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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

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

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

Free colouring in pages for kids

2 April 2020 by Lou
Free colouring in pages

We’ve all been in lockdown for a while now, so I hope you’re all doing ok. It must be particularly difficult if you have young children at home to entertain, so I wanted to do what I could to help. I’m offering some free colouring in pages for kids which you can download and print … [Read more…]

Posted in: Creative stuff Tagged: drawing, illustrations, Prints

New Valentine’s Day cards

22 January 2020 by Lou
Bee Mine Forever Valentine Card

As well as the Couple Portrait Valentine Cards I wrote about last week, I’ve also added some other new Valentine’s Day cards to my Etsy shop – some ready to ship and one which can be personalised with your own photo. I’ve tried to create a range that appeals to different tastes, whether you prefer … [Read more…]

Posted in: News Tagged: drawing, Etsy, Greeting Cards, illustrations, valentines day

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

Music themed cards

1 May 2019 by Lou

Anyone who knows me knows that music is my thing! I LOVE music – and love going to gigs and festivals. So of course I’ve combined two of my favourite things – music and drawing – to create music themed cards with stick figure versions of all sorts of singers, musicians and bands. I’ve drawn … [Read more…]

Posted in: Behind the Scenes Tagged: cartoon portraits, drawing, Greeting Cards, illustrations, music, stick figures

Mother’s Day cards and gifts

4 March 2019 by Lou
Custom family portrait for Mother's Day

With Mother’s Day coming up at the end of the month (it’s on the 31st March this year), I thought I’d let you know about some of the cards and gifts I have available for mums. I feel very luck to have a mother who is also a good friend and while I know not … [Read more…]

Posted in: News Tagged: cartoon portraits, custom, custom portraits, drawing, Greeting Cards, illustrations, mothers day, stick figures

Too early for Christmas cards?

12 October 2018 by Lou
Christmas cards - stick figure family portrait

I’m one of those people who gets annoyed when the shops start stocking Christmas cards and decorations in September/October, but I’ve now joined their ranks. In my defense though, when you add items on Etsy they stick around for 4 months at a time. It seems a little pointless to add them in November and … [Read more…]

Posted in: News Tagged: christmas, custom, drawing, Etsy, Greeting Cards, illustrations, stick figures

Doing work I love

10 October 2018 by Lou
Drawing of Me Happy to be Doing What I Love

Last year I cut back on how much time I spend on my day job to focus on spending more time doing work I love, with the hope that eventually it may turn into an income. I realise I’m extremely lucky to be able to do this, as my day job does pay very generously … [Read more…]

Posted in: Behind the Scenes Tagged: creativity, drawing, Etsy, illustrations, income, work
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