Thortful - A New Place to Buy My Greeting Cards!

I'm always on the look out for new opportunities to sell my artwork and I recently came across Thortful - a UK based company which produces high quality greeting cards designed by their community of designers, illustrators and  photographers.  You can now find a small selection of my designs on Thortful and I will be adding more soon!
All cards from Thortful are printed in the UK on premium quality A5 paper and sent 1st class - if you order by 2pm they are posted the same day!  You can also personalise cards with a message, which is printed inside the card.
If you are super organised you can even start buying your Christmas cards now - I've added these 4 Christmas card designs so far...
Get 50% off your first card with this code: MMXQFF9S

This week Thortful are also offering a 20% discount off every card - so it's a great time to try out one of my designs (or anyone elses!).  Just use code AUGUST20 at checkout.  The offer ends Friday 26th August.

A Look Back At New Designs in July

July was a busy month for me, working on new designs and products.  Unfortunately I'm not able to share all of them with you yet, but I do have plenty which you can see!

First up, here's a look at my latest set of printables from my Etsy shop - it's a fun collection inspired by the Wheels on the Bus song (yes, I did end up with the song stuck in my head while making these!). Designs from this set were initially created after a customer request and they are a spin off from my London Calling range, which features a red London bus. So far I have an invitation, birthday bunting banner, name place cards, cupcake toppers and party hats - more items will be added soon. A scaled down version of one of the hats is being modelled by one of my guinea pigs in the image below - the full size ones are 6 inches tall.


I have also added many new designs to my Spoonflower shop, which are available on fabric, wallpaper and gift wrap.  Some of the new designs are different colour ways or scales of existing designs and some are completely new.  My personal favourites are the 'Scattered Feathers and Arrows' and 'Seahorses in Teal' designs.


'Patchwork Bees Coordinates' is another new one - this has 4 coordinating designs on 1 yard of fabric; patchwork bees, floral, spotty and chevron patterns.  Coordinates designs are great if you're making something like a quilt and want several different designs in one project!  If you purchase a smaller piece of this design (a test swatch or fat quarter) you will receive just the floral pattern from the 4 coordinates.


Finally, here is a look at some of the new designs and products I have been adding to my Society6 shop. The colourful butterflies design in now available on a wide range of products like tote bags, phone cases, clothing and home ware. My seahorses design is also new - I love this one as a beach towel! I added some new products to existing designs too - you'll now find horses and rabbits on mugs and budgies on wall clocks!
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New Designs for June

I introduced a few new designs to my Etsy and Spoonflower shops in June (I can't believe that it will be July tomorrow already!).  Most of my new printable designs this month were around the Hot Air Balloon theme and included sets of scrapbooking papers in different colour schemes; blue, grey and teal, coral and mint, grey and yellow.  Lots of lovely colours - I'm not sure which is my favourite, which one do you like best?
I also have a new collage sheet, designed to coordinate with the blue set of papers, and a set of digital stamps.

(PS. You still have time to download a free hot air balloon digital stamp and background paper via this blog post: Craft Challenge: Hot Air Balloons and Free Printables, where you'll also find details about how you can join in with the challenge!)


Apart from Hot Air Balloons, I did also create this new printable recipe card - great for sharing summery recipes!  It has a strawberries and floral design...

On Spoonflower I have released a batch of new designs on fabric, wallpaper and giftwrap after receiving test prints on this sampler..


The new designs are on a variety of subjects, including Steampunk Clockwork Hummingbirds, London skyline, Japanese garden designs inspired by cherry blossom, watercolour geometric patterns, dalmations and rabbits (including an Easter one, which I know is a little unseasonal but will be ready for creating Easter projects for next year!).

2 for 1 on Fat Quarters at Spoonflower and My New Designs

The results of Spoonflower's annual Tea Towel Calendar competition were published yesterday, which means it's also time for Spoonflower's 2 for 1 offer on all fat quarters.  Perfect for stocking up on tea towels, or buying fabric for making small projects and gifts!


There were so many lovely tea towel designs this year, it was nice to see some of the ones I voted for made it into the top ten!  You can see all of the entries on Spoonflower's blog.
My cats themed design came 96th out of 296 entries (with 139 votes) - thank you if you voted for it! Unfortunately you will not be able to buy my cats tea towel calendar yet as I need to order a test print first, but I have plenty of other designs available for you to take advantage of Spoonflower's fantastic offer!
I have updated the dates on my Budgies tea towel calendar, so you can use it for 2016 now...

This Dragon Cut and Sew plushie pattern fits on a fat quarter (27x18 inches) - you could make it up to give as a gift, or give it as a project for a crafty friend to make themselves...

I have over 80 different fabric designs in my shop and the range has just got bigger!  I received samples of my latest designs last week and have just been making them available to buy.  Here is a small selection of my new Christmas star and snowflake designs, Octopuses, 90s Nostalgia, a new colourway of my rabbits (on pink) - to see the rest of my designs visit my shop: Hazel Fisher Creations on Spoonflower

You can mix and match different designs from different designers to take advantage of the 2 for 1 offer (see all the details over on Spoonflower).  Spoonflower have also been sharing ideas for projects to make using a fat quarter of fabric on Pinterest.

This is also a good time to let you know about ordering dates for Christmas; to receive fabric, gift wrap or wallpaper by 24th December, with Standard Shipping, order by Sunday 6th December if you're in the US or by Thursday 19th November for everywhere else.  Full details can be seen on Spoonflower here.

If you buy any of my fabric I would love to hear what you make with it!

New Design Release - Halloween

Today I'm excited to be releasing a new collection of printable Halloween designs in my shop on Etsy! If you follow me on Facebook you will already have seen the sneak peeks I shared for some new designs I have been working on... digital stamps, scrapbook papers and an invitation design.  I will be sharing some ideas for using them over the next few weeks - I would love to see what other people make with them too, so if you buy and use any of these please feel free to share your photos by emailing me, including a link in the comments below this post or on my Facebook page! 

I had great fun coming up with ideas for this set of digital stamps!  The set includes 3 children dressed up; as a witch, mummy and ghost, with 3 smaller images; a cat, bat and pumpkin and 3 messages; 'Boo!', 'Happy Halloween' and 'Trick or Treat?'.

Each image comes as a separate jpg file (with a white background) and as a png file (with a transparent background).  The transparent backgrounds of the png versions mean that they can be grouped and layered to create different combinations of images...

I designed a set of Halloween scrapbooking papers which could be used with the stamps - there are 8 papers in the set which includes a starry sky with moons and bats, spider web designs, chevron, striped, star and quatrefoil patterns...

I also designed this invitation with my witch and cat drawings on a spiderweb background - it could be used for Halloween parties or birthday parties.  As with all my invitation designs, it comes with personalised text and is sent as a digital file which you can either print at home, or take to your local printers...

You can find these designs and more of my other Halloween themed printables in my hfcSupplies Etsy shop.

July Review

July started off well for me but ended with an unplanned (and very much unwanted) break when I came down with the flu.  After a couple of weeks of doing nothing at all, things are slowly starting to return to normal this week.  It’s taking me a while to get my brain back into gear so this month’s review will be particularly helpful in reminding myself of all the things I was working on before I got sick and I hope you find it interesting too!

New designs…

I worked on several new designs in July which unfortunately I can’t share with you yet, although I did design a new set of Lavender flower themed scrapbooking papers (which you can see in my shop here).  If you follow me on facebook you will have already seen a picture from my sketchbook when I started designing these papers.

I also created some new surface pattern designs for Spoonflower, to coordinate with my existing fabric designs.  I  received the sample swatches last week and am in the process of making the new designs available to buy from my Spoonflower shop as fabric, gift wrap and wallpaper.

I added a new colour way of the ditsy sheep design with a lemon yellow background and 2 coordinating flower and spotty patterns…

These designs are part of my Rabbits collection…

I also designed a star pattern to coordinate with my Rocket in Space design, a snowflake design (which would be great for Christmas projects!) and a new blue flower pattern…

These cloud designs were created to go with my hot air balloon collection. I also decided to add a new fish pattern as my existing fishing flies design has been quite popular…

Blog…

In July I shared some ideas for teacher gifts, I was able to reveal the secret project I had been working on for 3 Picnic DIY Ideas and I posted a colour palette inspired by a photograph of a beetle I found in my garden.  Hopefully August will run a little smoother than July and I will be able to share more of the craft projects and tutorials I have been planning to do.

Other Work...

July was a time for catching up on admin and taxes, not very exciting but it had to be done!  I also decided to make a few changes to the design of my pages online - I changed the background to my blog from a basic chevron pattern to a hand drawn floral pattern (hope you like it!) - I thought it reflected my work a bit more, being hand drawn, and was more interesting than the old pattern.  I also tweaked things like my cover photo and profile image on facebook and the banner in my Etsy shop.  I'll probably continue making a few more changes to things in August.

Other things…

At the start of July we had 2 gorgeous new additions to our house – these cute guinea pigs! :)  The one on the left is called Lily and the one on the right is Rosie.  We soon noticed they have different characters – Rosie is the shy one while Lily is bolder and more curious.  Lily is also a lot more lively and wriggly, whereas Rosie is quite happy to sit still while you hold her.  They haven’t squeaked much yet, although they do get very excited especially when they get new hay – it’s funny watching them popcorn and dashing about!

Filling in the gaps…

I’ve been working on filling in some of the gaps in my collection of printable designs, so have quite a lot of new things I am adding to my shop!  Here’s a quick round up – I’m still working on printables using the new Butterflies theme as well as going back to older themes and adding new products to those…The new butterflies theme now has a set of 12 inch printable scrapbooking papers, some ‘Happy Birthday’ bunting……and cupcake toppers customised with your own choice of text.  Going back to some of my older designs I’ve made new sets of cupcake toppers with a cakes theme……clematis flowers and with a strawberries theme.
There are still a few more gaps in the collection to be filled, I’m also going to be working on some tutorials on different things you could make with the printables!