Experimenting with pens and paper

Here are some sketches of rings I bought at the antique textiles fair in manchester.
I have used black ink and pens, gold pens and a white pencil, on brown parcel paper!
I love using different medias and found paper in my work.

New Sketch, experimenting with ink

New sketch for my wedding design project, lovebirds!
Drawn with my new 0.05 fine-liners and black ink!

Beta Scarf Design Competition

I have entered two designs into this competiton!
https://www.betafashion.com/competitionratedesign.aspx?SubmissionID=4804&compID=0&filter=0

Here is one of my entries! Please Rate it on the link :)

Wedding Design, New project!

Here's a sneak peek at my new project, inspired by wedding trousseaus or bottom drawers! 

The imagery for these sketches is taken from special objects the bride may collect for her new house after she is married, and from beautiful objects or materials seen at weddings. The designs will be aimed at stationery mainly,  along with fabrics and wallpaper. ©

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Vintage shop finds...

Here are a few pictures I took for inspiration at a vintage shop in Leeds, gorgeous items!

I love carousel horses!

The cutest birdcage!

To My Valentine...

Some lovely vintage valentine's found online!

Wartime Weekend, Pickering.

Pickering War weekend is just incredible. 

Here are some of the photos from 2009 I got developed from my old olympus :)

And some from 2011, taken on my dslr.

  Me and my girlies!

 A kind soldier with myself.

 Dapper Folk.

Treasures!

 Dog in a Pram!

Salts Mill

Saltaire is such a pretty little town! So many lovely shops. Great for craft fairs etc!

'Are Jay Bargie'

Lovely Shops!

Inside Salts Mill...

Inspred by doileys...

Birdcages and roses. 

I created these designs on adobe illustrator, inspired by the repeated, delicate circular patterns on doileys 

and sent them through the laser cutter.

I used old papers and paper from music sheets.

Armchair doiley

These were all part of my experimentation for my French flea market project!

Vintage Mirrors

I also laser cut shapes into fabric, and appliquéd them.