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Creative Inspiration: A book review

Month: July 2020

Creative Inspiration: A book review

27 July 2020 by Lou
The Joy of Watercolor - Emma Block

Everyone needs a bit of creative inspiration now and then, and I’m no different. I think it’s important to keep learning and stay creative, and books are my favourite way of doing this. Fiction teaches me more about other people by putting me in someone else’s shoes for a while. And non-fiction teaches me more … [Read more…]

Posted in: Creative stuff Tagged: creative inspiration, creativity, gift ideas, illustrations, learning, painting, practice, watercolour

Designing Greeting Cards Digitally

21 July 2020 by Lou
Designing Greeting Cards - my custom cartoon portrait process

A while ago I described how I create custom cartoon portraits when designing greeting cards to order. My drawing process has changed a bit since then though, so I thought I’d do an update. I designed the cartoon portrait below for a graduation card using my new process so I’ve used it as an example. … [Read more…]

Posted in: Behind the Scenes, Creative stuff Tagged: drawing, Greeting Cards, illustrations, learning, pencil, practice, stick figures

Where to find great gifts

13 July 2020 by Lou
Finding great gifts

We all want to find great gifts to show our friends and family that we really do know and love them! But with birthdays and Christmas coming around every year it’s easy to run out of inspiration… And of course if you’re anything like me you need ideas NOW because you’ve not planned very far … [Read more…]

Posted in: Gift Giving Tips Tagged: birthday, Etsy, gift ideas, gifts

New Sportsy Greeting Card Collection

7 July 2020 by Lou
Sportsy Greeting Card Collection - Yoga birthday card

I’m very excited to announce the launch of my new Sportsy Greeting Card Collection! I’ve been working on these for a while now and really wanted to do a collection centred around activities and sports that was fun and not too serious. I think the name ‘Sportsy’ reflects this too 🙂 I have a lot … [Read more…]

Posted in: Behind the Scenes, News Tagged: anniversary cards, birthday cards, congratulations cards, good luck cards, greeting card collection, Greeting Cards, sportsy
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