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Sending Cards and Letters

14 January 2021 by Lou
keepsakes - cards and letters

Sending cards and letters seems to be making a bit of a comeback. There’s something really thrilling about getting a card or personal letter through snail mail. Much as we all love email and social media, they’re just not as special… Everywhere you look there is advice on how to do a ‘digital detox’ or … [Read more…]

Posted in: Special Occasion Fun Facts Tagged: Greeting Cards, letters, snail mail

5 a Day Greeting Card Collection

7 January 2021 by Lou

I’m happy to announce that my new 5 a Day greeting card collection is now available. 2020 wasn’t the best year and 2021 isn’t off to a great start either, so I figured we all need a bit of cheering up and that’s what this collection is all about. It’s full of silly puns and … [Read more…]

Posted in: Behind the Scenes, News Tagged: anniversary, birthday, Etsy, Greeting Cards, illustrations, mothers day, valentines day

My Greeting Card Business – looking back on 2020

28 December 2020 by Lou
Greeting Card Business_Review

I hope you all enjoyed your Christmas despite the restrictions. This is my last post of 2020 so I thought chat to you about what this past year meant for my greeting card business and for me personally. This post is a bit more personal and serious than usual, but you’ll get to know me … [Read more…]

Posted in: Behind the Scenes Tagged: greeting card business, Greeting Cards, new year

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

Eco Friendly Gift Wrapping Ideas

21 September 2020 by Lou
eco friendly gift wrapping with newspaper

I decided to try and avoid buying wrapping paper as much as possible a while ago, as it seems awfully wasteful. As a result I’ve been investigating more eco-friendly gift wrapping ideas and, although I’m still learning, I thought you might like to hear about some of them. Not everyone realises that the majority of … [Read more…]

Posted in: Creative stuff, Gift Giving Tips Tagged: anniversary, birthday, christmas, eco friendly, Etsy, fathers day, gift wrapping, gifts, Greeting Cards, valentines day

Wedding Anniversary Gifts by Year

2 August 2020 by Lou
Wedding Anniversary Gifts by Year

I’ve been selling a lot of unique wedding anniversary cards with my cartoon portraits on recently – I guess it’s that time of year 😍. I know about paper, silver, ruby and gold anniversaries but I started wondering, what are the traditional wedding anniversary gifts year by year in the UK? It turns out there … [Read more…]

Posted in: Gift Giving Tips, Special Occasion Fun Facts Tagged: anniversaries, anniversary, cartoon portraits, gift ideas, gifts, Greeting Cards, stick figures

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

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

My greeting cards confession

8 June 2020 by Lou
simply the best greeting card

Okay, it’s confession time… I have to admit that I don’t send all that many greeting cards. Yep, you heard right. You might think this makes me a terrible hypocrite, being a designer and seller of my own range of greeting cards. But (a) I’m rubbish at pretending so I might as well get it … [Read more…]

Posted in: Behind the Scenes Tagged: best friends, cartoon portraits, Greeting Cards, music

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
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