New Book?

This cheeky chap will be in a book I am working on at the moment.

Birthday Bear and give away!

Personalised birthday card.

I thought I would bring out the pencils again and try something a little different.

On my facebook page I am doing a little give away, if you are intrested all you have to do is LIKE my page and either COMMENT or LIKE the relevent update on the wall. I will be randomly selecting winners on Sunday Eve.

Just click ---->here

Have a happy weekend!

It arrived!

The illustration I designed for a Baker Tom bag (a very nice bakery in Cornwall)

Its very exciting to see my design on a bag, its also a great size for my portfolio which is a bonus!

Cards for Sale

I have some Christmas cards for sale!

You can either buy them on etsy or for a bit cheaper on my facebook page directly through me.

Some of you may already know, but I jumped on the twitter band wagon, so if you fancy seeing what I'm getting up to feel free to follow me.

I hope you all have a great week.

Tasty Treat!

Do you fancy some tasty treats combined with some great art work?

Well look no further, you can buy a copy of this fab book at amazon.

Brilliant inspiration for cooking and drawing, what could be better?

To take a look at the book and order you copy just click here --> YUM

A couple of sketches

A couple of little illustrations I did last week to keep me busy.

In other news my bag design was featured on Leap Media for Baker toms.

I have been very busy with DK work and the new children's book I have been working on. Hopefully I can show you some images soon. I still haven't manged to work out why no body can leave comments, and why I can't leave any for you.

I hope you had a lovely weekend.

Christmas Cards

I finaly got my cards printed! I bought a great card rack from ebay, I'm very excited to start selling them!

Celebration

Recently my good friends Faye and John got engaged, and I am very excited and happy to be one of the many bridesmaids in July. I wanted to give them something that they could keep, so I made this. They type and the little heart are hand embroidered and the leaf pattern was created with my sewing machine. Its not perfect, but you can tell its handmade, lets say it adds to the charm.

I have made a promise to myself, when I get to 80 followers, only 11 people away, I will give away some goodies so keep your eyes peeled and if you think any of your friends would like my work and this blog send them this way, everyone is welcome!

I also wanted to say thank you to you all. I am very greatful that you have chosen to follow my work and blog, it means alot. So would you all like to come round for tea and cake?

I make things too

A ring I made for my good friends birthday last week. I created the top of the ring by hand sewing beads onto felt. I'm happy with the out come, and I didn't really want to give it away, but she liked it so it made it all worth while. Have a lovely weekend :)

Comments

It seems that people are having trouble leaving comments on my blog, and I can't leave comments on other blogs (which is highly frustrating!) If you are have problems on my blog or others it would be great if you could let me know on my facebook page. Thanks

A short walk in Black and White

A few image I took today when I went out for a little stroll. I am very lucky to live by the beautiful south coast. I hope you all had a great weekend :)

Have a chipper day

Some sketches of birds! I will soon be colouring up the birds and text to make into cards, patterens and textiles, all coming soon! I hope you are all well and you have a chipper weekend.

falalalalalalalala

Hello lovelies. I was wondering if you could let me know which cards you like as I am hoping to sell some cards soon, and maybe I will give away a free pack sometime next week! Two things will be changing, the background colour of We three kings and the text on the card with the raindeer and baubles.

It would be great to get your feedback, thanks :D

Tigerprint Comp

These were my entrys for the Tigerprint floral comp. The image of the poppys made me a runner up and a recived a great book about toy camera. Just picking some out now for chirstmas prezzies!

Christmas Cards

A couple of Christmas cards I have been working on. I also have some news, I am working on a children's book, but I can't really tell you about it; I'm also doing some work with DK, but I also can't really tell you about that either..........ok so maybe not news I can tell you all! But some news I can actually tell you, I'm a runner up for the Tigerprint floral phototography comp yay! I'll post my entrys soon.

I hope you are all enjoying the summer that has decided to grace us with its presence.

HELP

When I try to leave comments it wont let me, does anyone know what I can do?

I have been hat wearing

Sorry I haven't posted in a while, I have been away. I went to Falmouth, Cornwall for my graduation (above). Seeing everybody again was great, it just made me relise how much I actually missed everyone. I'm finding it quite hard to keep working the past couple of weeks, but I am going to push through this drawing block and come out the other side with lots of colourful new illustrations (Hopefully!)

On a better note, I have a new laptop YAY, so it wont take me 20mins to upload anything now! I am also starting to make some things for my etsy shop (I know I say that every time! But I just want to make sure I sell things I am really happy with.) I also won the Baker Tom's Comp, so my design will be on tote bags across Cornwall. Click here to see the winning design.

I hope you have all been having a lovely few weeks, and who knows I might be doing a give away soon!

So who are the people in the photos? Click on the names so see their work: Gemma(I can't seem to find Gemma, but soon as I do I will make a link), Lucy, Sarah, Philly, Laurie, Annaliese and Lisa

The jam in jars

A final colour from my other childrens book, "So I Could be a..."

Click on the image for a bigger version.

Hever Castle

As I mentioned in an earlier blog I went to Hever Castle with a couple of friends. These are a few sketches from the painting dotted around the walls of the castle.

I was also inspired to create some historic characters after meeting Emma Carisle, she has a lovely style so go an check her out.

Harry the robin makes a come back!

Hello all!
I was wondering if you could help me. I am having a little trouble with the background of this image, the trees, and maybe the white space (but I think I might leave it white).
I was wondering if you could please tell me if you think the trees in this image link with the whole picture, or are they too distracting. I did try to have a solid colour but that really didn't work.
Any suggestions would be much appreciated. :)

Kiddywinkles

A few sketchs put to colour. I'm trying to work on my younger characters, next I will try to sketch a group of children together, which for some reason I haven't really done yet. I hope you all enjoyed the bank holiday weekend. I went to Hever Castle for the first time and its truly beautiful, if you ever get the chance to take a look around the gardens I would highly recomend it :)