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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...

As I was born and brought up in Cambridge it made a fair bit of sense to do Cambridge as one of the first batch of themes. It’s such a beautiful city with so much history. So many inspirational scientists, poets, and other academics lived here and I consider myself very lucky to live somewhere where so much has been discovered. It sounds crazy but even though I’ve lived here pretty much my whole life there were colleges I’d never visited until last year, though as others I imagine would agree, when things are on your doorstep you don’t tend...

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...

Despite the development of modern postal technology, there has been a real revival of the use of wax and stamps in correspondence. I think everyone can agree, there is just something so appealing, personal, and downright exciting about receiving a letter sealed with wax. It’s the closest you’ll ever get to feeling like you’ve just been accepted into Hogwarts and that’s as good a reason as any that I chose to make them and add them to the range.     There are a few different ways to create wax seals, you can use a glue gun (on a low...