Very Pheasant To Meet You...

Hello!

My goodness, it's April already.  

I feel like I've fallen off the blogging train a little.  April is always a chaotic month for me - we have many birthdays & celebrations in our house this month, including my own - so it's hard to remain focused as family life takes over.

That said, it's the social media stuff that has suffered more as I have lots of ideas for illustrations brewing at the moment and have been enjoying spending some precious creative time at my desk.  

I think it's about time I started gathering some of the new work and sharing it here on my blog. 

These pieces have been shared over on my Instagram and Facebook pages, but I think it's nice to put everything together and showcase them here (if only for me to document my work as it progresses)...

Today's piece is a woodland creature inspired illustration featuring a badger and pheasant which I've named 'Very Pheasant To Meet You'.  This pair began as a little sharpie sketchbook doodle following a weekend walk on The Quantock Hills, just a few short miles from our house....

The colours are certainly inspired by the hues of the wild flowers in the nearby woods.

I've already added this new design to my Society 6 and Etsy shops, but have plans for this to become part of a new mini collection...

I hope to be back here soon to share more work in progress and inspirations.

Have a lovely week

Best wishes

Sleepy Cat in a Spring Garden - Playing with Patterns

Hello,

Hope this blog post finds you well.

The past couple of weeks have felt like a little bit of a struggle as it's the season of colds and flu and I've been carrying my dose around with me, which has left me feeling a little lack lustre.  

So I felt it was important to carve out some creative play time.  For me that meant exploring a little more pattern making. I'd drawn some spring flowers in my sketch book that had been inspired by the little snowdrops and crocuses that are popping their heads up in my garden and making me smile...

 I scanned the drawings and started adding colour.

The bright zingy orange of the crocus seemed to determine the colours and made me think of a certain marmalade coloured tom cat that frequently visits our garden - so he's made it into the designs too...

All in all, it's been a fairly good way to nurse a cold and I feel like I've achieved something - even if it wasn't what I was supposed to be achieving!

As John Lennon once said "Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted!"

My new Sleepy Cat design is now available to be printed on demand onto all kinds of everything over at my Society 6 shop.

https://society6.com/product/sleepy-cat-in-a-spring-garden_print#1=45

Have a lovely day!

Best wishes

Gift Ideas for Her - from my latest collection...

Hello!

Hope you had a lovely weekend. 

With 'Black Friday' looming at the end of this week, thoughts are turning to Christmas shopping.  I've put together a selection from my current online collections to help you gather some ideas for  gifts for her.

At the top is my 'Live in the garden, sleep in the house' print - ideal for a garden lover...

On my website:

http://www.artworkbyangie.com/live-in-the-garden-unframed-print.html#cid=391439

In my folksy shop:

https://folksy.com/items/6758454--Live-In-The-Garden-10x8-Framed-Illustration-Print

In my Etsy shop:

https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/256683100/live-in-the-garden-a4-unframed?ref=shop_home_active_1

For a cat loving lady, there's my 'I'm In Charge' framed illustration print:

On my website...

http://www.artworkbyangie.com/im-in-charge.html#cid=1177777

In my folksy shop:

https://folksy.com/items/6697789--I-m-In-Charge-10x8-Framed-print

In my Etsy shop:

https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/243673668/im-in-charge-a4-unframed-illustration?ref=related-1

For ladies with wanderlust and a thirst for adventure, there's my 2016 Wallplanner 'Plan Amazing Adventures'...

On my website:

http://www.artworkbyangie.com/wall-planner-amazing-adventures.html#cid=1167023

In my folksy shop:

https://folksy.com/items/6695814-2016-Wall-Planner-Plan-Amazing-Adventures

My 2016 A5 sized desk calendar is packed with colour and pretty details, guaranteed to brighten even the dullest of days...

In my folksy shop:

https://folksy.com/items/6717538-2016-Desktop-Calendar-A5-sized

In my Etsy shop:

https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/248975311/2016-desktop-calendar-planner-a5-sized?ref=related-0

I still have a small stock of these handy and very cheerful A5, 40 page weekly notepad planners - who said 'to do' lists need to look boring?!... 

In my folksy shop:

https://folksy.com/items/6569798-Weekly-Planner-Notepad-Craft-Make-all-the-things

https://folksy.com/items/6569806-Weekly-Planner-Notepad-Make-Beautiful-Plans

In my Etsy shop:

https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/213004485/weekly-planner-notepad-craft-make-all?ref=related-2

https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/212998538/weekly-planner-notepad-make-beautiful?ref=related-2

Over at my Society 6 shop there's all things bright and beautiful - bringing the best of nature's spring and summer to any home or handbag:

http://society6.com/angiespurgeon

Have a lovely day!

Back to School and Down To Business...

Hello!

September is here and our girls are back in the swing of the school routine.  I am also back in full swing with work and have really been enjoying playing with pattern these past few days.

I wanted to create some patterns to update my Society 6 & Spoonflower shops whilst giving me some new designs to include in some new products for my Folksy and Etsy shops...

I seem to have a big thing for British garden birds, butterflies and an abundance of colourful flowers.  It may have something to do with the inspiration I gathered over the summer from lots of days out with the kids to local National Trust places such as Dunster Castle and Montacute House. The ornate Tudor tapestries at Montacute especially, with details of birds and flowers really captured my imagination!... 

 Here are my two latest designs which have already been added to my Society 6 shop.  

The pink pattern is called 'Blackbirds' and the teal pattern is called 'Bluetits and Blackbirds'...

Just as I finished adding these designs to Society 6 I got a notification that they are running a free worldwide shipping promo until the 13th Sept - so it looks like my timing was spot on!. Here's a link to that promo:

https://society6.com/angiespurgeon?promo=D2QYQQ9PDJQR

I've also been working on my 2016 wall calendars which will be ready to go to print in the next few days.  As soon as these are off to the printers I will pop a pre-order listing up on my sites so keep an eye out for those.  If you are a lovely email subscriber, you will be sent an email with a link first.  To subscribe to my emails here's a link:

http://artworkbyangie.us6.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=652aea9078616834d3a2f003e&id=97f65c83e6

Here's a little peep at which images have made the cut for this year's calendar... 

This year it will be completely illustrations in the calendar (handy framing size once the year is up).  I am also working on a smaller 2016 desk calendar featuring some of my patterns, more about that soon!

Until then, have a lovely week!

Best wishes

Summer...

Hello!

The image above sums up the summer for me because it is a peep at work in progress of a new collection of greetings cards coming soon called 'Home Is...' 

This summer has mostly been a delicate juggling act of entertaining our two girls whilst working on this new range.  With this particular design, the first has directly inspired the latter!...

Here's another little peep at how this collection is shaping up.  I'll be able to reveal all in September.  This collection will be available as wholesale greetings cards through my friends at the publishing company, more details are available on the Trade section of my website.  

I am also steadily releasing some of the designs as illustration prints, two if which, 'I'm In Charge' and 'Energy Saving Mode' are already listed on all my online shops (website, Folksy and Etsy)....

Of course it's not all been about work.  There have been plenty of days out, new experiences, birthdays to celebrate and fun to be had these past few weeks....

Whilst out and about there have been a few sightings of my cards in shops, like this one in Waterstones...

On the whole, it's been a laid back summer with plenty of sunny days to enjoy.  

Which has kept me nicely inspired and alongside working on the new greetings card range I've been tinkering with patterns, mostly on a summery theme.  

I have plans to develop some new patterns for gift wrap and fabrics so am steadily building up a stock of new designs to eventually add to my Spoonflower shop...

Starting with this one called 'Wild Strawberries'.  This design is already listed on my Society 6 shop so is available on all sorts of things from totes to t-shirts...

I also began playing with this 'Kingfisher' design, inspired by a watercolour painting I did earlier in the year...

It began as a simple line arrangement which I always intended to colour up.  Once I saw the line drawing, I knew I had to save that version too as I think this will make a nice version for fabrics when I come to order Spoonflower & Print Me Pretty samples soon...

Meanwhile, the colour version is already available on all kinds of everything over at my Society 6.

I hope you are all enjoying summer too!

Best wishes

Angie

Happily Ever After...

Hello!

Long time no blog post again. Sorry about that.  I've been immersed in working on my newest collection.  For the past few weeks I've been following up my new occasions card designs with a new collection called Happily Ever After.  I'm still working on some more illustrations in this range, but wanted to share where I'm at so far with it all.  Mainly because  as soon the the illustrations are complete, they are being listed over on my Folksy and Etsy shops.  I think they work well together as nursery prints and are also ideal to personalise by simply adding a child's name and date of birth on them.

There's an Alice and Wonderland themed illustration in this collection too, to celebrate 150 years of Alice, and it is my entry in the Etsy and British Library competition - 'Redesigning Alice'...

Not only am I releasing these as prints, slowly but surely, some are being added to my Society 6 shop so that they become available on a wider range of accessories and homewares....

I began work on this range last Autumn and you may recognise my Fox and Hare print from that time.   Other work needed to be attended to, so there's been a bit of break in the middle of working on these, but I'm enjoying picking up where I left off and have been getting really stuck in to them lately.... 

To celebrate the launch of these new designs, I'm running a limited period multi buy offer on nursery prints.  There are 2 packs of 4 Unframed A4 Prints to choose from.   At £28 plus P&P, each pack saves a whopping £20 off the cost of buying each print individually (normally each individual print is £12 - with this offer it comes down to £7 each)...

Choose from either the 'Fairy Tales' pack which includes:

Rapunzel, The Princess and The Pea, Alice and The Hatter, The Elves and the Shoemaker.

https://folksy.com/items/6661932-OFFER-4-x-Unframed-Nursery-Prints-Multi-Buy-Fairy-Tales-Pack

Or the 'Sunshine' pack which includes:

My Sunshine, When Skies are Grey, Fox and Hare, The Tortoise and Hare.

https://folksy.com/items/6661942-OFFER-4-x-Unframed-Nursery-Prints-Multi-Buy-Sunshine-Pack

Also, if you are a subscriber to my newsletter, don't forget you should have your exclusive 20% OFF code for May, which you can apply to these offers for further discount until 8th June.

If you'd like to receive my email newsletter offer codes, you can sign up for my emails here:

http://artworkbyangie.us6.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=652aea9078616834d3a2f003e&id=97f65c83e6

Have a lovely day!

Best wishes

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...

Hello,

It's official! 

I have seen the John Lewis Christmas ad (ahhh, penguins!)...the pumpkins are in the composter and fireworks are now just a memory...

  

May the Christmas shopping commence!

I've been quiet here on the blog because listing products online takes longer each year as my product range and number of online shops continue to grow...

It's done now and I'm proud to be able to offer such a colourful choice of cards, wrap and prints to help make Christmas a very Merry and Bright one this year...

My newsletter subscribers will have already seen from the email that went out this week, that there are a few offers currently running to help ease the cost....

First up, my newsletter subscribers will be sent a discount code for 20% off at my website and Etsy shops which is running right up until 19th December.  To subscribe to my emails, please fill in the form here...

Over on my Bespo shop there is 25% off everything throughout November using the code above...

And, this weekend over on my Society 6 shop there is free worldwide shipping until 9th November.

Have a lovely weekend!

Best wishes