Flour pot

My eyes nearly popped out when I saw this delicious bakery packaging for The Flour Pot Bakery. They are just the best.

Found Via Twig & Thistle.

Rubber stamping

So I've made some stamps for all your guys to use! They are in my Folksy shop right now so you can get stamping. They might be good for making some christmas tags, just add some glitter!

All that glitters

Ok so i'm a bit late doing my all that glitters, and I did forgot to do "glued & glittered" this week, and I know i've only just started these regular blogs, but I hope that next week i'll be right on top of it.

So here is my "all that glitters". I bought Elle decoration magazine yesterday and I was really delighted when I saw a page of all illustrated items. This made me feel confident about my work as I had a not so good craft fair on Friday and was beginning to think my items weren't very salable. However I am really pleased to see people like illustrations and are willing to spare a few spaces in their homes for some drawn love. I loved this page from Elle  magazine, looks fun and exciting and I have come across some of the designers before. I am currently in the motions of getting some homeware items into my shops, like tea towels, cups and mugs and tote bags are currently being printed with my cake stand, bird cage and luxury cupcake drawings on then. I think they are going to look super but i'm scared i'll want them all to myself. 

Inspired by this Elle page I have put a page together will all my black and white illustrations on.

P.S. The giveaway going on at Tea for Joy's blog has bought some fantastic comments with creative ideas on what they'd do with my buttons if they had some. Some of the ideas have been putting them on their camera bag, jazzing up some cardigan sleeves and my favourite putting them on a plain pair of ballet pumps. As my buttons have been flying off that shelves I am wondering what you guys have been doing with them all and would like you to send me some pictures so I can post them on my blog and my website to give others some ideas. Thankyou!

stuff and things

Last night I was working on some illustrations which I think I will put in artwork so I can sell them as some prints. I think I will start off with some A5 prints and see how they go. I only have one image of the first of a set of illustrations as me and my scanner have a bad friendship and all the others didn't turn out well. 

I have also been making some magnets, for all those people who might like my illustrations but don't do necklaces. I really like these magnets. I made them from fairly thin sheets of magnetic "paper" yes, paper, that's what it's called and then I printed on them and glossed them just like my jewellery. They're pretty darn flexible too so can be put in all sorts of places not just your fridge. I hope everyone likes them.

Custom

I want to blog about my owl swap which i'm just finishing and my button swap which I sent off today, but I don't want to reveal anything as news travels fast and before you know it the surprise will be over!

I was really pleased with my buttons, i have my photos ready an waiting to post on here when my partner has received them. It made me think about making more buttons in the future as I guess you could use them for almost anything, card, jewellery, clothes, toys. That got me thinking about other things in general that I could make from my illustrations, like magnets and decorations. I'm not really sure if these sell, but some people could let me know what they think anyway!

Back to my jewellery, I custom made this a few days ago for a friends mum's birthday. She has a decorating shop called Colourworld and I made this little brooch for her. I love it, it's so geeky. She loves pinks and purples and so this was a great opportunity to colour the paint pink and have a sparkly purple jewel. I hope she likes it, but her birthday isn't until march so we won't find out yet.

Just to let you know too I've relisted a tea set necklace on Etsy as my first one went pretty quickly.

Busy busy

I have been busy finishing off some of my new illustration jewellery. My tea set necklace and chandelier earrings proved popular so I thought of some new ideas in which I could use 2 or three charms together to create a kitsch theme. So far I have done a valentines "love letter" necklace, which features an envelope, a love letter and a pen and a robot with some nuts and bolts, but my favourite has to be the vintage telephone with it's very own receiver and "hello" speech bubble. I might have to make myself one! 

I will be listing these on my website and etsy later.

A belated congratulations is in need also, to Alice who won my bow necklace give away! Commiseration's  to everyone on my mailing list who didn't win, but there will a chance next time as I plan to do more giveaways in the future!

Anyway I really should go an start these logos I am ment to be doing for my dad and a music producer. I just can't help myself getting carried away with finishing off my new jewellery ideas! I still have many ideas floating around my head just waiting to be put to paper.

And lastly, please visit our crafteroo comic relief shop on Folksy. Members from the crafteroo forum have kindly donated some pieces for the shop and all proceeds from the sales will go to comic relief so make sure you take a look so you can do your bit! Thank you.

I'm beavering away making new illustrations today. I'm obviously on a role at the moment with all my wrapping paper. I thought I would make some friendly additions to the fox I created yesterday. He is new one...I have made two others as well but my scanner has a creative mind of it's own and so this is a sneak preview (literally) of another character..





I also made this one...This has to be my favourite of all the pieces I have made. As before these images are solely created from paper, my new ikea wrapping paper features the most. It's just so versatile. I hope to make more today, although I'm getting a head ache and my good ideas are running low!