London Calling!

I loved designing these London papers and have just finished making them today :)

There's a set of 8 scrapbooking papers (12x12 inch) featuring my illustrations of famous London landmarks, the Queen's guard, Beefeaters, black taxis, red buses, phone boxes, post boxes, pigeons, umbrellas and a few simpler patterns to mix and match with the more detailed ones.

It was quite tricky working out how to put all the landmarks together - Tower Bridge, the Tower of London, Big Ben, the London Eye as well as a few others.  I decided to put them together as a sort of collaged skyline.

The skyline also appears in this coordinating collage sheet...

I think these printables would be great for London themed scrapbook pages!

The papers and collage sheet are available to buy from my Etsy shop: www.hfcSupplies.etsy.com

Words and Phrases - new printable collage sheet

I spent this morning working on a new collage sheet - it's a sheet of words and phrases that I thought would be really useful for cardmaking and scrapbooking...

The sheet contains over 70 words and phrases in 3 sizes - from 'happy birthday' and 'thank you' to 'mr', 'mrs', 'baby' and much more!  The text is all in black on coloured backgrounds - with 6 colour schemes to choose from.  My favourite schemes are these two here...

The sheet has just been listed in my shop and is available to buy here.

I'm also working on some new fish illustrations - more on that tomorrow! :)

Christmas Baubles printable scrapbooking papers

To coordinate with my Christmas Baubles digital collage sheet here's a new set of printable scrapbooking papers...

There are 8 designs, each measuring 12x12 inches and can be printed on A4 paper.  Two of the designs feature baubles but the other papers in the set are quite versatile so could be used in projects all year round - not just for Christmas!

These papers are available in my shop... www.hfcSupplies.etsy.com

Christmas Baubles collage sheet

It's unseasonally hot and summery here, which is lovely, so it seems wrong to be designing Christmas printables!

This sheet was inspired by vintage glass baubles - I loved the bright colours of the baubles which gave me the idea of moving away from just using reds and greens, like in my last Christmas set, and including pinks and blues too.

My bauble designs started as pen and watercolour illustrations which were scanned and finished digitally.  I then designed the coordinating border strips and tags to include on the same sheet.

This printable collage sheet is available to buy from my shop http://www.etsy.com/listing/82801515/digital-collage-sheet-christmas-baubles

New Christmas printable scrapbooking papers

A new addition to my collection of printable scrapbooking papers is this set of Christmas papers, featuring 8 designs in red and green.  There are lots of baubles as well as spots, stripes, plaid and a paper with 'Merry Christmas' bunting.
You can buy the papers to download and print yourself from my shop here.

Paper Makes...

More makes using my printable collage sheets...  The pretty vintage inspired ACEO above was made using a background from the 'Sepia Handwriting' set and 1 inch squares from the 'Vintage Sheet Music' and 'Flowers' (1003) sets. I also used hand stitching, punched paper daisies, a gemstone, old fancy clockhand and glitter.

I love daisies they make me think of sunny summer days :)  The daisies on this card are from my 'Flowers' (1003) collage sheet.  For this design I layered the photo squares on paper over a background paper and added some ribbon, gem flower and 'Thank You' sticker.

 

Playtime

Time for a little experimentation with ACEOs... I made this collaged ACEO using one of my ACEO backing papers, a copy of an old family photograph, some vintage buttons and fibres.  In the bottom left corner I picked up the flower detail on the backing paper by hand stitching around the outline.  I've also rubber stamped the text 'playtime'.

Strawberries

It's just like summer here at the moment - lovely weather!  The strawberries seem to like it too and are growing really well, I'm hoping for a bumper crop this year :)  Inspired by my growing fruit I designed some new printables...

 

They're some of my favourite paper designs so far :)  Both the scrapbooking papers and collage sheet are now available in my Etsy shop.

Rule Britannia

I thought I would join in with all the British and Royal Wedding inspired things that are around at the moment - so I created some new digital scrapbooking/ collage sheets.  With a red, white and blue theme they feature the union jack, crowns and corgis...

They were fun to make (and once I make one I always want to make more!) - I like using a combination of pen drawings and digital art, hopefully it makes them a little different to ones that other people make too.  These are both available in my Etsy shop now.

I'm looking forward to having another Bank Holiday tomorrow - hope everyone has a good day whether they celebrate the wedding or not!

Cupcakes to craft with...

I am slowly building my collection of digital collage sheets in my crafting supplies shop...  Here are two new additions both on the theme of cupcakes.

The cakes start as pencil sketches which are tidied up and drawn over in pen then scanned.  Next I coloured the line drawings digitally and added the backgrounds, also drawn digitally.  I love playing around with the colours and patterns until I'm happy with the set :)

Digital Collage Sheets

I've recently been working on a new branch to my supplies shop and have been designing digital collage sheets - these are sold as jpeg (or pdf) files which you can download and print yourself to use in your own personal crafting projects or for small scale business, selling things you've made from the sheets.

I've seen collage sheets online before but it wasn't until recently that I thought I would have a go at making my own - I then realised how fun and addictive they were so I'm starting to get a little collection of them in my shop now!

So far my designs range from photographs of my vintage button collection to background papers made from layered textures and old handwriting. The latest addition is this set of 12 inch scrapbooking papers featuring my rabbit illustration, spots, checks, carrots and flowers...

You can see the full range so far in my etsy supplies shop www.hfcsupplies.etsy.com