There’s no better way to beat the January blues than with a fresh burst of designs to brighten the grey days and with Spring Fair International just around the corner I am just in time to show you the new cards I’ve been working on. What’s more this February it will be my 10th appearance…

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I’m back form a long break in blogging to bring you news of an exciting collaboration I have been involved in with Cotswold Collections who commissioned a specially packaged selection of my hand illustrated Christmas cards for their customers. It was an absolute pleasure to work with the buyer, as we chose four festive designs…

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This month I celebrate 8 years of Fay’s Studio. How time flies when you’re having fun! I welcomed this milestone with my largest single order to date from my customer of 8 years, Paperchase! For many months an order of almost 11,000 Father’s Day cards has been keeping me busy in house hand-finishing my ‘Hero’…

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Ok, so I realise it’s been 18 months since I last posted any news, as they say, no news is good news. It’s just that I have never been so busy illustrating for some amazing clients and blogging just hasn’t happened. It’s also been a really challenging 18 months because, anyone who remembers from way…

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Just before Christmas I received an invite from the Highgrove Estate to a special Christmas event they were holding for their staff and suppliers. I was told HRH The Prince of Wales was attending to meet and greet his staff of the Estate and the Highgrove shops. Highgrove Pop-up shop, Cribbs Causeway, Bristol. I was…

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Since the launch of my British Bird range and the special project I have worked on with Highgrove this year, I decided to develop my range of British wildlife illustrations and begin a new collection called ‘In The Wild’. These six new designs will be available as greeting cards, finished with silver glitter for Christmas…

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In February whilst winding down from a busy Spring Fair International at the Birmingham NEC, I was approached by the Special Projects Manager from Highgrove about my British Birdillustrations on my trade stand. After a lengthy talk about my illustrations and how the cards are produced, we agreed to work together after the show on…

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I had been hearing a lot on the grapevine from customers that they found it difficult to find Birthday cards for those difficult ages, especially teenagers that do get a bit forgotten. So, with this in mind I set out for some inspiration for a new range. I knew I wanted to design a card…

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Today I have a little product release news for you. I have been busying away on a new range of everyday cards with a bird theme. There are 18 cards in this C6 size (105 x 148mm) range which are printed onto a beautifully embossed board and hand-finished with iridescent glitter. Each card is blank…

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Lately I have been considering many more ways to license my designs in cross category products via my agents Advocate Art, and have been trying ideas for gift wrap just to get a sense of how my work could look on gift stationery and wrap. I’ve had a bit of fun with my Birdcage and…

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