These last few weeks i’ve been working on designs & other crafty bits for a fundraiser my friends & I had last night for the Teenage Cancer Trust and our friend. We raised £260 on the night & the donations are still coming in! Thanks to anybody who came along to enjoy the night & show their support.

If you are still interested in sending us a donation, however big or small, you can by visiting our Justgiving page.

Here is the poster & banner I designed to advertise the night:

I’ve been a bit distant on the blog front for a while. So why not share with you a link to the lovely Illustration Rally Blog?

I’m lucky enough to be featured amongst many talented illustrators for the Valentine’s rally. So check it out & enjoy!

Till next time…

Well it’s pretty obvious I have been keeping my website looking tidy but I have sadly neglected my blog for a long time. So I thought instead of the usual what I have been up to chatter I would create a little ‘how to’ entry.

Today I have been making this little felt graduation hat for a nice lady who borrowed my dissertation. I’m also planning on popping into the new bunch of 3rd years exhibition next week at Portsmouth Uni. (It’s been a year already?!) hense the theme of the grad hat.
Anyway time to stop my rambling and let the tutorial commence…

Step 1:
Cut a 10cm x 5cm length of felt and fold it in half

Step 2:
Cut out a square of thin card to fit into half of the felt & glue the layers together

Step 3:
Using a contrasting thread sew around the edges of the fabric

Step 4:
Next fold the corners of the square to meet in the middle

Step 5:
Then fold the corners of those folds outwards

Step 6:
Cut out a strip of felt 10cm long ( I used another contrasting colour) and sew along the bottom (optional)

Step 7:
Glue or stitch the strip of felt to the small corner folds made in step 5. This pulls all the hat elements together!

Final Step:
Add a couple of beads to a ribbon & pop the ribbon through a small hole made in one of the corners of the hat!

The last couple of months have been busy ones. To start off I graduated from the University of Portsmouth on the 15th of July! It was a big, frantic day were we got to wear those annoying hats, meet Sheila Hancock and queued for hours before hopping on a train to the new designers exhibition in London where 7 Pompey illustration peeps showed off their talents.

Here are a couple of piccies…

After such a busy few weeks I am currently back in Devon with my beloved. (You can spy him here) who’s working on small commissions while I sit besides him trying to motivate myself once again. Now home is calling me back in a few days time I will have no excuse but to create some fresh new work for you lovelies to browse and/or purchase.

A few little things I have created are Flickr and Big Cartel accounts (a bit bare atm) just so you can see scribblehands in even more places around the web

Flickr

Bigcartel

On a happier note, i have opened up the online shop. So far the shop is limited but i hope you enjoy the few items that are for sale.

Heres a picture from the exhibition:

New additions to the site include the shiney new shop (opening soon) and this news page so I can keep you up to date with the happenings of scribblehands.

If you do like my illustrations feel free to get in touch and let me know. I will happily illustrate for you.