Blog — Small business

It’s always a lovely compliment when someone gets in touch to ask about the possibility of doing a bespoke project. Even though I love what I do already in terms of the themed stationery ranges it’s always fun to try something different and so with that in mind we are open to discuss any sort of bespoke design work that you may require in terms of commissioned illustrations & creative designs. If you have a specific custom order you are looking for please feel free to get in touch on our contact page so we can customize a quote for...

We use printed.com for all of our printed paper goods as they are UK based and are able to offer a huge variety of print options with a speedy turnaround and great customer service. I’d been in touch with Emma-Lee their Content Editor to explain more about the business and who then kindly featured Sleepy Bee Studio on their ‘Small Business Stories’ series. Below is the link to the full article and images, or you can read it below. https://blog.printed.com/smallbusinessstories-stationery-spotlight-with-sleepy-bee-studio/https://www.noissue.co.uk/blog/sleepy-bee-studio-a-tale-of-four-bespoke-tissue-paper-designs/   #SMALLBUSINESSSTORIES – STATIONERY SPOTLIGHT WITH SLEEPY BEE STUDIO Here at Printed.com, we put small businesses at our core. No...

I recently had the fantastic opportunity to be asked by NoIssue to take part in one of their case studies for their website. I discovered them on Instagram when searching for innovative packaging options and thought it’d be a great way to introduce a new product at the same time as providing a means to wrap the stationery in a beautiful way and avoiding the use of plastic. It’s only in the last few months that biodegradable greeting card wrappers have become readily available in the UK, which is another great option for the future, but for now I like...

It was something I hadn’t intended to do at all and in fact if you look at all 4 themes with the Botanical one (which was the first theme I drew) you’ll see I just did standard solid line ink drawings. But then as I started making my way through the Stargazer theme and drawing clouds I didn’t really like the effect of solid lines, they weren’t delicate enough. So I did one using pointillism in essence (except I only used black ink, not the traditional mixture of colours to create an image which is true pointillism) and I liked...