Ideas from Mum

The design concept for this card came from my Mum, who often likes to come up with ideas for cards and products. She said it might be nice to make a card that siblings would give their Mum together and came up with the idea for the birds all singing and the line "We love to sing your praises". I kept the design similar to the Beautiful Birds range of cards and wanted the font to be pretty handwriting. This Able and Game card is also available as part of our growing range of Mother's Day Cards. Gareth and I just checked the calender and it is just over a month away! Time goes by so fast these days.

Each in their own

Here is a new design I just finished tonight that will be added to the Beautiful Birds range of Able and Game cards. A few of the ranges only have four cards and I need to get ink to paper and make them a little bit bigger and drawing birds and patterns is one of my favourite things to draw. That and dorky boys. Gareth and I have spent a lovely Monday evening watching Buzzcocks. We both decided we want Phill Jupitus around for dinner, Mark Lamarr was good but not as good as Simon Amstell and how do we get a copy of the episode hosted by Jeremy Clarkson?

Beautiful Birds

I decided four cards was enough to form a range and so Beautiful Birds is now a range. I spent a while playing around with the colours and realised two colour combinations work really well. I think the dark and pale pink and the black with green and pink are my two favourites. I'm looking forward to making more, designing flowers and creating patterns in the birds tail and wings is really fun. They will be up on our Etsy site really soon and if you're a shop, they are already up on our wholesale site.

Oh and a big thanks to Jena over at Modish for featuring Able and Game today. Gareth just loves being called my honey!