My neighbor Totoro inspired prints

Just for fun I designed some simple Totoro cards to screen print. I love how they turned out! I have a few for sale in my Etsy and Folksy shop....... I may have to keep one for myself.

New branding!

                                                                 Headers for online shops

For a while I've really wanted to design some business cards but it's been so difficult to think of a design! With this thought being at the back of my mind for months, an idea eventually popped into my head....... at 7am whilst getting ready for work, ha ha. So my buisness cards were designed and to give my business a more professional feel i also made matching headers for my blog and online shops. I'm so pleased with how these came out, it makes me feel more professional and positive about my work!

                                                                Buisness card details

Business card design

Spoonflower competition- After school snacks

It's been awhile since I've entered a Spoonflower competition, the last one i entered was around 6 months ago, ops! I hope to enter at least 1-2 a month as the Illustrator practise is good and hopefully i can make a small amount of money from it whilst having fun. I loved the brief for this one 'After school snacks' and instantly had fun ideas for it! I had fun with the character design and colouring of the design. Had quite a few problems when it came to repeating the pattern, i literally spent hours trying to fix it! I'm glad i kept going though and already have a couple of 'likes' on Spoonflower and lot's on Instagram!

Biscuits and Milk

Honey lemon bag- control panel to download

As part of my Honeylemon cosplay for Mcm Manchester, I made her amazing bag complete with chemical control panel! It was one of my favourite things to make, it was so much fun. I used screenshots and pic's from the internet to reproduce the panel in Illustrator.  I've made this PDF file for you to download to make your own Honeylemon bag!

 *** This control panel is free to download but is intended for personal use only and may not be re-sold or re-distributed commercially. ***

Big hero 6, Honeylemon bag

Honeylemon's bag was the object I was most looking forward to! It was a lot of fun to make but ended up being a bit of a pain! If I was to do this cosplay again I'd definitely redo the bag and make it more durable. The control panel I made myself using illustrator, I'm thinking of making a PDF for you all to download in a few days :) I just backed this onto some card and covered with acetate. The bag I don't have a pattern for, I just kind of made it up as I went along, ops! The balls were the most annoying part and most of the had fallen off by the end of the day which was a shame....... Need to work on that for next time!

Honeylemon helmet tutorial

At Manchester I had loads of people asking about how i made my helmet. It's the first time I've ever made anything like this....... but it was really easy! I owe it all to the Evil Ted channel on Youtube! Click the link, his video's are amazing, easy to follow and give great results!

Shopping list:

• Styrofoam head- I bought a cheap one from Ebay.
• EVA foam- I got a pack of x4 yoga mats, i only used 1!
• Contact cement- again a cheaper version from Ebay, it worked great.
• Duct tape
• Spraypaint- Pink and orange (My helmet turned out too pink, it should have been more purple)

I won't go into too much detail about the 'how to' because the Youtube video does a lot better at explaining! But here are some progress pic's of my helmet.

MCM Manchester 2015

This year I went to Comic Con in Manchester again, it was so much fun and enjoyed it even more than last year! Although i liked my cosplay last year of Astrid...... I really topped it this year with my Honeylemon! I put a lot more thought and effort into it and made sure i started well before the day. 

This is how she turned out...... I'm so happy with it :) I'm going to do a few posts about the process to hopefully help out some fellow Honeylemon's!