Easter Bunny time love love love Easter! xXx

Happy Easter everyone! yay not long to go now love celebrating Easter with family and friends and hopefully some of them will be getting a few hand made presents better get making! Here are a few of my Easter makes that are selling in my ickle shop notonthehighstreet.com or please contact me directly on trudy@buttongirl.co.uk….hope you like them and have a super special Easter! xXx

Personalised Easter felt bunny goodie bag yum!

Personalised Greeting Card with a cute Felt Bunny Badge.

Easter Bunny Sewing Kit.

Gone a bit crazy with Personalised Cards!

Oh its so nice and sunny today ….love that Spring will soon be here cant wait!!!! Well i have gone a bit crazy in the month of February with personalising many cards. They are all currently selling away on notonthehighstreet.com so have a peep!

New baby personalised cards…my fav is ickle owly as you can put a personal message from a special loved one x

Personalised cards sent from little people ‘Will you be my Godmother / Godfather’ x

Personalised ‘Thank you for being my Godfather / Godmother’ from cute little ones x

Personalised ‘Thank you’ keepsake card for a ickle bridesmaid or flower girl x

Personalised ‘Happy Engagement’ yay gotta celebrate with a card for such a wonderful occasion x

A Christening, dedication and baptism greeting card a nice way to personalise a very special day in a little persons life x

Hopefully my customers will like them have to wait and see! lots of love xXx

Valentines love love love

I have been feeling the love recently with creating new personalised greeting cards….creating away on good old illustrator my ‘Geek’ and ‘Penguin’ greeting cards were the best sellers during the Valentine’s season.

One of my handmade cards embellished with a simple white felt heart stitched with a blanket stitch and a cute neon button….a personalised tag hung with white ribbon already to send to a loved one.

My ‘Cute as a button’ greeting card comes with a pretty brown tag with button heart ear rings…something a little bit different a card and gift in one woo hoo!

Here are a few of last seasons Valentine greeting cards and the two cute bear characters were showcased on ‘Print and Pattern‘ blog last week yay!

And to finish off my ‘Valentine’ love a personalised felt heart …..a pretty decoration for a loving home.

Onto the next occasion of creating away for ‘Mother’s Day’ and other creations in  the pipeline too…..watch this space lovely peeps xXx

Happy New Year Special Followers!

Happy New year special followers hoping for a wonderful year ahead and well lots of fun!!!!!

I have been like a button machine recently the Christmas period was soooooo busy with Christmas craft fayres, and sales going a bit crazy on ‘notonthehighstreet.com’ my ickle hands just about coped….creating personalised cards, gift tags, decorations, prints, badges, cake toppers, children’s jewellery which has all been fun creating different products. So here are a few pics….watch this special space for new products soon looking forward to creating away 2015 here i come! xXx

Sitting and working away at one of my Christmas fayres xXx

Feeling rather jolly festive at the mo!

I have been a very busy busy ickle elf the past month creating lots of new festive gifts and bespoke stationary ready to for the Christmas season ahead. From personalised festive prints, decorations, hand made greeting cards, tags, festive children’s rings, hair clips, ear rings, Cake toppers to craft kits…so lots of special stocking fillers!

I have loved having a styling day photographing everything such a relief when everything comes together yay! Here are a few of the photographs and please go on to my shop on notonthehighstreet.com to purchase away or please contact me personally for combined postage.

And I have a few Christmas craft fayres i will be attending can’t wait bit nervous how they will go but positive thoughts everyone love my new festive products….. will keep you updated! xXx

See ickle me in ‘Hoop-La’ Magazine yay!

Morning peeps…there is a super new embroidery magazine called ‘Hoop-La’ out woo hoo, about time there is a modern take on embroidery to showcase how exciting, innovative and creative it can be and not dull at all! I love embroidery so bring on more issues please!

In the second edition out last month i was asked to create away a special bespoke tutorial. A cute ‘Bessie Bear’ embroidered card…slightly obsessed with bears at the mo. and dedicated most of my last greeting collection to my love for bears! have a peek on nototnthehighstreet.com

Here is my tutorial with a few photos that is in the latest issue of ‘Hoop-La’. I appliqued some ditsy vintage fabric as the main body of Bessie then stitched a scalloped ribbon and a ickle tassel trim on top…always nice to layer up trims!

 I used various stitches such as: back, chain, satin, seed and the two ickle buttons were created by using the buttonhole stitch. I always separate out my embroidery thread to have variation in the thickness to make the bear have more relief in certain areas than others. I then placed ‘Bessie Bear’ on a good quality FSC textured greeting card and simply stitched ‘hello’ on to the front of the card. You could always write a loved ones name or an initial to personalise your greeting card. Why not even try stitching on to the envelope too… making your card even more special!

Photos pinned from: frecklednest.typad.com and tellloveandchocolate.blogspot.co.uk.

                         Hope you have enjoyed my ickle tutorial happy designing xXx

Personalised Animal Character Family Print…cute X

Morning…this week i had a lovely creative time with my super special illustrator friend Sue at her Studio in Hertfordshire. Designing away surrounded by chickens, ducks and Lamas! was definitely a welcomed change of scenery and always nice to pick a friends brain for future projects. I was inspired to create some cute characters and thought it would be a lovely idea to produce a family personalised print which is now selling on notonthehighstreet.com.

There are 12 different fun characters including a raccoon, bear, cat, bunny, a ickle owl…so lots of choice hopefully a cute character to be loved by each family member from Dad to nanny to ickle ones to even adding in auntie and uncle!

Each family member can have their very own accessory to reflect their personality and character, from a trendy ‘Beanie’, ‘Geeky Glasses’ to a ‘Princess Crown’ there is something for everyone in the family! Hope you like my new ickle family animal characters X X

‘Pom Pom Rosettes’ for my nephew Jude

With my ickle nephew Jude’s birthday just around the corner… thought it would be a nice idea to make him something a little bit different for him to wear on his special day! cute pom poms and brightly coloured ribbons and fabric to make him feel very important Xxx so i got carried away creating and tadah here is my collection of rosettes notonthehighstreet.com hope you like them lots…lets hope they sell too xXx

Illustrator fun!

I have been having a bit of fun with illustrator recently here are some of my creations X

Love the white felt flowers with subtle highlights of neon stitch inspiring me for my next project! X

Love creating mood boards and decided to go for a geo and tribal feel… clash of pattern and colour lovely! X

Polka dots and a 60’s floral feel always a winner…coral and mustard my fav colours! X