!

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A-Z Flowers - A is for..

I FINALLY started on A-Z of Flowers!

A is for Agapanthus!

And because I can't just create one design.. here's some more of the collection! I still feel like I haven't finished to you might see more pieces from this collection popping up soon!

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Colour of the Week: Liberty

A very personal Colour of the Week this week.. My Nanna sadly passed away yesterday and this colour always reminds me of her, so Nanna, this ones for you xoxox

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Sneak Peek - New Work

I've been a very busy bee lately and my creative juices have been flowing which has been fantastic! I have been creating lots of lovely new work for new licensing agreements, competitions and more!

Today I have another little sneak peek at some new work! I created these designs as possible new card designs with co-ordinating wrapping paper and would love to know what you think!

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Wednesday Words

It's Wednesday! Which means, Wednesday Words!

Today I share with you a new inspirational words piece I made especially for today's Wednesday Words. I saw the quote on Pinterest and I really related to it and know a lot of you will too.

This weeks Wednesday Words was again created using Colour of the Week: Dust Storm and this weeks Colour of the Week palettes, which you can see here.

New Collection - Garden Floral

Today I am sharing with you a sneak peek into a new collection - Garden Floral. You may recognise the first floral design as the pattern that filled the garden tools in my recent Spoonflower Garden Tools Contest entry. I created the design especially to fill the garden tools but loved it so much and saw potential in the motifs to create a whole collection. 

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Colour of the Week: Dust Storm

Happy Monday Everyone!

This week's Colour of the Week is Dust Storm, a gentle greyish pink. This colour really reminds me of spring, it's beautiful pink blossoms and how it's like a dust storm of gorgeousness when they blow off the trees!

Below are some inspirational colour palettes I have put together featuring Dust Storm, I hope they inspire you!

If you make something inspired by Colour of the Week posts or palettes, please do share! We'd love to see what you create!

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Notebook Cover Proofs

Yesterday I received the proofs of the covers of my notebooks. It was a very very exciting moment as so much work has gone into this project and it means we're one step closer to seeing the final notebooks!

Below are a few sneaky pictures of the proofs, sorry they are not of great quality, they are just quick snaps taken on my phone! The print quality is fantastic, the colours have come out perfectly. I can't wait to see the final notebooks and share them with you all!

The notebooks will be finding their way to their new owners and fabulous backers of my Kickstarter project in the next few weeks and will be for sale in my Etsy store shortly after! If you interested in pre-ordering some notebooks please get in touch!

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Tulips

I don't know about you, but I absolutely adore tulips. I also love having flowers in the house. This week I have a gorgeous bunch of purple tulips, and this morning they opened up and when I peeked inside I saw this beautiful blue colour inside! They are such stunning and inspiring colours I decided to share some pictures with you all..

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Wednesday Words

As promised last week I am now trying to make my own inspirational words pieces for Wednesdays. We all need a bit of motivation and inspiration, and words to help us achieve our dreams.. so Wednesday Words is here to help!

As much as I'd have loved to have drawn this myself, I actually used an awesome font called WildCrazy, you can download it here!

p.s if you like the colour palette used in this piece, its one of the palettes featuring in this week's Colour of the Week - Tea Rose post which you can find here!

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New Work - Sweet Daze

Recently I worked on a logo for a new bakery business - Sweet Daze.

The brief was to create something simple with a sweet contemporary feel. Below are the final 6 logos I designed, with a combination of different colours, text wraps and imagery. The logos are going to be used for advertising, packaging and decorating the homemade bakes, so I hope to share some images of the logos once they come to life!

I also made this illustration mocking up how small stickers would look decorating some of Sweet Daze's homemade bakes!

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Colour of the Week - Tea Rose

This week's Colour of the Week is Tea Rose. I saw some tulips in this colour last week and they were such a gorgeous bright spring pastel which will hopefully inspire some spring in everyone's lives this week!

Below are some palettes using Tea Rose, hope they inspire you!

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