Spoonflower - my designs on fabric!

Lots of new, exciting things have been happening with my business recently!  One of my new ventures is opening a Spoonflower shop to sell my designs on fabric, wallpaper and gift wrap.   If you buy any of my designs in the shop they will be digitally printed and sent to you directly from Spoonflower.  The fabric can be bought as swatches, fat quarters or by the yard in a range of different types of fabric.

Before I could list any of my designs to sell I had to order some swatches to check everything looked ok.  Well, the swatches arrived yesterday (it took about 3 weeks for printing and standard delivery to the UK) and they look great!  So you can now buy fabric I have designed to use in your craft projects!

Here are some photos of the swatches I ordered…

This Citrus Fruits pattern was a design I entered into one of Spoonflower’s contests.

Ball Games pattern – lots of balls from different sports on a green background.

Brightly coloured butterflies, including the peacock, ulysses and monarch.

2 different designs featuring budgies – one has rows of blue, green and yellow budgerigars and the other has monochrome birds.

This Nautical, sailing boat themed design coordinates with the chevron pattern.

I have a collection of different designs from my cupcakes and roses themed set – including a pretty rose design, rows of cupcakes and a coordinating spotty pattern in green.  The spotty blue pattern is actually part of the budgie collection, but would go well with the rose design too.

Finally, there are 4 designs in my London Calling themed collection which features my illustrations of British post boxes and phone boxes, London soldiers, Buses and Taxis and a coordinating chevron pattern.

The London bus and taxi design in my shop is actually slightly different to the sample I had printed.  I decided that the buses and taxis looked a bit too close together, so have altered the design so that they are more spaced out.

You could use the fabric in all sorts of sewing projects - I think some of these designs would be great for making into cushion covers or purses.  If you buy any of these fabrics I would love to see what you make!

21st Birthday Makes

It was my sister's 21st birthday recently and I thought I would share some pictures of things I made for her...

I made a card using some of my Cupcakes and Roses papers along with some other papers and embellishments from my crafty stash.

I also made a little brooch (my sister loves cupcakes!) from felt.

Cupcakes and Roses – Cupcake Toppers

I’ve been torturing myself with the mouth-watering scent of cupcakes this morning :)  I can’t eat them yet though – they have to be photographed first!  I made them for the launch of my final Cupcakes and Roses product; cupcake toppers…

These printable cupcake toppers come as a high resolution 300dpi file for you to print and make yourself.  The sheet measures 8.5 x 11 inches (approx. A4) and each circle is a little over 2 inches in diameter, so you can either hand cut them or use a 2 inch circle punch without leaving a white border.

The toppers are perfect for making cakes look pretty quickly.  They are really simple to make – just cut two circles and glue them together with a cocktail stick in the middle!  These circles could also be made into gift tags or used in scrapbooking and cardmaking.

I used a 2 inch scalloped circle punch for the topper in the photograph on strawberry flavoured cupcakes.  If you would like to try baking some yourself here’s the recipe…

6oz soft butter
6oz caster sugar
3 eggs
6oz self-raising flour
pink food colouring
1tsp strawberry flavouring
makes 11 cupcakes

Cream the butter and sugar.  Beat in the eggs then stir in the flour.  Add the strawberry flavouring and enough pink food colouring to make the colour you like.

Spoon into 11 cupcake cases and bake at 180°C for 20 minutes – until golden and when a skewer is inserted it comes out clean.

I decorated the cakes by piping buttercream with a star nozzle.  To make the icing cream 3oz soft butter with 6oz icing sugar and add pink food colouring.

 

The printable cupcake toppers are available to buy from my Etsy shop and Folksy shop.

Cupcakes and Roses part 3

For day 3 of my Cupcakes and Roses launch I have 2 new printable products...


Each of these cute printable gift boxes measures 2.5 x 3.5 x 2 inches when made up.  They're really easy to make and are great for giving small gifts in a unique way!  You can customise the boxes you make too - I finished the one in the photo with some stranded cotton thread and a little paper flower.










See a tutorial on how to make the gift boxes here: http://hazelfishercreations.blogspot.com/2011/08/printable-gift-box-tutorial.html

You can purchase a set of 2 of these printable gift boxes from my Etsy shop or my Folksy shop.

These pretty labels are also new today...

The set comes as 2 printable sheets, each with 8 designs featuring roses and cupcakes.  Each label measures 2.4 x 3.5 inches.  One sheet has 'To...' and 'From...' text added and the other sheet is without text.  They can be used as gift tags, journaling spots in scrapbooking, cardmaking and more!
These labels are also available to buy from my Etsy shop and Folksy shop.

Cupcakes and Roses part 2

Day 2 of my Cupcakes and Roses release is for this set of printable scrapbooking papers...

It includes some of the designs from the cardmaking kit and some new ones too...

I have designed a mixture of detailed rose and cupcake patterns along with simple spotty ones - they would be great for cards, scrapbooks, collage and more!

The set is available to buy from my craft supplies shop here.  You will receive 8 digital files; each sheet comes as a high resolution 300dpi file and measures 12 x 12 inches.

There's still more to come - the next products will be released tomorrow! :)

Release of new Cupcakes and Roses craft supplies

My new range of Cupcakes and Roses craft supplies is now ready for release!  The first product I am launching is this cardmaking kit...

This pretty kit contains card blanks, envelopes, papers, motifs and embellishments to make at least 5 cards.  With a bright, spring feel this kit would be great for making cards for a range of occassions; birthdays, thank you, get well soon, Mother's day and more!

I have designed all of the papers and motifs in this kit using a combination of pencil, pen, watercolours and digital art.  There are 5 backing papers which feature spots, stripes, tiny flowers and a rose pattern inspired by vintage teasets and floral fabrics.  Also included are border strips and motifs with cute cupcakes and a selection of messages.

For a little inspiration on the many cards and gift tags you could make with the kit here is a simple card I made...

I used a cream linen textured card blank, 2 of the spotty backing papers layered with a 'Happy Birthday' border strip, raspberry cupcake motif and bright pink ribbon.

This kit is available to buy from my Etsy supplies shop here.

Look out for the next release tomorrow!