we have a massive catalogue of designs to choose from, and we can mix bits from different designs, and we can create the perfect birthday invites for you. Whether age 1, age 2, age 3, age 4, age 5, age 6, age 7, or age 8. Whether they’re into lions, monkeys, racing driving, superheros, planes, diggers, or tractors…
We got given back some arty treats from our younger years, this little collection is mine…
what’s funny is i can REALLY remember drawing the horse and the snowman
i can remember my nanny saying that time just speeds up and up as you get older and now i know the exact feeling, months feel more like weeks used to feel
i’m enjoying the doodle a day challenge on instagram - i didn’t realise it was a challenge for every month of the year when i started it in january - but it is! (it reminds me of when i started a pottery evening class which i thought was for a year, only to find out it was a 3 year wednesday evening commitment with an actual qualification at the end!). This month i’ve decided to do the challenge with a paintbrush/a few different paintbrushes/any paintbrush i can find!
our new designs are out - and we have some lovely new cards just in time for valentines day
These new designs are eco friendly, designed, printed and finished in the UK, and sized at 115 x 115 mm.
HAPPY new year!
I’m joining in with the january drawing challenge set up by @ellolovey
- it’s nice to get myself drawing everyday (even though I’m 5 days late starting!) and getting new ideas along the way.
this time of year it’s even more tricky to balance work, family time, and time with friends. Work gets silly-ly busy - and lizzy and I work most evenings and weekends (it tends to be 7 days a week for us through most of november and december). If we’re not at work, then we’re thinking we should be (or just thinking about it), knowing that the orders and work will be building up. And it’s always this time of year that things go wrong - this year (although we’ve totally loved the snow) it has put us back a couple of days because of postage issues, one of our printing machines has been a bit temperamental, and we always get colds and poorliness-es, and it’s also the time of year when we get LOTS of last minute jobs which are stressful to fit in, and we always get annoyed with each other… BUT it is ALWAYS lots of fun, and we love it, and it’s also the time (at the busiest time, of course), that I like to come up with lovely new design ideas! I seem to dream about them, or wake up with them! And this year - it’s the Grandma’s heart apron or bag - it’s really lovely and I think it will put a great big smile on grandma’s face (or nana, nan, granny, gran, nanny, nannie)
:: https://alicepalace.myshopify.com/products/personalised-hearts-canvas-bag
The Silver Birch Children’s Trust is a charity to help families pay for therapy and other services. They wanted a fairly simple, easy to read logo, to include a silver birch tree motif, and the use of grey/silver colours.
The chosen logo design includes a drawing I did of a silver birch tree, with spring like colours to indicate growth, and hand created lettering.
Christmas is well and truly underway here at the ap studio - our last ordering date is wed 20th Dec and all orders will be posted 1st class the next day (which is royal mail’s last day for normal first class post).
here’s a few Christmas gift ideas… our personalised cycling storage bag is in the notonthehighstreet christmas gift guide, and it’s perfect for any cycling fan in your family
I created the illustrations for this book called Desmond’s Dragon by Anne Stairmand; Imagine finding a dragon outside your bedroom window one night, just like Desmond! Follow the adventures Desmond has with his dragon when he takes him to school.
‘Fantastic book with beautiful illustration. My daughter loves this book and we have to read it every night before bed!’ Sarah, 05/10/17
Halloween is celebrated more and more here - straddling the line between fall and winter, plenty and paucity, life and death, Halloween is a time of celebration and superstition. It is thought to have originated with the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain, when people would light bonfires and wear costumes to ward off roaming ghosts.
