The Little White Book

Banner Design by Gill Eggleston

A few months back Gill Eggleston, a fellow graduate from the The Art and Business of Surface Pattern  course had a great idea to start an online directory of designers. The Little White Book features over 80 designers so far worldwide. And I'm very pleased to be included on page 61!

Massive thanks to Gill for all her hard work and dedication putting this together. 

Bloghop!

I'm taking part in my first bloghop next week with 50+ surface pattern designers worldwide. I've never done a bloghop before, I'm quite new to this really. But I'm really excited. We are each coming up with a mini collection based on the theme Let's Fly and using the Pantone colour of 2013, Emerald Green. Please come back to check in next week. The bloghop will start at Pattern Addict.

#adventdoodle final calendars

I was amazed by the success of Advent Doodle in it's very first year! And seeing all the different responses to each days doodle challenge was inspiring. So as we come to an end of the holiday season I thought I would get in there quick with an #adventdoodle round up. Here's some fabulous calendars from illustrators, designers and non-artists who took part and totally embraced the challenge.

I'd also like to thank everyone who took part whether it was just one doodle or all 25, you all made the run up to christmas a lot of fun and I hope you enjoyed taking part as much as I enjoyed checking in on all the doodling.

Beautiful and magical illustrations from Eva Marion Seyffarth

Great creative doodling from Anja Rabius

Some eclectic and comedic responses from Stephan @S_2K

Fantastic collection from Maria Jose Bautista V (MaJoBV). I particularly love the Three Kings and Santa!

Some gorgeous detailed illustrations from the very talented Kate Cornish

Fabulous doodles and hand lettering from Linsey Sinclair @lovelfs

Chloe Wood managed to keep all her super cute doodles within the small template... not easy! 

Some colourful and fun doodles from Susan McCellan @speedqueenie

A great set and style of doodles from Maike Thoma at Patternjots

Sally Garner from Sarah Paris Style has a fabulous doodling style. I really enjoyed checking into twitter to see her daily doodles. 

The next 3 calendars come from Jen Whitham of JLW Illustation and her family. I love that she got her children involved who are now missing their daily doodle. 

Wonderful doodling from Alexander aged 5

Colourful with lots of character from Carla aged 8. I really love her Santa's Elf day 15. 

Mummy's gorgeous graphic doodles!

So... it's over... christmas, partying and #adventdoodle but we will be back next year! 

I plan to make a printable calendar for this December comprising of doodles from 2012. If you would like yours included please mail me 1-3 of your favourites doodles. If you took part and I haven't already got your details please do email me any of your doodles! I can also add any completed (or semi completed) calendars to this post.

My favourite christmas cards

I love giving and receiving real christmas cards... even though it's not particularly green and postage costs are verging on ridiculous, it's lovely receiving cards in the post. This year I'd like to share with you some of my favourites that came through the letterbox.

(above) Gorgeous paper cut card from John Lewis

Cute small typographic card from John Lewis

Marks and Spencer for The Woodland Trust - clean and graphic wintery card

On trend Fairisle knit inspired card from Next

After a great celebratory year for Britain these soldiers are perfect for christmas from Next

Bright and colourful from Paperchase for Nordoff Robbins

Another beauty from Paperchase

Beautiful Snow Angel by Paper House

Charming reindeer illustration by Clare Tupper for Paper Rose

Bright graphic christmas trees from Katy Clemmans

Lovely collage effect christmas trees from Waitrose

A great christmas scene from my friends little girl Poppy (age 7)

I'm a sucker for christmas jumpers so loved this card from Idealogy

Of course my absolute favourite card was from my 16 month son who came home from nursery with this card for Mummy and Daddy! 

So that's it - the christmas season is almost over. Hope you all had a wonderful time and wishing you all a great 2013!

Spotted! Print and Pattern blog - holiday round up

I had a new year resolution to get my work featured on the Print Pattern blog. Shortly before christmas I thought I would try my luck and submit some of my christmas card designs, thinking I'd probably left it a bit too late. So, I was chuffed to bits when my cards were featured in the holiday round up feature. You can see the full feature and some lovely designs from many others including Worthy Design Studio, Lizzie Mckay and Victoria Johnson here. 

So... I need a new, new year resolution!

It's Christmas!

Ho ho ho! don't forget to leave Santa a cookie and Rudolph a carrot. 

Have a great one xx

#Adventdoodle part 2

I'm behind on my own challenge!! luckily you guys have been doodling away. Can't believe we've only got 6 more days to go. I know I've got a busy time coming up so don't worry if you get behind - you can always catch up after christmas!

Here's some doodlings from day 10-19...

Dec 10th - christmas present

Confession to make, I can't go back far enough on twitter to see all your day 10's so here's my effort!

 Day 11 - stars

I love these happy stars by Eva Marion Seyffarth. See more on her blog.

Day 12 - The Three Kings

There were so many fabulous kings they got their own blog post here. This one above is from Sandra Murta

Day 13 - A Pear Tree

Gorgeous pear tree by Kate Cornish

Day 14 - a reindeer

Simply wonderful Rudolph by @speedqueenie

Day 15 - Santa's elf

Happy little fella by Faye Webb

Day 16 - Christmas spirit

Another lovely drawing from Eva

 Day 17 - A Christmas Carol

Silent night by Anja Rabius

 Day 18 - Santa's sack

I hope Santa leaves me a sack like this! by Sally at Sarah Paris Style. Visit her blog to see all her lovely doodles here. 

 Day 19 - a bauble

Sketchy bauble by Anne @miss_at

Days 1-17

Great to see how Jen has worked within the tiny template. Follow the family's doodles here from Alex aged 5 and Carla aged 8. Super cute!

It's still better than chocolate!! In between christmas and new year I'd love to do a post showing everyone's full calendar. If you can email me your complete calendar either using the original template or as one file (29.7x21cm at 72dpi) I'll be sure to post them.