New illustrated greeting cards for birthdays, bat-lovers and wild swimmers!

Here are some of my new card designs that are available on Thortful - and here’s a 30% off link for your first purchase - yay! Click on the images to see them on Thortful. All of these designs and many of my others start out as hand-illustrated originals for my friends/family and with a little digital pimpage I spruce them up ready for printing and offering to a wider audience.

Does an imaginary pond surrounded by wildflowers and inhabiting nudey peeps and birdies sound like fun? After months of covid lockdown, (somewhat socially-distanced) freedom is on the agenda! #Freeyourbits.

Have a wild birthday card for nature-loving wild things!

Birthday greetings brought to you by a couple of onesie-clad pop-drinking elves - available age numbers from 1 to 10 on the balloon.

Happy birthday elves card

Pardon my French, but I’m crazy about you.
And bats.
I’ve been partial to the adoration of bat populations since accommodating a mother and baby bat on my cabana ceiling in Nicaragua. Followed by attending bat talks, clutching sonar detectors on bat punting safaris, and drawing the little blighters left, right, and centre.

Batshit crazy illustrated card

Let me know what you think - and come say howdy on Instagram where you’ll find me @makingstrangers with more drawings and lots of sketchbook work.

New greeting cards - stay in touch by snail mail

Introducing my new cards! My ‘stay safe, take care’ and ‘thanks for everything’ cards use the same illustration with different text and were originally a watercolour postcard I made and sent to a friend during the coronavirus lockdown. As people are less able to communicate in person at this isolating time, I also made the design into a free download/printable image for anyone to use (see my free downloads section) - that version has a blank banner so you can write your own message on the front.

The two versions pictured here are available via my Thortful shop now and also my new stockist, the bricks and mortar shop Daily Bread Co-operative in Cambridge in a few days.

Stay safe, take care, and happy posting!

Nature journal & design sites

Hello!
I’ve been squirrelling away behind the scenes uploading my illustrations to websites such as Redbubble, Society6 and Zazzle.

These platforms do everything from taking your product orders, to printing and manufacturing the items, to delivering the orders.

My most recent illustration, available as the printed front cover of ‘my nature book’, a sketchbook/journal for drawing nature finds, mindful musings, fungi identifications, or what ever one decides to create within.

The designers receive a commission from each product sold. Orders are anonymous and are sent directly from the company to the customer.

The range of products on offer varies from site to site. The products I’m personally offering with my designs are varied too depending on the format and size of the original image files and what the fit onto. If it wasn’t for these sites I wouldn’t be able to offer my images on e.g. side tables or duvet covers which is fun!

‘There’s gnome place like home’ cushion. Click image to see listing on Redbubble.

Time for tea? Click image to see listing on Redbubble.

For future reference, my online shop/product links can be found under Shop —> Stockists in the navigation menu of my website.

Thanks for looking!

New prints in my Etsy shop

Some new prints of my illustrations are now available in my Etsy shop! Click on the images to view the shop listings on Etsy.

Thanks for looking!