Hi guys, I’m just dashing off a quick note to let you know that I’ve made all my flickr images private due to a delicious stalker incident! I’m quite pinged off about it all, considering that I’m the one who has to go in to hiding. However, don’t worry for me – things are being sorted out by the appropriate authorities and everything will be just ducky soon enough!
The above image is brought to you by ffffound! It’s a letterpressed poster by Douglas Wilson and is available from the Keep Calm Gallery.
If you like this pattern (and I hope you do!) you can vote for it on Naked & Angry.
I made this for Nick. <3
I've been thinking about the wedding guestbook (thanks to Polka Dot Bride!) and I came across this tutorial on how to make a soft cover wrap around notebook. I’m thinking of adapting it for our guestbook, with a nice plush velvet padded cover! It’d be something really beautiful to keep, and the wrap around cover has an added bonus of protecting the pages from the elements so they don’t end up all dog eared.
I was lucky enough to receive a ffffound.com invite from a fellow designer on RedBubble! YAY!
This is the sweetest thing I’ve seen for a while, and I thought I’d pass the sweetness on.
The wedding is consuming me! It is one of the most amazing experiences of consumption, art direction, typography and event planning I’ve ever been involved in though. The invites are in the final stages of completion, and I will post photographs of the results when I am done.
This shows the covering C6 trifold card and some of the insides that I’ve so artfully buggered up by misregistering the paper on my corner punch.
So, over the last few weeks I’ve bought quite a few things online. Mostly due to having money in my PayPal account (yay freelance illustrating!) and having to buy general wedding pretties. I want to show you the lovely things I’ve purchased!
I posted about Delia’s inspirational jewellery last month, and this month I decided to buy the stackable rings. I can’t wait to get them! Visit Delia’s etsy store.
Braidy does these insanely gorgeous watercolours with divinely inspired colour schemes. I bought these, and the pieces below, from RedBubble as cards. They’re great quality, I didn’t think the colours would be so rich but they really impressed me!
“Modern Woman” by dendoo and “Corset” by Michelle Giacobello.
I’ve also been in touch with the really awesomely kind person who volunteered to try and get me a copy of “The Emerging Portfolio of Marian Bantjes on Sundance“, and after months and months of trying to talk to Fox River Papers they’ve managed to snag me a copy and they’re now sending one to me! I tell you, it’s really hard to try and get limited edition stuff like this out here. When I get my copy I will take photos – Marian is one of my super duper heroes and she should be one of yours too!
I bought some 30cm wide white lanterns for our wedding in April. Now I have to find either egg shaped lanterns or 20cm wide ones just to mix it up a bit.
In other wedding related purchases, I have bought materials for our invitations and also for fascinators that I’m making for myself and my bridesmaids. I am DIYing quite a bit for the event. Call me crazy, call me a control freak – but at the end of the day our bank balance will thank us!!
I am using my Print Gocco to print our monogram (left) in gold. I’ve been punching up a storm and severely harming whatever healing that has occurred in my injured wrists!!! Scrapbooking punches were not created to punch 200gsm paper. I found a fabulous site called feathersonline.com.au and I’ve bought almost everything for our fascinators including the beautiful feathers below. If you’re in Australia and you’re after feathers or millinery supplies, I highly recommend these guys just on price alone! I also bought some baubles and flowers at Spotlight today.
The goose stripped nagoire feathers are for the bridesmaids and the badger feathers are for me!
I’m pretty lucky to have a Stitch n Bitch group in my city which consists of awesome people who know about lots of different things. I’ll definitely be calling on their wisdom for the fascinators in particular – I will be sure to post pictures of my DIY efforts when they are all completed (and maybe some tutorials)!
I am really super duper stupid busy right now with freelance, commissions, wedding planning etc. I thought I’d be nice and post some vintage ephemera for you all to enjoy!
My mum has an awesome collection of all the cards she has ever been given. From her birth til now – including her 21st birthday cards and wedding and engagement cards. She got them all out for me yesterday and I snapped some pictures with my phone camera. I grew up being influenced by illustrations like these!!! I just wanted to be able to share these pretty cards with everyone, because I’ve always loved them.
This is one of the most special things in there. It’s a card, hand screen printed, by one of mum and dad’s friends Sieg.
He also made this mulberry paper himself! It was used to wrap their engagement present. I nearly wet my pants when I saw it yesterday, it’s in such nice condition!
Unfortunately, mum has stuck all these cards in the scrap book, which means they aren’t in mint condition, which is sad :(
If you want to see more, head on over to the set on flickr.
I am drawing so much I think I’m going to wear my arms out. I’m a bit chuffed because “Things you should never say #1″ was picked to go on the feature page on Red Bubble. I swear that little community is inflating my ego.
Apparently some people are having trouble commenting. I’m so sorry!! Can I ask a huge favour? Can I get all 3 of you reading my blog to try and comment on this post? Cheers!
So, I’ve joined another print on demand site called redbubble.com. After joining imagekind the other week, I’ve been sniffing around other services to see if I can go one better…. and I have!!
Red Bubble is an amazing community of artists, writers and photographers and offers t-shirts, laminated prints, cards, posters, mounted prints, canvas prints and framed prints. While you can’t customise the matt board and frame to the same extent as on imagekind.com, you can buy a wider variety of products – including t-shirts. So instead of going through all the hassle of rating and waiting on threadless, you simply create and upload your design and BAM, it’s available! I also love that you can buy cards – buying art in a smaller format is wonderful for me, because I have an “inspiration wall” at home that is aching to be filled up with yummy eye candy.
And – the most awesome thing? Red Bubble is Australian and based in Melbourne. That rocks! I’ve been really disappointed in the lack of fabulous Australian sites. The great thing is that there are lots of artists around the globe involved in this community. They print in both Australia and America, and I’ve heard that a UK office is just starting up too.
Over the next few weeks I’m going to scope out the best of Red Bubble and post it all here for your enjoyment. Of course, don’t forget that I’m selling my own illustrations there too!
Bernard Maisner‘s calligraphy is beautiful and sumptuous, I think this style of hand lettering is the direction I’m going to take our wedding stationery in, however, I’m going to give it my own twist. Thanks, Lost at E Minor, for exposing me to Maisner’s work!
Well, I’ve had it for a few months but it was missing a power cable and USB cord. I’ve felt a little lost without a scanner, and now I can scan in my doodles and colour them. As if I don’t have enough arty/ crafty endeavours already!
I’ve also put some of my illustrations up for sale on imagekind.com. Check them out – you can buy a simple print, or you can create a custom frame/ mat combination, or even order a canvas print! The prices are really reasonable too, and of course they give me a decent cut of the profits too, which is nice!
As well as these illustrations, I’ve also completed a few more paintings, three of which will go up in a cafe for sale. I’ll post pictures once I’ve delivered and installed them!
In other news, I’m having a huge problem with spam trackbacks at the moment. I can’t seem to disable trackbacks fully or find some verification tool that only allows genuine trackbacks. Please help, blogland!
If I can’t have a ffffound account, well I’m just going to dump images I like here! Hope you enjoy as much as I did – I think I’m a freak, I totally pour over images I find!
This is one of the posters that LA Pop Art create – they’ve used the first four chapters of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland to illustrate this scene. Awesome.
I found this in a vintage picture community – my eye was drawn to the detailing on the tablecloth immediately.
Patterns from the spines of Penguin books (via ffffound via The Serif)
Delicious Wood type notecards from Cary Graphic Arts Press – $7 for 8 cards, bargain! (via ffffound)
I love that ffffound can connect me to sites I’d never think to look at. This beautiful example of leaf script is from a page that teaches you the technique! Visit Sam Alfano’s Tips & Tricks for Hand Engravers for a LOT more.
another monster head found in a circle trap by Mindy Shapero (via ffffound)
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