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Scrapbook (Page 30)
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Spring chickens
An extra hour of daylight today couldn't come soon enough! A pair of spring chickens to be seasonal x
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Birds
I made myself lots of papers this week, hand painted patterns and some colour washed backgrounds, then used them to do these...
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Instagram ideas
I find instagram - (see link to my page on the right) - a great place to share quick ideas. As my time is generally restricted i find it a good place to show snapshots of my sketchbook, mainly my coll…
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Spring
I'm not sure when the official start of spring is but its round a bout now i think! The start of spring inspired this embroidered illustration x
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Paper
I noticed a big increase in views this weeks thanks to a feature on Illustration Friday, which is a lovely blog which showcases lots of great Illustrators, so really nice to have my work on there. The…
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More pattern
I grabbed a bit of time to do some more pattern based ideas with some of the flower stems from yesterday - this time some linear stems in rows x
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More flowers
So I continued to experiment with all the flowers and pot plants of recent weeks, think these could make good ideas for cards x
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Sunday floral
It seems apt for flowers to feature on Mothers Day, so here is a pattern from some simple collage paper flower stems x
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Abc
Where did this week go? I seemed to of lost a week in amongst, school, children, work etc... Found a bit of time tonight to experiment with an alphabet idea that was suggested to me, I have lots of va…
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Hello march
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Colour
I love muted colours and don't often get chance to use them. I worked on altering the colours in this collage and created a simple repeat with subtle changes in colours. I remember during my degree do…