Scrapbook (Page 39)

It has been an aim of mine for a while to keep a sketchbook, I'm always drawing/doodling and getting ideas on paper for both my freelance work and my own personal work. Bought myself a new book yester…

I came across some really lovely pinners recently. Yeline Rico has an extensive collection of boards all of which are really muted and such a sophisticated selection of imagery, a definite one to foll…

Whilst working today I was still getting distracted by experimenting with some of the elements of my competition entry, these could work as little stickers or stamps...?? now need to find another comp…

A while ago I bought myself a packet of fabric trimmings from Umbrella trimmings for their annual competition. I have seen entries over the years and have always admired the fabrics and prints so thou…

Had such a productive spell with my work, great to get really involved in my design work and working under pressure normally helps. This month is flying by so many things on the go but love being busy…

Love that at this time of the year all design studios/designers release their Surtex flyers. So many nice examples, great mix of typography and images, I have a whole board dedicated to show flyers on…

Sometimes my scanner has a mind of its own and decides to make me wait, so whilst it was doing its thing I did this ...

Busy with lots of things at the moment, trying to give as much as I can to my freelance work. Have a pile of things on my desk to finish - did squeeze in a bit of time t0 create these though, enjoy ju…

Another bank holiday weekend here so we went away for a short break - the weather wasn't that summery but still nice to be away and by the sea. I did a simple page of text and line sketches which I ha…

I try to always have a sketchbook or at least a stack of paper so I can always be getting ideas on paper even if it is just a handful of line sketches - quite often these can turn into an idea. Workin…

Visited the Little Great Northern contemporary Craft Fair today, I have been to these smaller events before and they are always really inspiring. They are smaller spin off events from the main event w…

Time at the moment is just flying by, and annoyingly the one thing that is suffering is my work. Has just been easter so children around for 2 weeks - hardly get anything productive done, busy at work…

Had a lovely bank holiday weekend in Wales - lots of sun and trips to the beach! Took some photos along the way and collected some lovely wild flowers stems which I hope to use for some ideas.

A new batch of my purses are finished - can't take the credit for the making of them my mum has done all the hard work, I just do the decorative bit!

Just a small illustration, folk inspired, really like symmetrical designs - I have used the bird from my lino prints, would like to do more of these..

Mixed together some of the patterns and illustrations that have featured on here so far and came up with this - inspired by the illustration from my sketches I posted earlier ...

I'm often inspired by techniques I teach at work, one of which I've always been fond of is Lino printing. I remember first Lino printing during my art foundation course years ago, had a bit of a go th…

It seems a reoccurring theme is emerging, had a number of ideas relating to some sketches I did of birds. Also had a mention on a few blogs over the last few days - nice to get some comments about my…

Managed to get some things on the way to be made, cut out lots in the last few days and got some things ready to put together - here is where my mum comes in, she is the one who does all the complicat…