RANKIDOODLE on ETSY

Here are some new greetings cards I have in my Rankidoodle shop on Etsy.   

Please enter the code FRIENDS1 at the checkout for 20% discount.

Visit my shop here for more cards and gifts

★ Etsy Friday ★

Three Red Apples is a lovely shop on Etsy.  

Annabelle from Plymouth, England sells Contemporary embroidered textile art & illustrations, handmade home accessories, made using a mix of vintage, recycled and new materials combined with freehand machine embroidery and appliqué.

I love how the images look framed in the sewing hoops, they would make lovely gifts and are a bargain at between £17 - £30! 

You can read more about Annabelle here and follow her on her blog here

Ahoy There!

Living by the seaside I am still loving the nautical theme that has been around in fashion for a few years.  Here are some lovely images I have been collecting on my pinterest page...

All these nautical images and more can be found here on my "Ahoy There" board on Pinterest.

♥ WEDDING WEDNESDAY - The Proposal ♥

Wedding Diary #1 - THE PROPOSAL

I LOVE "all things wedding" so I am going to start posting wedding inspiration every wednesday, simply because "Wedding Wednesday" sounds good! Here goes...

I will try to start at the very beginning, so here are some lovely and amazing proposal ideas, images and videos...

These videos are AMAZING!  Get your tissues ready...

Patrick and Kimberly (The Proposal) from Shutter Life Productions on Vimeo.

You can see all these videos and more here via Bridal Musings

WEDDING INSPIRATION

Here are some more of my wedding inspiration boards, perfect if you're planning a wedding and need some ideas. You can view all of my boards here.

I created these boards via Style me pretty which has a great build a board section where you can create boards to help plan the look of your wedding. There are 1000s of amazing wedding images of cakes, dresses, flowers etc and you can create these amazing inspiration boards using their templates and they look really professional.

Woodland wonder

Sweet Pastels

Ink & Ivory

Links to all the pictures on the boards can be found here

FAB VIDEOS

Here are some inspiring videos I have found on YouTube recently, the first is a lovely advert for Anthology mag, enjoy...

The Mulberry AW 2011/12 Ad campaign shot by Tim Walker...gorgeous!

TONI&GUY Hair Meet Wardrobe presents 20 bloggers and their stories.

 You can read all the bloogers' stories here and you can see all the videos here

★ HOME SWEET HOME ★

So Happy to be back home in lovely Scarborough!

Time for lots of nice strolls on the beach. xxx

Wedding Invites

Sorry I have been away for soooo long, things have really changed in my life, I have quit my job and decided to move back to the coast in Scarborough to be nearer to my Boyfriend, family and friends.  I am really excited about it!  I am also going to be a freelance designer!  So I will have more freedom (and hopefully money) to do the things I love doing like drawing, crafting, designing, making etc!

I have recently been busy doing wedding invites for friends, here are a few to show ya...

My lovely friend Lauras hen do itinery, day & night invites...

An upcoming Scarborough wedding with a vintage postcard style...

FAVE BLOGS ★GRAPHIC DESIGN★

Here are some of my favourite GRAPHIC DESIGN blogs...

Graphic Exchange

One of my all time favourite blogs, this showcases the very best of the best of the Graphic Design world covering all areas...

lovely package

The best packaging blog

Lovely Stationery

Same as above except all about... Stationery!

We love Typography

FAVE BLOGS ★SURFACE PATTERN★

I thought I would give you a little taster of which blogs I love, from interiors to crafts, photography and graphics...I am ADDICTED TO BLOGS! there I've said it...

Here goes...

★SURFACE PATTERN★

Print and pattern

An english pattern blog which covers all types of greetings, fabric and fashion fabrics, I check this everyday as it also has a fab job page.

Rachael Taylor designs

Rachael is a friend of mine, we worked together at Hallmark cards.  Rachael left and started her own business and is doing really well.  Not only does she design patterns for bags, phone covers, laptop skins, teatowels canvases etc she also runs a very succesful surface design course.

Pattern People

Mainly fashion fabric patterns, great for inspiration!

Paper&Cloth

A greetings company with a great contemporary style