Baby Milestones

More new products! It's been a busy month and I'm so pleased to be sharing new work with you. These are my Baby Milestone Postcards, which are brand new and available through my Etsy shop. I am so pleased with this finished result and I've had some lovely feedback so far..

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These illustrative baby milestone postcards capture your baby’s first year in weeks, months and exciting events. 

The Baby Milestone postcards by Emily Atherton are hand-illustrated and digitally printed cards that help you celebrate the wonderful milestones of a baby’s first year, that are bound to put a smile on your face! Each card has been illustrated with beautiful detail so you can document all that is important to you and your baby through a selection of photographs.

The A6 milestone card is printed onto 280gsm high-quality card, with a gloss finish, a perfect weight for postcards. It offers beautiful quality printing and allows you write on the back if necessary. 

The designs are fun and colourful and gender neutral. They would be a wonderful gift for a new parent and a great way to tell a story of your baby's first year in the world. 

The 24 designs in the pack includes:
- 1-7 weeks
- 2-11 months
- 1 year

- My First Smile
- Today I Started Crawling
- Today I said my 1st Word
- Today I got my First Tooth
- Today I had my First Swim
- Today I took my First Steps

New Products!

I am looking forward to the winter months rolling in now, I'm ready for big socks and cosy jumpers! Autumn also sees the release of some new products from me and I am very excited to showcase them across my blog, social media and also at a few local craft fairs I will be attending in the coming months. 

First of all, I got the delivery of some lovely illustrated coasters. I have been focusing on my style of drawing recently and decided I love the intricacy of a fine pen and using Illustrator to add colour. I have also introduced a fresh, Scandi theme that runs throughout many of my new products. These are the coasters, which I will be selling as a pack of 4 across my Etsy shop, https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/EmilyKateAtherton?ref=search_shop_redirect and in my local gift shop, Gifts For Me and You

Stationery

I have been lucky enough to see some of my dreams become a reality in the past couple of months and I am looking forward to some new adventures very soon. 

We have the most beautiful weekend watching my older sister get married and I was over the moon and honoured to be a part of helping her day be everything she wished for! Everyone did their bit and I was in charge of stationery and any other creative input. I was really pleased with the outcome of everything I contributed for their day and we had some lovely comments on how personal the whole day felt! 

I love being able to share my creativity with others to make them a personal gift or something that they will always appreciate.

I have also been lucky enough to see some of my patterned products come to life which has been a great experience. I have used a number of patterns and created notebooks, memo pads and even tea-towels to showcase in a local shop! So pleased with this outcome and I hope it continues to build a lovely network of creatives.

Kids Patterns

I spent a few days last week designing some new patterns for use on kidswear patterns. I thought this would be a nice additional project to my portfolio and I was pleased with some of the results. I'm also wondering whether it would work on some homeware and gifts as the floral patterns are quite versatile and I like the colour combination. I thought I would share to see what you think...

Handmade Fair 2015

After a brilliant weekend exhibiting at Handmade Fair, I thought I would share a few snaps from the weekend. I was involved in some of the workshops at the Sizzix stand as well as creating the Bird House project in the Craft Asylum skill workshop.. There was such a great atmosphere at the fair and with the sun shining, everyone was extremely keen to get involved! We got some great feedback and it was lovely to see creations made from the collection I have designed for Craft Asylum.. As well as the workshops, we also tried our hand at a bit of celeb spotting! It was lovely to see such a wide range of talent and so many people excited about the craft...

            

It was such a great weekend and I have returned feeling very inspired and happy to have been out and networked with other designers! I hope to be involved next but in the meantime, look out for news on the Handmade Christmas Fair...

Handmade Fair

This week, in the studio, we have been extremely busy working on some eye-catching decorations for  the Craft Asylum stand at Handmade Fair. We will be attending the show all weekend, providing make and takes as well as being involved in the skill workshops! Wish me luck! It's always amazing to be involved in the shows and get valuable feedback from the consumers. We also love having a beautiful stand to exhibit how versatile the patterned papers are and to create a buzz around our products. We think these pinwheels do the trick!

Best of British

I recently noticed a competition to design a range of prints for the theme, 'Best of British'. I thought this would be a great opportunity to enjoy some design work outside of daily working! I set about with the theme and thought about different ideas that could represent this 'Best of British'. I have always loved working with nautical ideas and, from living close to the seaside, have always grown up with trips to the beach and sunset strolls. I thought this would be a lovely theme to work on. Below, are a couple of the designs I produced..

Candy collection by Craft Asylum

Recently, I spotted my first paper collection for Craft Asylum in the Chester Hobbycraft store. This was such a great achievement having worked with the brand for over a year now. I love to think of crafters taking it home and transforming the patterns into brilliant projects. The collection consists of a 12x12 paper pad, a 6x6 paper pad and some stamps, which all co-ordinate really nicely with one another, meaning the crafting possibilities are endless! Below are a couple of the designs featured in the collection and a store snap. I have also shared some of the designs on my Instagram and website here! This collection will also be a major part in the skills workshop we are doing at Handmade Fair in a couple of weeks, more on that soon!

Wedding Design

So, after a couple of months of working hard to get the design exactly right, I posted the Save the Dates for everyone a couple of weeks ago. Everyone involved was very happy with the final design and it was lovely to see how the printers did such a great job of helping me choose the correct paper and doing a super job on the colour matching! Next up, is the main invite, which we would like to send beautifully packaged with a belly band and ribbons. We have discussed using the same detailed drawing throughout the wedding stationery, to keep the theme consistent..

New Logo!

Been working on a new logo that will be placed on the Sizzix UK branding for the die collections I have recently designed. Below are a couple of snaps from the studio including die sample we have received of my first collection, 'Love Birds', some colour ideas and my finished logo...