Christmas Tree

 

This was a Christmas present for a friend:

Ickabog Rocks

To celebrate the release of the new J.K. Rowling book, The Ickabog, I painted some rocks to give out with pre-orders of the book:

I actually did 10 different versions with different background colours.
And didn't photograph them!

Some motifs from the cover

From a previous event, two rocks for two of our favourite customers:

Luna Lovegood

Fawkes the Phoenix

There's a Witch in your Book

 

For Hallowe'en this year, we gave out rocks from a bucket instead of hiding them in the shop.

Most were older but I painted these little witches from Tom Fletcher's book, There's a Witch in your Book:

Bookshops and Libraries

 A friend was leaving work and they asked me to paint the shop where she worked:

Southwold Books

And then I painted some more local shops

Waterstones Lowestoft

Waterstones UEA

Beccles Books

Another Waterstones Lowestoft

And a library:

Southwold Library

More Mini Houses

 

More houses for our Fairy Village in the woods

These were all based on real houses I found online and made more magical

The Village in place in the woods

Rainbow Rocks

 In the Summer everyone was putting rainbows in their windows.
So I painted rainbow rocks.

Mini Houses

We are planning a rock village this Summer so these are the first houses. 

Alice in Wonderland Exploding Card 2

This is the second Alice card I made, this one was for a work colleague.

A couple of videos to show the card

 

Everlasting Alice Card

This is an "everlasting" card which you keep turning and turning to show different pictures

Step 1

Step 2

Step 3

Step 4

Step 5

This is the envelope I made for it

Alice in Wonderland Exploding Card

This is an Alice themed exploding card I made for a friend's Birthday

I used Alice themed scrapbook pages

And some gorgeous pink and purple ribbons to tie it

 

Unicorn Exploding Card

 This is an exploding book I made for my friend's daughter who loves unicorns.

The books are very simple to make.

You need four squares of card folded in quarters and one diagonal.

Stick the squares together, add the pictures and fold them up.

Ribbon ties to hold them together.

Here are the pictures I drew to decorate the squares:

World Book Day 2020

The first four are based on this year's World Book Day titles:

Bing and The Evil Pea (from Supertato)

Amelia Fang and Dogman

The Ten Little Bookworms by Mike Brownlow

Harry Potter Day 2020

To celebrate Harry Potter Day in February, I did a batch of themed rocks which we hid in the shop:

And this one as a prize for the Best Dressed Wizard