Lino printing bags at Furniture Magpie

Sam suggested that we customise her Furniture Magpie bags and I thought I'd give it a try.. The brief was using he words 'I'm a Magpie' and a retro typewriter font. Here is what happened!

The final bags..

Making a mess in the corner!

An alternate idea using the logo..
  
Playing with different fonts..

Card making at Furniture Magpie

So I've just started working part time as an assistant to lovely Sam Baines at Furniture Magpie in Barnstaple! Check out the shop's Facebook page here. Here are just a few of the things I've been getting up to..

 A hand painted nautical patterned card above and below, Sam's lovely local handmade card stand..

 Handpainted floral cards on sale now!

Gordon and his new eiderdown

Appliqué Babygros for little Thomas

So excited to announce my new baby Nephew Thomas Andrew Collingridge, he's such a cutie! 

Here's what I've been making for him. An easy project of an evening, all you need is some basic babygros, some fabric scraps, coloured thread and a few spare hours. I drew out the designs then ironed them onto the front of the baby grows using interfacing for extra durability. Then I set about appliquéing the designs on top using a basic blanket stitch..

Here's an easy diagram if you needed some stitching help found on the Clones and Clowns blog!

Yours truly and little Thomas aged 10 days!

Deadly Nightshade Games illustrations

So excited to announce that my illustrations are now live on the new website for downloadable
murder mystery games Deadly Nightshade Games.

 A friend of mine put me in touch with the talented writer Jessica Andrews, and here is the story of the commissioned illustrations and patterns I made for her packaging. We started with some character development and these were the works in progress drawings..

                       

 These developed into some finished line drawings and the final developed website with Character outlines..

Finally I designed a few patterns for the backgrounds of the clues, drawn with ink in a gothic style..

Find J on Facebook and her fabulous blog Red Sequin: The ADC of Murder.

For those pinteresters - find her here!

Spring at Rosemoor

Such a lovely weekend to make a trip to RHS Rosemoor. Feel totally inspired with all the beautiful bright spring blooms!