Christmas mouse

Hello, sorry for my long absence from blogging. I haven't stopped crafting though and now its October I am in full Christmas mode (a little early I know, but I cant help it i just love Christmas!) I have lots of new Christmas projects to share with you and here's the first. Here's a little mouse I spent yesterday making he is adorable with his cute little outfit, stripey top and little ears.

Rag Doll

Sorry for my lack of posts recently. I have been so busy what with finishing uni, graduating and starting my new job as a designer I havent had time to blog much. However I still have been busy creating. This little lady is my first attempt at a rag doll (and the first time I have used my sewing machine in a few years). Shes so cute I love her hair. Her cute outfit is a great way of using up lots of scraps of material and its great to mix and match lots of colour and patterns. Enjoy.

Degree 2:1

Today I finally received my degree classification. I'm so pleased to have received a 2:1 in BA Graphic Communication from Northampton University.

Endangered Birds of Britain

My final major project for my graphic communication degree focused on the increasing number of Endangered Birds in Britain. The design focused on making the birds easier to identify by using flat vectorised illustrations. Books and greetings cards were produced to inform and create awareness of the birds. These two posters were also part of the campaign and were featured in my recent show.

Show pictures

Here are a few pictures of my area at the Northampton University Graphic communication show which opens this Thursday 9th June at 6pm. I will be putting more pictures up soon and hope to see you there.

My area focuses on my final major project this year in which I produced a range of books containing greetings cards. The subject was the increasing number of endangered birds in the UK.

The other project my area focuses on is my YCN Fedrigoni Alice in Wonderland tea party. Lots of the cupcakes are on my plinth as well as some cups and saucers.

Also shown is my portfolio which I hope you will take a look at.

Find out more about the show and all the students exhibiting at http://www.dna2011.co.uk/

Dog with Beret

I loved my last sausage dog felt creation so I decided to make more of them. This time however I felt they needed a little more personality so they now have little coloured berets and look so adorable.

Paper Rabbit

This weekend I have been going through all my work to photograph and adjust for my final portfolio. There seems to be so much of it and I still have a lot to complete for my final major project too. Anyway I found this paper bunny. Hes so cute, I made a whole range of these a while ago in a range of different colour, patterns and sizes. I even made two huge rabbits that formed part of a show. This little bunny however is only around 11.5 inches in height. They are great fun to make and different decorations make them look so different.

Royal Tea Party Day 5

Today's royal inspired craft for the tea party is place settings and napkins. The paper napkins feature a gold crown with red, white and blue decoration. The place settings have a mini guardsman at the side and a mini crown above the area to write the guests name on.

Royal Tea Party Day 4

Today's royal craft is a mini favour box for guests containing hair slides or hair elastics for guests to wear at the party. The box has a little gold crown on and I've added red ribbon so it can be hung up too. The hair slides / elastics have felt flowers sewn on them and make a quick and easy gift. They all of course have the red, white and blue theme.

(Special thanks to my two best friends for modelling the hair elastics!)

Royal Tea Party Day 2 Cupcakes

I love making paper cupcakes, they are so much fun and look great. Heres my royal inspired cupcakes with golden crowns on the wrappers and little red roses on the top. Ive kept the red white a blue theme on my cakes for the tea party and even made a little stand for some of them.

Royal Wedding tea party

Its a week to go to the big event here in the UK. Although we aren't having a street party where I live, I just couldn't resist making some paper crafts for the big day. So here's the plan. Everyday up until the big day I will be sharing with you a different part of the tea party I'm going to make. Today its the royal inspired banner. The banner has a union jack on it and I have added little crowns to it as well. It is cut on my Silhouette machine and the edges are slightly inked for definition. I have included a template at the bottom if you want to have a go at the banner yourself.

Sock Designs

So over in the USA Sock it to me have been holding a design a sock contest. This was such a fun project to take part in and really got me into surface pattern designing again. Heres a couple of designs I made for it.