Envelope craftiness

My poor trusty computer has been in hospital this week. The hot weather just got too much for it I think and it has drifted into a little coma. Hopefully it'll be back tomorrow and ready to help me with my (rapidly building pile of) work again!



In the meantime it meant some hours to play with just paper and scalpel... JOY! So I got busy making envelopes. Who knew such a thing could be such fun?! I used magazine pages and old posters to create them along with this great template I bought from Upon a Fold awhile back. (as always - please excuse my poor quality of photography - must work on that!)



It's kind of an unplanned adventure seeing what will appear on the front and what will appear inside. I especially liked that inside the phone envelope is a sleeping lady! 



(I'm very sorry but I can't credit all these collected images. Most are from Frankie magazine due to the great paper stock and the lovely illustrators they showcase)

Paperdoll Primer // Emily Martin

While burying myself in a most delightful bookshop over the weekend I came across The Black Apple's Paper Doll Primer. A most adorable and nostaligic-riddled book by talented US illustrator Emily Winifred Martin. I used to play for hours with paper dolls when I was little and would have treasured these lovely ones. The characters are fantastic and the clothes so very suave.

Internal images from Angry Chicken (& read her interview there too) 



Emily sells these beautiful small sets in her shop too if you don't want a whole book just yet.

Happy Hearts dear friends

via Bookshelf Porn

Wild animals

It's a most clever thing in my eyes to create a book that could be for a newborn baby or a knitting nanna... so beautiful is this one by Rop van Mierlo that it does just that!  (Buy a copy here if you like)




Wilde Dieren / Wild Animals from Rop van Mierlo on Vimeo.

Triangles on the brain

My heart fluttered a little when I saw these cards and prints by Design des Troy. Triangles have been creeping into my designs for the last little while... but repeated and overprinted like this they're even more grand!



These cards by CarsonToo bring a whole lotta credit to my 3 sided friend too



(p.s. Apologies for going AWOL for the last week... a busy busy studio it has been!)