gooseberrymoon

Just my type {Cooper Black}

2012-02-10T17:48:00.000Z

Not sure that many designers would come out of the closet and admit to being a fan of Cooper Black, and don't get me wrong it's not in my top ten favourite fonts and quite possibly not in my top 20 but anyway, I definitely have a soft spot for it. With its rounded serifs and its simple, curvy style, to me it looks like it was designed in the 60s, when in fact it was designed in the early 1920s by Oswald Bruce Cooper. The font was made popular by its appearance on the cover of the Beach Boys' Pet Sounds album in 1966 and then it was used everywhere! You only need to google 'cooper black' to see it was on album covers, shop facias, magazines (some particularly dodgy ones), newspaper headlines, posters etc.

Image sources: Iceland van, Easy Jet Planes, Garfield book, The Black Keys Album, The Beach Boys Album, Doors Album

Cooper Black has quite a colourful history and a book has been published showing many of the ways it has been used by designers over the years. To find out even more about this font take a look at this short film.

Image source

I've spotted Cooper Black put to good use a couple of times this week, firstly in the White Stuff Spring catalogue and on the packaging of Spicentice.

Image source

Both these examples prove that when used in the right way and coupled with the right fonts, this bold, dated and friendly font can be beautiful. And whats good enough for White Stuff and all that!

Real weddings {Huma & Richard}

2012-02-06T14:18:00.001Z

I Love the colours Huma and Richard picked for their wedding stationery. Burnt orange for the wedding invitations teamed with raspberry pink for the Mehndi invites, both printed on Ivory textured card in my Sprig design.

Just my type {infographics}

2012-02-03T17:57:00.003Z

This the first in a series of posts exploring my growing obsession with fonts and typography. Font selection and good typesetting is so important for invitations I design, and therefore I've become aware of it all around me from the fonts used on shop fronts to the typesetting in my children's story books. So in a quest to perfect my own typography skills I'm going to share any typographic inspiration and font discoveries here on my blog.

I've learnt so much already from these infographics that I've found via Pinterest (my other obsession!). Click on the link above each graphic for the image source.

Periodic table

Type guide

34 typographic sins

50 most popular typefaces in the world

Today I love...

2012-01-30T20:30:00.000Z

... the patterns on my window from the frost.

Real Weddings {Laura & Kevin}

2012-01-27T12:49:00.000Z

Laura and Kevin choose a colour palette of lilacs for their butterfly stationery for their summer wedding last year.

Wedding invitation samples

2012-01-20T15:17:00.001Z

I love being asked to create my stationery in colours I've not used for that design before. And today I've sent off three samples to three brides all requesting the same design in a different colour, and I think they all look perfect. Each of the colours were selected from my colour palette below, which other colour do you think would look great with this design?

Duck egg

Plum

Teal

Meet the maker on Frankly

2012-01-19T19:42:00.000Z

I've been featured in Frankly magazine over on Folksy. For a little bit of an insight into gooseberrymoon you can read the interview here.

A double bonus is that I'm also featured seller on the homepage of Folksy!

Discover Flintshire

2012-01-13T14:49:00.000Z

Yesterday evening I attended a lovely get-together at Discover Flintshire Visitor Centre in my home town of Mold, North Wales. The Visitor Centre has recently re-opened after a refurbishment, and it looks fantastic. As well as being an information centre they stock products from local designers and my notecards just happen to be stocked there!

The light, bright display units really show everything off to their full loveliness

I was lucky enough to meet fellow Folksy sellers Jen and Steve from Loglike whose products looked fantastic as you can see below.

My notecards sit proudly alongside greetings cards from many talented designers including another Folksy seller, Ello Design, and local letterpress printers, Blush Publishing. I'm so glad I met the ladies from Blush as I'm seriously considering having some of my wedding stationery available as letterpress!

Some of my favourite pieces on display are these white homeware ceramics by Jenny Murray.

Sleepy owl Christening invitations

2012-01-07T20:21:00.001Z

I've been working on a custom order for some Christening invitations. This order was particularly special as Susan and Lee, the proud parents, were my second bride and groom that I created stationery for and I'm beyond thrilled that they came back for more!

Happy New Year!

2012-01-06T18:26:00.002Z

Happy new year everyone. I'm a bit late I know but it takes me so long to get back to normal after the Christmas holidays; getting back into the daily routine of getting the children to school, work, taking the decs down, getting the house back to some kind of normality (although there is still a pile of toys sitting behind me that need homes - I just won't turn around). Although I've had no choice but to get straight back to it with a few custom orders to complete which I'll share in the next few weeks along with some of the work I did last year that I've been so bad at posting here.

We were lucky enough to spend our new year break with friends in beautiful Aberdaron on the Llyn Peninsula, North Wales. I've just been sorting through the photos and thought I'd share some so you can see how gorgeous it is there even in the bleak winter months.

Christmas 2011

2011-12-27T23:03:00.000Z

Hope you've all had a lovely Christmas. I've had a great one, enjoying time with family and friends, eating, playing and watching Christmas TV - perfect. Here's a teeny snapshot of my Christmas.

I'd like to say a big thanks to all my customers, blog/twitter/facebook followers and everyone else who has supported me throughout the year. I am so appreciative of all the motivation you've given me through sales and supportive comments. THANK YOU X

See you in 2012!

Perfect packaging {Christmas wrap}

2011-12-20T20:19:00.001Z

I'm feeling a little smug at the moment as all my wrapping is done and sitting under the tree. I know it's pretty close to Christmas and is probably quite normal to be finished, but this never happens as I'm quite a last minute person and am normally still Christmas shopping around about now.

I looked on Pinterest for some gift wrap inspiration and found loads. Here's some of my favourites.

Credits
The Haystack Needle
Source unknown for the spotty and stripy gift wrap
Belle and Boo Etsy shop
Spreddecor

As seen on notonthehighstreet

2011-12-19T19:47:00.000Z

I've just seen an email from notonthehighstreet.com which reminded me I'd not shared my news here on my blog. My snowflake notecards have been used as a prop to promote the notonthehighstreet.com gift vouchers. How cool is that! So far they've been featured on the back page of their most recent mailer, which is also available online, on the homepage of the website and on the email that went out today. Just a shame I've had to close my shop for Christmas - oh well.

All things paper - Christmas paper chains

2011-12-13T22:17:00.000Z

Can't believe how close Christmas is getting. I feel like I'm way behind, still so much to do - presents to buy and wrap, cards to write. At least the decorations are up though so thought I'd share some pretty paper chains that I've pinned over on Pinterest.

Photo credits:

1. Goodhousekeeping
2. Decorative Country Living
3. Ormolu
4. Cox & Cox

colour inspiration {palette No. 14}

2011-11-04T21:28:00.001Z

Inspiration board - pumpkin patch

2011-10-26T12:02:00.002+01:00

Image credits: Pumpkin wedding table - Oncewed | Pumpkin patch blackboard - Intimateweddings.com | Doily Pumpkin - Emmalinebride.com | Glass and candle centrepiece - via pinterest original source unknown | paper lanterns - Susan Jackson Photography | Glitter pumpkins - The Wedding Decorator | Hair accessory - Blanche at Etsy | Cake - The Wedding Planning Institute

All images via Pinterest

Gooseberrymoon featured design - Sprig in burnt orange

Christmas cards

2011-10-14T21:58:00.000+01:00

I've got a bit of a thing for lined envelopes, it's a bit like having a nice lining in a jacket - not everyone gets to see it but you know it's there and it just makes it that bit more special and lovely. So for a little bit of special I've teamed my Robins Christmas cards with matching candy striped lined envelopes. Available in my notonthehighstreet.com shop.

Colour inspiration {palette No. 13}

2011-09-17T20:30:00.002+01:00

New logo

2011-09-16T18:59:00.001+01:00

I've finally got round to redesigning my logo to what I think is a cleaner and more elegant take on what I had originally which you can see in this blog post and represents my design style a little more. I've lived with it fore a few days and still love it so it's a keeper (until I get bored of it again), hope you like it too.

Real weddings - Ninka and Paul

2011-09-05T17:08:00.003+01:00

I was lucky enough to be asked to create Ninka and Paul's wedding stationery for their summer wedding. It was a bit of collaboration, I created the stationery around the cute bride and groom that was drawn by one of Ninka's friends. Ninka and Paul got married at the beautiful St. Wilfred Church in Mobberley on a perfect sunny day at the beginning of June this year. The day was captured by the very talented photographers over at CG Weddings.

All images | CG Weddings

Colour inspiration {palette No. 12}

2011-08-30T17:19:00.000+01:00

Real weddings - Julia & Mark

2011-08-24T18:33:00.002+01:00

Wedding stationery colour palette

2011-08-22T11:02:00.001+01:00

After a mad-crazy summer of wedding stationery orders (which I'll share on my blog soon) things have slowed right down here and allowed me to play around the things I never get chance to do, like this colour palette. I can spend hours (days!) playing around with colour combinations and finding just the right shade, so have come up with a palette of favourites. I can see endless colour combinations and hope it will give bride's-to be colour inspiration.

Thank you tags

2011-07-18T14:12:00.001+01:00

Today is the last day of the summer term in my children's school. It seems like an end of an era as Fin will be starting juniors and Ruby will start full time school come September. I'm feeling a little sad about it, everybody says how quick children grow up but I never thought it would go as quick as it has! Anyway, we gave the teachers and teaching assistants a little present each to say thank you and I adorned the little glass jar candles with a thank you tag that the children wrote on the back of - all nine of them! I thought I'd share them as I think they would make lovely favour tags for a wedding or party.

Colour inspiration {palette No. 11}

2011-07-06T18:58:00.001+01:00

40 favourites

2011-07-04T19:20:00.001+01:00

Last week I had a few orders for these spotty poster invitations. I've worked like crazy to get them all done and feel so much better after sending last two orders off today.

I think the popularity came from them being on the forty favourites over on notonthehighstreet.com

I also had some requests for a blue version for the boys, so here it is and available in my notonthehighstreet.com shop now.

Perfect packaging {gift bags}

2011-06-17T21:21:00.000+01:00

These gorgeous brown paper gift bags would make great wedding favours. Click on the link below to find out more.

Image credit
The party studio blog via Pinterest

All things paper {for the love of paper doilies}

2011-06-13T10:55:00.000+01:00

Colour inspiration {palette No. 10}

2011-06-10T21:26:00.002+01:00

Mumpreneur website award

2011-06-06T19:00:00.002+01:00

My website has been given an award by Mumpreneur! To earn the award the website is scored on design, navigation, ease of use, content and overall presentation. I'm chuffed to bits that my little old website has earned the gold award.

Ruby's birthday invitations and party bags

2011-06-03T20:47:00.004+01:00

My new online shop

2011-05-05T21:08:00.004+01:00

My notonthehighstreet.com shop is now live. I'm really pleased with how it looks, and chuffed to bits that I got my first sale not long after it went live. A great start - fingers crossed it continues.

Colour inspiration {palette No. 9}

2011-05-02T22:19:00.004+01:00

Today I love {Lilac}

2011-04-25T22:00:00.004+01:00

Image credits | Tony Jones + me

All things paper {paper flowers}

2011-04-21T20:56:00.007+01:00

Beautiful paper flowers! Click through on the links below to find out more about each item. Four of them link though to tutorials on how to make them.

Sourced from (top to bottom)

1. Paper roses from repurposed book | Dragonflies on Etsy
2. BLOM Paper Flower | Notonthehighstreet.com
3. Simple white paper flowers (tutorial) | Craftstylish
4. Brown Paper Bag Flower (tutorial) | Ecogreen Crafts
5. Paper flower (tutorial) | Dozi Design
6. Kusudama paper flowers (tutorial) | WhipUp

Colour inspiration {palette No. 8}

2011-04-10T21:49:00.002+01:00

Perfect packaging {gift wrap}

2011-04-06T22:01:00.002+01:00

Here's the first of a new series on one of my favourite things, packaging. From clever gift wrap ideas to inspirational package designs. As it's my blog I thought I'd show some examples of how my stationery is wrapped for the first post!

Colour inspiration {palette No. 7}

2011-04-01T10:35:00.000+01:00

All things paper {paper lampshades}

2011-03-29T21:42:00.006+01:00

I've trawled the internet to find some of the best paper lampshades. I love the DIY cocktail umbrella shade, not sure I'd want it in my house but it would perfect in a teenage girls bedroom. What a genius idea the world map is too!

Sourced from:
1. MAR origami lampshade Rentaro Nishimura
2. White Butterfly & Flower Lampshade Design home & garden
3. DIY cocktail umbrella lampshade - Craftbits.com
4. Star paper lampshade - The Fair Trade Shop
5. Paper pendant lampshade MN*LS via Limoncello
6. World map lampshade - Little Bumpkins

Back from my holidays

2011-03-28T14:03:00.004+01:00

I'm now fully back into the swing of things after my lovely break at Center Parcs' Sherwood Village. It was great to spend time without electronic devices, except for my phone and camera of course!, and have time to think and makes plans. One of the big decisions I made was to finally give in and join notonthehighstreet.com, I've now got access to build my shop but have no idea when I will find any time to actually get it done.

I did use my phone to catch up with some of my favourite blogs which gave me inspiration to come up with new ideas for this blog. My plan is to do more frequent postings which will include the regular inspirational colour palettes, 'All things paper' - which showcases other paper artists work, a new feature which will focus on one of my favourite things, 'packaging' and of course all gooseberrymoon news and new designs.

Colour inspiration {palette No. 6}

2011-03-07T13:03:00.002Z

Dreaming of sunny days!

Real weddings - Julia & Mark {invitation 1st concepts}

2011-03-05T14:38:00.004Z

1st design concepts for Julia and Marks wedding invitations.

Colour inspiration {palette No. 5}

2011-02-27T14:48:00.003Z

Colour inspiration {palette No. 4}

2011-02-26T11:27:00.003Z

Photograph taken at beautiful Beddgelert, North Wales.

This week I've mainly been...

2011-02-20T20:06:00.009Z

...making notebooks. I've been printing covers, counting sheets of paper, cutting the paper and card to size, drilling holes, binding with ribbon, trimming the pages, printing and cutting the tags, paper punching the hole and then threading on to the ribbon and finally tying in a bow and packaging in a cello sleeve. These little tinkers are so time consuming I often wonder if they're worth my while making. I do love them though and the feedback I get about them is always so lovely, here's a few to remind me why I make them:

gorgeous. just right for popping in my handbag. beautifully packaged.

Another lovely notebook, perfect as a stocking filler. The seller was helpful, and the parcel arrived beautifully wrapped.

Absolutely beautiful notebook - bought for a secret santa present for someone who cited 'list making' as a hobby... it's going to take huge self control to parcel it up and not keep it for myself! Thank you so much :)

Beautiful notebooks, packaged so nicely that I didn't want to open them.

I still haven't any listed in my Folksy shop after selling out over Christmas, the huge batch I've been making is for a trade order but will hopefully have a few extras to list soon.

Colour inspiration

2011-02-15T20:16:00.000Z

Making magazine

2011-02-13T15:12:00.011Z

Having waited over a week for Making magazine to land on my doorstep, I couldn't wait any longer and purchased a copy from the newsagents yesterday (I bet my freebie will turn up tomorrow!). It took me two lots of flicking through before I found my personalised teacher notecards on page 11. They're featured on the 'crafty buys' page, for sophisticated pieces for the study. What a great magazine it is too. Full of crafty makes and inspiration.

Colour inspiration

2011-02-10T18:50:00.003Z

Colour inspiration

2011-02-07T21:38:00.003Z

New design - Marmalade cat

2011-01-30T12:29:00.003Z

It's been a while since I created a new design. So here's my latest, a gorgeous marmalade cat. Coming soon to my Folksy shop in packs of 4 notecards and manilla envelopes.

Site of the day

2011-01-16T15:29:00.005Z

I've been redesigning my website since the end of last year, grabbing any spare minute to get it done (which have been few and far between!). I've used moonfruit to create the site, which has been really simple to use for both creating and editing, and has enabled me to create a website that I'm really pleased with. I finally put it live a couple of days ago, and have been rewarded by being moonfruit's 'site of the day'(today)! Can you believe it, yes 'SITE OF THE DAY'.

Happy new year!

2011-01-14T16:20:00.007Z

Happy (belated) new year. After a lovely New year break in mid Wales I'm trying my hardest to get back into work mode.

I've eased myself in gently by creating some of my designs onto manilla card. These are now available in my Folksy shop.

Merry Christmas

2010-12-23T22:20:00.002Z

I'm so looking forward to Christmas, the celebrations can start now that all orders have been finished and delivered. My online shops are closed until the beginning of January and I'm going to have a relaxing break with my family until the new year. I've had a busy year and am looking forward to the next one, hoping it's just as manic. I'd like to wish all my customers and blog followers a Merry Christmas and a happy new year!

This year's children's Christmas card

2010-12-14T20:27:00.004Z

Each year my children, Finlay 7(tomorrow!) and Ruby 3, draw lovely Christmas pictures that I scan and print as Christmas cards for their grandparents. This year they drew beautiful Christmas trees.

Here's their snowmen from last year...

and Finlay's father Christmas and Christmas tree from 2008

Real weddings - Julia & Mark {save the dates}

2010-12-02T21:19:00.003Z

Julia and Mark choose the the Cow Parsley design for their save the dates. I'm really pleased how they've turned out after spending every spare minute last week printing, cutting, rounding corners and packing - all 60 of them.

Craft Fayre

2010-11-28T13:51:00.000Z

I'll be at...

Folksy festive sampler

2010-11-27T19:40:00.003Z

This year's Folksy festive sampler is full of gorgeous gift ideas from very talented designer/makers over on Folksy. I'm made up to have my personalised owl notecards featured in the '£10.00 and under' section.

Featured item on Folksy

2010-11-10T22:01:00.003Z

The Folksy homepage has a special remembrance theme this week and I'm thrilled to have my poppy field birthday cards included.

Absalut Ink Tattoo Parlour - gift vouchers

2010-11-01T21:49:00.005Z

Recent commission for gift vouchers for Absalut Ink Tattoo Parlour. Black pigment ink printed on heavyweight natural white card, teamed with black envelopes. Check out Hefin's work at the Absalut Ink Facebook group.

Sprig wedding stationery

2010-10-24T20:45:00.003+01:00

Here's a selection of various pieces of wedding stationery in my 'sprig' design that I've put together for a bride looking for elegant and simplistic stationery.

Atelier

2010-10-08T20:33:00.008+01:00

Atelier contemporary craft gallery is the first bricks and mortar shop to stock gooseberrymoon products. I've been asked by a few galleries and shops in the past and have always said no, partly because I never thought I was ready to start supplying my stationery in large(ish) quantities, and also I didn't think it would be worth my while as the commission is always so high. However, Atelier was a little different, firstly because Tracey, the owner, wouldn't take no for an answer, and secondly she was one of my first ever customers to buy from my Folksy shop and I really wanted to give some support back.

Tracey worked so hard to transform an empty shell into an amazing gallery space in a short space of time, you can check out her blog to see images of the before and after. The gallery opened its doors to the public mid July this year and I am so pleased at how well my stationery is selling. I'm now working on the 3rd order for the gallery and have lots of lovely notebooks and notecards to finish and pack ready to be sent down to Barnstaple.

I'd love to go and visit the gallery, but Devon is way too far from North Wales to be able to just pop by! Maybe I'll have to schedule in a holiday to lovely North Devon. You can find out more about Atelier by visiting the website.

October Folkfest

2010-10-03T21:06:00.003+01:00

As a personal challenge I've joined the Folksy daily listings club for October. This will be a huge challenge for me but I'm hoping it will make me more organised on the listings and promoting front. It's also a bit of an experiment to see if it makes any difference to the number of sales I get, I'll compare at the end of the month and let you know.

Here are some of my favourite Halloween items listed by fellow October Folkfesters over the last few days. Click on the images to find out more.

Vintage Style Halloween Potion Gift Tags x 9 £2.25
Vintage Dreams

Hanging witch hat ornament £2.50
MudMeddling

Halloween Spiders £1.50
Diomo Glass

Real weddings - Julia & Mark {save the dates}

2010-09-21T20:48:00.007+01:00

First set of designs for Julia and Mark's save the dates.

Colour palettes - Frosted pink and sea green

2010-08-19T19:34:00.003+01:00

I've been playing on COLOURlovers and created a couple of palettes perfect for wedding stationery. I've applied them to my Winter Cow Parsley design to illustrate how pretty they are.

Color by COLOURlovers

Color by COLOURlovers

Seedheads notebook

2010-07-28T21:18:00.004+01:00

In need of a new design for my notebooks I set to work and doodled this seedhead design which looks great grouped together to make a surface pattern.

My new seedheads design has been digitally printed onto teal or purple card with black pigment ink and filled with 20 pages of crisp white paper to create a cute A6 notebook. Will be available in my Folksy shop soon.

Custom design

2010-07-25T21:48:00.004+01:00

Minty rabbit flying a kite with a custom message blowing in the wind. Printed in soft greens, blues and browns on a natural white card. This design will be available in my Folksy shop soon with an option to choose whatever message you'd like.

Notecards gallery

2010-07-17T20:27:00.002+01:00

I've added some new pics of notecards on my Flickr gallery, so thought I'd share.

New designs

2010-07-12T21:36:00.006+01:00

A quick peak at two of my latest designs coming soon to my Folksy shop. Both designs will be available as a pack of four notecards.

First up is Russian Dolls. I've changed the colour palette and the configuration of the colours on this design sooooo many times, but I'm finally happy and the colours print so well. They're just so pretty!

Winter Cow Parsley has been created from one of my illustrations and digitally coloured in soft muted blues and greens, and a touch of brown. This design sits perfectly along side my other floral designs that have the same feel of simplicity.

Diary 2011 project

2010-07-04T21:39:00.004+01:00

I recently discovered the Diary 2011 project and just had to contribute. I chose 30th June page to design and here it is...

There are still some available dates but the deadline for artwork is 7th July so you need to be quick if you'd like to design a page. To find out more vist diary 2010 project.

All done and dusted

2010-06-21T20:55:00.005+01:00

Had a busy week or so creating and packing a wholesale order for a brand new (not yet open) gallery that will be stocking my notecards and notebooks. I'll blog more about the gallery soon.

And the last of the huge wedding stationery order I've been working on for Peter and Gemma has been finished and delivered. Peter and Gemma have been fantastic to work with, I'm sure they'll have the most amazing day on Friday and I wish them all the very best for their future together.

Real weddings - Gemma & Peter part 3

2010-06-11T20:29:00.003+01:00

The seating plan. Two options.

Real weddings - Anna & Craig

2010-06-07T19:37:00.002+01:00

Just been sorting my image files and come across some pics of stationery I designed and printed last year for Anna and Craig. Their theme was black and white with a splash of bright pink, and wanted their stationery to have a simple design in black incorporating gerberas.

Weekly round up

2010-05-30T21:36:00.002+01:00

It's been a busy week, and I've still got loads to finish off. Thought I'd share a few bits that I've been working on this past week.

Peter and Gemma's wedding is now less than a month away, and as well as these table numbers I've got a few more on the day items to do for their wedding which I'll hopefully share next week - need to get cracking on!

List maker's notebooks ready to be bound with ribbon.

A custom order for 60th birthday invitations using my red poppyfield design.

New - mustard poppyfield notecards

2010-05-20T20:57:00.003+01:00

I'm loving mustard yellow at the moment so thought I'd try and find the perfect shade for my poppies. Will be listed very soon in my online shops!

Birthday cards

2010-05-20T20:24:00.004+01:00

Birthday cards for my beautiful goddaughters. I changed Minty's dress to match Catrin and Nel's favourite colours.

Another featured item on Folksy

2010-05-12T20:20:00.003+01:00

They're like buses, none for months and months then two in a row! Thank you Folksy for featuring my butterfly birthday cards on the home page.

Photo gallery

2010-05-11T20:00:00.005+01:00

My amazing husband has added a photo gallery to my website using my Flickr photo stream. So now everytime I upload to Flickr, my website will be automatically updated - perfect, I love anything that saves me little time!

Featured item on Folksy

2010-05-09T20:16:00.006+01:00

Thrilled to have my stem notecards as a featured item on Folksy - sold a couple of packs too!

From Britain with Love

2010-05-07T21:50:00.006+01:00

Gooseberrymoon is now listed on the From Britain with Love online directory. The inspirational online shopping guide for all things beautiful and British made.

List maker's notebooks - more colours

2010-05-02T20:23:00.002+01:00

New colours added to my line of list maker's notebooks: pink, purple, olive as well as the original brown, now available in my online shop and on Folksy. New patterns coming soon.

Colour inspiration - Peacock and bracken

2010-04-30T12:31:00.002+01:00

A couple of colour palettes for creative inspiration.

Color by COLOURlovers

Color by COLOURlovers

Real weddings - Gemma & Peter part 2

2010-04-27T21:19:00.004+01:00

80 order of service covers designed, printed, folded, checked (a dozen times!) and packed ready to be delivered to the lovely bride and groom.

List maker's notebooks

2010-04-19T20:22:00.005+01:00

New list maker's notebooks available in my online shop and on Folksy. These tall, slim, handmade notebooks have doodle flowers printed in chocolate brown pigment ink onto 100% recycled manilla card, bound and fastened with a dark brown satin ribbon - perfect for anyone who likes to make lists.

Colour inspiration - St Davids window colour palette

2010-04-14T21:02:00.002+01:00

Latest colour palette inspired by a photo of a stained glass window taken at St Davids Cathedral in beautiful Pembrokeshire on our hols last year.

Color by COLOURlovers

My workspace

2010-04-09T20:31:00.005+01:00

In response to a thread over on the Folksy forum I thought I'd share some pics of my workspace - these were taken on a tidy-ish day! I'm a bit nosey and love looking at other peoples studio spaces, so if you've blogged about your workspace please feel free to add a link in the comments below.

Introducing my new online shop

2010-04-07T19:51:00.005+01:00

I thought it would be a good idea to have my very own independent online shop as well as my little corner of Folksy. I really like the idea that customers who prefer not to register with websites will be able to purchase gooseberrymoon paper goods from this new online shop.

All things paper - featured designer {Lia Griffith}

2010-04-06T20:40:00.001+01:00

I recently stumbled upon these gorgeous paper dresses by Lia Griffith. Papier Couture is a collection of carefully sculpted dresses made primarily from paper. Visit Lia's website Papier Couture to see more.

Image credits | Papier Couture

Her Little Place

2010-03-24T16:38:00.000Z

A selection of gooseberrymoon notecards are available from chic online boutique, Her Little Place, run by journalist Huma. Her Little Place specialises in pretty and unique cards, and gorgeously packaged home made cookies.

Huma is brilliant in getting media coverage for Her Little Place, the latest write up being in this month's Where London. And I'm thrilled that they included a pic of my owl notecards.

Real weddings - Susan & Lee

2010-03-21T21:17:00.002Z

Here's some pictures of wedding stationery I created last year for Susan and Lee. Beautiful spring blossom perfect for their Spring wedding.

All things paper - featured designer {Liz Hamman}

2010-03-20T14:42:00.002Z

Beautiful paper jewellery by the very talented Liz Hamman, a mixed media artist from Cheshire who makes stunning handmade jewellery from paper using origami techniques. I just love, love, love the goldilocks and the three bears bangle which is available along with all her other designs from makers online.

Colour inspiration - daffodil colour palette

2010-03-11T20:57:00.000Z

Spring is on its way! I bought my first bunch of daffs this year, they're so bright and cheerful - especially when the suns shining. I've filled a vase on my kitchen table full of sunny yellow and cream daffodils which inspired this colour palette.

Color by COLOURlovers

Colour inspiration - mustard loveliness palette

2010-03-03T21:16:00.000Z

I've started to create my own colour palettes on colourlovers.com where people from around the world share colour ideas and inspiration.

This is my first colour palette that has been inspired by the 'colours of Folksy - mustard' blog post I did showcasing talented Folksy designer makers.

Color by COLOURlovers

All things paper - featured designer {Bookity}

2010-03-02T20:28:00.000Z

Thought I'd add a new feature to showcase designers who design and create with paper. First up is Bookity whose work I love. They create unique gifts made from altered books, from bags and wallets made from book covers to hanging ornaments and bunting from book pages. Below is just a small selection of the designs available in their Folksy shop.

Real weddings - Gemma & Peter

2010-02-02T20:02:00.001Z

Here's a peak at my latest wedding stationery order, which has now been packed and delivered to the lovely bride and groom to be. The request was for my butterfly design in a cool grey to coordinate with the silver theme of the wedding. The day invitations have been teamed with matching information cards complete with a cut-off RSVP postcard.

New design - dandelions

2010-01-30T21:30:00.000Z

My dandelion design, originally designed for wedding stationery, is now available as notecards from my folksy shop. Set of four notecards printed in fern green onto white linen textured card with natural craft brown envelopes.

Facebook - arrggghhhh

2010-01-26T22:03:00.000Z

They really don't make creating a business fan page easy do they! After more hours of faffing around in facebook I've had to redo my fan page. I'd originally done it separate to my profile page but soon discovered it was better to have them connected. Thank you to those who fanned me yesterday but that page is now deleted and the new one is here. Now I've just got to get to grips with navigating between my profile page and my fan page.

Facebook - at last!

2010-01-25T22:01:00.000Z

It's been on my list of things to do for ages and I've finally got round to doing it. I've just (after spending hours trying) created a fan page for gooseberrymoon. Still got lots to add, but hey its a start.

Wedding stationery - sprig

2010-01-23T18:38:00.000Z

Another new design for 2010. Sprig in an autumn colour palette of sage, blue and cocoa.

Wedding stationery - Butterfly berry

2010-01-19T17:34:00.001Z

A new colour scheme for my butterfly design. Beautiful berry colours printed on a natural white flat card invitation and on manilla card for the order of service. This design and colour combination is already available as notecards in my Folksy shop.

Wedding stationery for 2010

2010-01-18T20:44:00.000Z

New wedding stationery design for 2010. Dandelion in a scrumptious fern green on natural white card. More designs coming over the next few days!