Oh my! July!

Hello folks!

Well, the whole month of June whizzed by without a single blog entry from me. *slaps back of wrist* I've been really busy for the past month working on submissions for card companies mainly, plus a few craft projects.

The good news is, sales have been going steady for my Running Like Clockworld art print, which you can find (and order, if you so wish!) on Society 6. In case you've forgotten what that looks like, here it is:


I also won a little competition in the month of June, which was exciting! Run by Paper Bicycle through the Illustration Rally blog - I entered one of my floral patterns (the one below to be precise) and won a lovely print and water bottle. (Very handy for transporting Martini, gin and tonic, WATER in over the summer months.)


I entered a card design with this motif into the Tigerprint Mother's Day card comp too, and was lucky enough to make it into the top 15:


I've also been engaged in the very time consuming process of making some paper birds for a private commission. All you collage-ers and paper cutters out there - I take my summer straw hat off to you!! Here they are so far - just a Mr Peacock to join this group:


They are all double sided, and as I'm sure you can imagine, very tricky to assemble with all the individually cut feathers. I made use of four different types of glue, depending on the size and material of each feather/foot/beak/eyeball etc and what it was being stuck to. I also made use of my eyebrow tweezers for placing some cut components, which are now also helpfully covered in crusty white glue-remnants. I will wash these before any future eyebrow plucking, lest I resemble this:

Which frankly, glasses aside, I am already nearing. Definitely got that hairstyle down to a T.

Giveaway!

Hello you lovely lot!

Well, what with Valentine's Day approaching, I thought I'd do a little giveaway to share some Lou Peajeux love in the form of these loved-up notelets: 

The giveaway prize is one packet of notelets that contain four individual cards and four white envelopes; each card is printed with an illustration around the theme of love - there's a bear offering a hug, a lollypop, a sweet jar of honey and rows of hearts. 

To be in with a chance of winning, all you have to do is leave a comment to this post and follow me either here or on twitter! 

All entrants will have their name written on a slip of paper and shall be pulled from a hat at random. Winners announced on Valentine's Day! Limited to UK residents only this time.

Good luck!

Another Threadless Design

I've finally come up with another design for Threadless. A night to sleep on it, and then I'll see how it looks in the morning before submitting. Any feedback would be welcome! I also need to come up with a cunning title...