Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas and see you in 2017! I'm looking forward to lots of new projects and good stuff for the shop; how about you, what are you looking forward to in the new year?

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This year's Christmas.

These are the Christmas cards we sent out this year and I couldn't forget you, lovely blog (and all who read you of course!) I hope everyone has a really great festive season and that 2013 will be happy for you :)

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Snow Doves Gift Tags

Snow Doves with stars and mistletoe.

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Snow Doves Gift Tags - details.

Hello! This is a new version of Snow Doves with brown paper, stars and mistletoe for Spoonflower's gift tags contest. To see some excellent gift tag designs and vote, click here!

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Snow Doves on Grey

Another version of Snow Doves, this time on a grey linen background. It's available for order if you'd like some (on cotton, linen, silk, wallpaper, decal, or wrapping paper!) just click here!

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Evergreens

Thanks so much to all of you who bought a 2012 calendar and journal cover! I really hope you, or whoever you give them to, will enjoy using them next year. This design follows a similar theme, with just the red crowned cranes and pines making up the pattern for this week's Spoonflower contest (evergreens, limited to just four colours). Apparently the clouds are for good fortune and the cranes and pines both symbolise longevity in eastern tradition.

Pine & Crane

Pine & Crane details - click to view larger.

Click here if you'd like to see all the other evergreen designs (and vote!) and if you drop by tomorrow, there'll be a small Christmas freebie from me to you for you to pick up :)

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Update: See the new night and day versions of this design here!

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Winter Sleep

Winter Sleep

A screen print / Gocco style version of Winter Sleep. I've never used a Print Gocco but I liked vectorizing the squidgy ink edges of the elements.

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Illustration Friday - Hibernate

Winter Sleep

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I think I'll feel like giving this a go when this amazing Indian Summer is over and the cold weather arrives.

While reading up for this illustration, I read that a bonfire pile is heaven to a hedgehog looking for a place to hibernate. If you're celebrating Bonfire Night at home next month there are some good tips to avoid a grisly end for them and the other wildlife in your garden here.

You can have a look at all the other Hibernate illustrations here!

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