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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

Printable Christmas Gift Tags

30 November 2020 by Lou
printable christmas gift tags

Fancy some printable Christmas gift tags? This week I wanted to give you something to say thank you for visiting my blog and all the other support you’ve shown me. The gift tags designs are based on some of the illustrations I’ve done for my Christmas card collection so you can also buy a card … [Read more…]

Posted in: Creative stuff, News Tagged: christmas, creativity, gift tags, gift wrapping, gifts, illustrations, printables

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

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

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

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
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