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.

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!

Birds, trees and Mother's Day glee!

Gareth and I looked in our diary and realised how soon Mother's Day is in the UK and Ireland when you take into account the 7-10 days for cards to arrive on time. While I should be spending all day drawing sweet and charming Mums I took a little break to draw this birdy card. It will be part of a new range of Able and Game cards featuring birds and flowers for when you want a pretty card that doesn't have an occasion attached to it.

In the mean time, if you're in the UK or Ireland and are thinking about Mother's Day we have three cards available in the Etsy shop with more to come.

I'm concerned that you're able to communicate with birds!