Keeping it festive in the heat....

Phew - it's a scorcher, hey?! Seems wrong to be doing all of these festive bits right now, but hey, that's the life of a freelance designer!! (one that does cards and such like anyway!!) Here's some snapshots from my screen today...now to have a go at a little baby art; I've not dabbled in that area for quite some time, and feel it's time for a change! NEXT!!

And today I have been mostly working on.......

........Christmas!! (again!) 

Have a word!

Here's a little peek at a few more Christmas designs I've been working on recently......

Ho, Ho, Ho!

Joy to the World

And lots of lovely Christmas phrases.....

Christmas is coming....

And as usual I've been working on lots of new things for the festive season ahead of another US selling trip. Here are a couple of snippets from a character set I've been busy on....

Santa's got his skis on and has rocked up at the Antarctic!

 And this family of snowmen are having a fun-filled sledging trip!

I really enjoyed creating these guys....let's hope they find a nice new home ;)

I feel a break coming on...

....a break from Christmas, that is! As I've said before, sometimes it can get a little much working on Christmas all year round - especially when the mercury reaches the 20s and the sun is shining brightly! Time for some cheery everyday designs methinks....these latest Christmas ones have taken farrrr tooooo looooooong; a sure sign it's time for a change!

Finito!

Not to give toooo much away still, but here are the finished designs I let you have a peek at on Friday....

....now on to another two!

Christmas in the summer sun...?!??

Hmmmmm...it's a toughy, but being a designer of all things festive it tends to happen quite a lot, and boy is it a struggle sometimes! (especially when Wimbledon's on too!!) 

Though I guess this is how it feels to be Australian?!? The mini-heatwave seems to have subsided today, so it's onwards and upwards from here...take a little look at some recent work - the starting point for a new set.....

Tick, tock, tick, tock....

- that's the  sound of the clock quickly counting down to Spring Fair; I've been so swamped that I even missed my daily post yesterday; sorry about that! Here's a jolly Santa peeking round to say 'hello'..he's another one to add to the set I've been reworking....still one more wrap to go before I can move on to something different and it's Thursday afternoon already (not that I'm panicking or anything!!)

..note to self...must work faster!!!

Light at the end of the tunnel...

Boy, am I glad to have finished these two....I think the cold weather has slowed me up or something; they seemed to have taken for-ev-errrrrrr....pleased with how they turned out though; here's a little taster:

- as you can see - my snowman's a lot more polished since he last appeared on Wednesday! :)

AND.......the snow has finally stopped; BIG BIG YAY!! let's hope it stays that way...

Ho! Ho! Ho!

- Here's a jolly Santa to go with my snowman from yesterday. :)

Santa's on his way...

A scary concept, I know, but it won't be too long before this cheery fellow will be busy at work, delivering his presents...

....I've already spotted a few Christmas designs creeping into our shops - I'm sure it gets earlier every year! Only 14 weeks and 4 days to go...(!)

Santa has a new friend....

It's a week of re-colours and re-jigs, so there probably won't be a lot to post without repeating myself too much....but, here are a couple of additions to the Santa set I was working on the other week; we felt Santa needed a new friend, so in came Mr Snowman! :)

Jazz chickens and 'HoHoHo' Santas

Hey everyone, hope you all had a lovely weekend - I went to see Eddie Izzard on Saturday night at the Nottingham Arena - he was FAB; I especially loved the jazz chicken, the giraffes and the ferrel cows...VERY funny! He was on top form...despite having a cold, bless him.

I also saw my beautiful niece on Sunday - we had lots of fun! :) Her dad had helped fetch our new fireplace, and on the way back he stopped off at Costco for a few things, and found some Christmas wrap too.....it's a little old now, but it's always good to see your product out there:

......the wrap you can see here has a little claim to fame for me actually; it appeared in the Eastenders Chrismas special last year, and had a key role in the plot! Click here to see it in action....! :)

Snowman-ville

Here's a little snapshot of a wrap I've been working on to complete my snowman set....yay - all done! 

....and a wrap to go with all my jolly Santas......

Now it's on to something different; hmmmmm, what next, I wonder....?

Dancing On Ice.....eat your heart out! :)

...and the judges look impressed - Santa; what a star! :)

When Santa got stuck up the chimney....

.....he began to shout.......

.....and the little reindeer looked rather shocked!!! :)

Back to Christmas......and reality!

It's been a while since I posted any work on here.....but, finally I feel like I'm getting back into the swing of things. Here are a couple of wraps I've been working on over the past two days to co-ordinate with some bag designs I posted on here about a month ago...

Happy, smiley snowmen!

....and jolly santas!

Hot off the press!

Following my very traditional week last week, I've now moved onto the more fun stuff - characters! Here's a sneak peek at my two latest offerings......

I'm also working on a co-ordinating wrap to go with these...look out for it tomorrow (all being well!) :)

Surtex '09

Here are some cheeky Christmas characters I created for the Surtex show...