Whimsical Wonders

When I was at uni I created a project 'Whimsical Wonders' for stationery.  I did a post back in June 'Re-vamp' when I was updating the layout etc of my blog and popped a few images of the project in progress.  Me being the dingbat I am sometimes never posted any finished images for you....oops! So here you go......

The imagery was all hand screen printed onto watercolour paper and then hand stitched into using linen threads.  Visuals were then created using Photoshop and I was extremely happy with both the original artwork and the visuals.  I had a lot of fun with this project and I hope that comes through :)

Busy, busy!

Good morning :) Hope everyone has got good plans for the day, I am up extra early than normal as a busy day ahead!! Thought I would start the day productive and show you some designs and drawings I have been working on lately (some are bits of work from uni which I have then been changing slightly).  I am still tweaking things too so they may change in the next few days!!  Hope you like them and feel free to leave any feedback, it is much appreciated!!

Creative Nails!

I am currently loving all the new ideas going around for creating catwalk nails! When the 'magnetic' varnish came out I jumped on it after seeing it in Vogue and love all the creativity going around for nails, so inspiring for when you've got somewhere special to go! I have had a go at some different styles but not so successful at times!  Below are my current favourite styles-

1- Rebecca Adlington's olympic nails

2- Black tipped manicure-Vogue

3. Caviar manicure (my fave!)-Ciate

4- Colourful Cotton Candy- Miss Adelinne

What's your favourite and have you tried any creative nails? Have a good afternoon! :)

A Great British Summer!

As I said previously I decided to enter a few design ideas to the Hallmark competition.  I decided to go with one idea thinking about the oh-so-british sporting event of Wimbledon (everybody loves wimbledon and strawberries and cream in summer don't they!?) and then also looking at camping and the iconic VW camper van for another british summer idea
Below are what i entered and a few drawings that got me started :)

Recent work!

Hi there! I have recently been working on some designs for competitions etc so will post some images up of them shortly and other recent goings-on!

One of them was a competition for Hallmark that I came across on their blog so decided to give it a go.

This was the brief based around A Great British Summer,  very fitting for all of our success with Team GB!!  I decided to go for something a little out of my comfort zone but will post some images tomorrow :)

July Highlights!

Hi, apologies for the long delay in any posts! I have been slightly busy this month with graduation, work/interviews and also buying a new pc (which I have finally set up!! :)). So with the delay I thought I'd share some highlights from the last month!

Enjoying cosmo's with my lovely friends a bit too much! :P

Out and about getting some inspiration

My new mac :) :)

Best Ice-cream ever!!

At last of all my graduation where I officially graduated with a 2:1 BA (Hons) Textile Surfaces!

Busy Bee!

Sorry for the delay in any posts these last 2 weeks or so, been an extremely busy bee with some exciting things! I have just come back from New Designers in Islington where I had a fab week so some pics will go up very soon of what I got up too there.  In the meantime, take care!