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Shopping for Personalised Gifts on Etsy

9 November 2020 by Lou

Although we’re in lockdown during prime holiday shopping time this year, online marketplaces like Etsy make shopping for thoughtful personalised gifts easy. And 2020 is a year that we really do want to show our favourite people how terrific we think they are, so ordinary gifts are not going to cut it! While there are … [Read more…]

Posted in: Gift Giving Tips Tagged: anniversary, birthday, christmas, custom, custom portraits, Etsy, fathers day, gift ideas, gifts, mothers day, valentines day

Custom Illustration Prints as Gifts

2 November 2020 by Lou
Custom illustration prints - Eiffel Tower

As well as selling greeting cards and doing custom cartoon portrait cards, did you know I also do custom illustration prints that make great personalised gifts? You may already have seen some of the cartoon portrait prints I do, but enjoy doing other custom illustration too. I was approached recently by someone who had seen … [Read more…]

Posted in: Behind the Scenes, Creative stuff Tagged: anniversary, birthday, cartoon portraits, christmas, creativity, custom, custom portraits, drawing, fathers day, gift ideas, gift wrapping, illustrations, mothers day, Prints, valentines day

New Christmas Card and Seasonal Collection

5 October 2020 by Lou
snow joke Christmas Card

I’m very excited to let you know that my new Christmas card and seasonal greeting card collection for the holidays is now available in my shop. This collection is for those people who you want to give an extra special card to this Christmas or holiday. People like significant others, parents, best friends. The ones you … [Read more…]

Posted in: News Tagged: christmas, christmas cards, custom, custom portraits, Greeting Cards, holiday cards, illustrations, scotland, seasonal cards, snowman, stick figures

Easy Homemade Gift Ideas

28 September 2020 by Lou
edible homemade gift

Getting a homemade gift can be a lot more special than something that has been bought. You know that the person who gave it to you has definitely put some time, thought and effort into it. And even a shop bought present can be personalised with the addition of a DIY touch, like giving a … [Read more…]

Posted in: Creative stuff, Gift Giving Tips Tagged: anniversary, birthday, creativity, custom, fathers day, gift ideas, gifts, mothers day

My custom cartoon portrait process

27 May 2020 by Lou
Custom cartoon portrait process

I’ve been doing a lot of custom cartoon portrait orders for cards and prints over the last few years. People just seem to love seeing themselves and others in cartoon form! Read on to find out how I go about creating my stick figure portraits step by step… First steps When I get an order … [Read more…]

Posted in: Behind the Scenes, Creative stuff Tagged: cartoon portraits, creativity, custom, custom orders, drawing, Greeting Cards, illustrations, Prints, stick figures

Choosing a 60th birthday wishes card

19 May 2020 by Lou
Whiskey 60th birthday card

How do you choose a card to send 60th birthday wishes? 60 years old is an appreciable milestone, so you don’t want to give just any old card. I always think that if you’re going to go to the trouble of giving a card then it might as well be a great one! Of course … [Read more…]

Posted in: Gift Giving Tips Tagged: 60th birthday, alcohol, birthday, cartoon portrait, custom, custom card, illustrations, stick figures, whiskey card, wine card

Valentine cards with cartoon portraits

15 January 2020 by Lou
Couple Portrait Card

Valentine cards have always been intriguing to me. When I was a kid there was always that anticipation that someone might fancy me enough to secretly give me a card, mixed with the slight dread that I might be the only one who wouldn’t get a Valentine… both of which happened a few times in … [Read more…]

Posted in: Behind the Scenes Tagged: custom, drawing, Etsy, Greeting Cards, illustrations, stick figures, valentines day

Cartoon portrait Christmas cards and prints

13 November 2019 by Lou
Family portrait Christmas card

I added a whole lot of Christmas designs, including cartoon portrait Christmas cards, to my Etsy shop a while back, but have been holding back before sharing them with you on here. I really don’t like it when Christmas starts too soon (not because I don’t love Christmas – I do – but because it’s … [Read more…]

Posted in: Behind the Scenes, News Tagged: christmas, custom, Etsy, Greeting Cards, stick figures

Custom name children’s birthday cards

15 July 2019 by Lou
Children's Birthday Cards

I’ve recently added some children’s birthday cards to my range on Etsy. At the moment I have four different designs each for 1st birthday, 2nd birthday and 3rd birthday but if you need another age before I have them in my shop please get in touch and I’ll happily design one for you.

Posted in: News Tagged: birthday, children, custom, Etsy, Greeting Cards

Fathers Day cards

3 June 2019 by Lou
Custom Fathers Day Cards

It’s just two weeks until Father’s Day so I thought I’d let you know about some of the Fathers Day cards in my range that could be just the thing for your Dad đŸ™‚

Posted in: News Tagged: custom, Etsy, fathers day, Greeting Cards, stick figures
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