Notelets & wrapping paper...

Slacking in postings of late, been a busy little time. After the floating back to earth from a wonderful 3 month trip to the states, it's time to get back to it. My heart goes out to all those travellers who are stuck due to the no flight situation and are just wanting to get home, I hope you all receive good news soon. Safe travelling.

Here are some designs for notelets and wrapping paper I've been working on...what you think?

Butterflies Invite

Whilst working on some more card designs for class, this being one of them, I thought about turning it into an invitation. I would hope for this to have matching brown paper gift bags with the butterfly motif on or tied up with ribbon and a butterfly (not a real one) thread through the ribbon as a name tag. May need to work on the arrangement of the butterflies so they appear more scattered...what you think? Each butterfly is filled with the patterns I have created the last few months.

New designs: Cherries Galorious, Wispy Rose, Simply Cherry

As promised, I've been working on some patterns using my new graphics pen. Oh, how did I live without it before? And here are the fruits of my labour (sorry about the awful pun). This is called 'Cherries Galorious' - funnily enough! Thought this pattern would look lovely as wrapping paper - on nice thick paper, perhaps double sided with spots. I love cherries, even glace cherries; I'm ashamed to say when making me christmas cake, I tend to finish the pot off once the required amount has been added! Naughty, but nice...

I had such fun drawing in Photoshop with this pen, usually I doodle in my lil book this rose, entitled 'Wispy Rose'. There is a story behind it. A couple of friends of mine asked me to work on a design for their wedding invitations, they wanted to incorporate their wedding date 09.06.07. Seeing as they were getting married in Edinburgh and the bride being Scottish, I couldn't resist the influence of Charles Henry Mackintosh - I love his work. So I started sketching ideas and eventually came up with a rose using the figures of the date (this was done using typed numbers and manipulated in PS). As I was sketching the figures fitted in well and the rose came quite naturally - needless to say they loved it. So much so, it was even iced on their wedding cake! See if you can work out the numbers, I have included images below of the final invite... how did I use the 7? This is the stem of the rose. Well, ever since then I have developed and sketched the rose and so had a go in PS with me new pen! I'm quite pleased with the results.

Here is the 'Simply Cherry' design, named simply because its all about the cherry, simple!