New Item: Paperdolls and Puppets!!

 Hi Friends!!

I just added 3 new items to my store. The first is a paperdoll set that I'd been working on (seemed like for AGES!!). I've re-worked my little paperdoll girl. Seeing as this is the first and original set which includes the doll, you get 3 outfits in this set - one page of adorable fashion clothes, and two pages of Alice In Wonderland clothes!

The second is a finger puppet set of The Three Little Pigs. There's a background, 3 pigs, and 1 wolf. Put your fingers in the holes and play!

Lastly, I added a Baby Congratulation card with a lift up flap. It's a printable file, so you create all this yourself! Send it to your friend for a cute surprise when they lift up the flap!

 

 

You can find all these items here.

I hope you enjoy these new illustrations as much as I do!

Mel xx

FREE May Calendar

Oh my gosh is it May already? Time is going so quickly I can't believe it. It didn't seem that long ago that I was studying for my HSC. But I've been out of highschool for about 7 years! That is insane.

I'm a bit late on this one. Here's the White Rabbit May freebie calendar.

DOWNLOAD IT HERE.

I'm going to post more of my sketches soon.

Take care.

Mel xx

FREE April Calendar

The Queen of Hearts April freebie calendar.

DOWNLOAD APRIL CALENDAR HERE.

Happy Aprils Fools everyone! I didn't have the heart to play any tricks on anyone today, but my fiance actually played a cruel joke on his friends. He pretended that he was getting kicked out the house by me and was asking his mates for a place to stay! They were all genuinely worried about it too! So mean...

Tell me your April Fools Day stories! What jokes did you play?
 
Mel xx

FREE March Calendar

March calendar freebie as promised.

DOWNLOAD MARCH CALENDAR HERE

Hope you enjoy. Stay tuned every month for a new one!

Mel xx

Featured in Etsy Treasury!

 Yay me! I've been lucky enough to be featured in another treasury! It's called Winter and Wonderland, and features my alice in wonderland necklace. When I hear Winter Wonderland, I never really think about Alice, but this collection really puts the two together very well - wintery whimsical Alice. The Alice in Wonderland custom glasses are so adorable. So super exciting!!

Check it all out here.

Mel xx

What's in my sketchbook - New sketches

Thought I'd just give you guys a sneak peek of what I've been sketching lately. I've been working on building my characters and illustration style - long and lengthy process but I'll get there one day. Of course I've started with some dress-ups - Alice in Wonderland and some Wild Things. These are only sketches, I have yet to colour them!

I'm engaged!

So it's actually been a few weeks now but... I got proposed to! Sorry I haven't blogged about this earlier! It was extremely lovely, and a huge surprise! I thought we were going to watch a couple of soccer games but on Saturday morning, my boy surprised me with High Tea! He said it was to celebrate me getting my health back so I was just so excited and happy. It was my very first High Tea experience and I've always wanted to go!

So after the food and tea came out, this beautiful Alice In Wonderland tea set came out with more tea. There were little cards that said "Drink Me" and "Eat Me". Thinking this was part of the high tea experience I was just so thrilled. You guys know how obsessed I am with Alice In Wonderland, so I was in my element!! I wanted to keep the tea set and the little note cards, I was like a little kid! I went to the toilet and when I came back, there was a third note sitting on my tea cup (the ring was inside the cup). I turned it over and it said "Marry Me?". It was the sweetest, most perfect proposal for me anyone could think of!!!! The boy had organized with the High Tea management to include the tea set (which he bought and I CAN keep!!) into the High Tea service and to surprise me! There was no soccer, he had booked a hotel room in the city, secretly packed an overnight bag for me and what impressed me most was he had gone to my parents house and asked for my hand in marriage the night before (I thought he was hanging with his friends!!)!!!

It was definitely a day and night I will never forget! And an incredible story that I can tell to our kids... one day!!

Mel xx

FREE - Drink Me Thank You Cards

As most of you know, I am a huge Alice in Wonderland fan and continue to draw, illustrate and design things that are inspired by it.

Here's another FREE printable for you guys to print out and use UNLIMITED amounts (please do not sell these as your own)! It's good for Etsy sellers that want to include a nice note to your customers, or just for those who want to say something sweet to ones you love!

DOWNLOAD IT HERE!

I really like doing these FREE printables for my blog and intend to do them more often! I would like to say that I'll do one every week... but I'm so busy all the time I'm not sure how I'll go... I'll try though!

Hope you like them! If you do use them, I would love to know what you've used them for! Comment below!

Take care
Mel xx

My first Treasury!

I've always seen many talented artists and Etsy sellers get their items added to certain treasuries. I've always wanted my items to be a part of something like that too and guess what? Now it has!

My Alice in Wonderland pastel drawn postcard item has been added to WonderlandShop's Go Ask Alice treasury.  But it's only up until Feb 15th! I'm so happy to see so many other Alice In Wonderland fans out there!

Mel xx

Ta-Da!

A long time ago, I posted a few sketches I'd been working on and promised to post them up when they were completed. This is my first time using photoshop to colour these pictures and I quite like them (for my first go)! Need to practice a lot more though! Too many things to do and try! I'm going to send these off to print soon so they'll be new postcards in my shop! So excited!

BTW: For those still unsure about Twitter - it really is a great way to stay in touch and read about what others in the world are thinking and discussing! It doesn't take too much time and I find it a much easier way in making new friends! I'm already addicted, so create an account and join me now!! - tinysandtea

Sketches

I've been doing a lot of sketching and experimenting lately. Here are 3 works in progress: Alice in Wonderland inspired Items, Billy Goats Gruff and Goldilocks and the 3 stuffed Bears teaparty. I coloured the Billy Goats Gruff in pastels but am eager to try my hands at colouring them digitally. Will let you know how it goes!

NEW ITEMS

Come check it out! I got the final piece to my 5 set Alice in Wonderland postcards - The mighty scary Queen of Hearts ("Off with your head!"). This now completes my Wonderland set and is available to buy on my Etsy store. (I love them so much!)

I have also added a few more lovely polymer clay jewellery trinkets and a cupcake stationery writing set! This set comes with 10 lined writing sheets with a cupcake design on the back, 10 matching cupcake envelopes, 1 magnetic bookmark and some cupcake cutouts to decorate however you please.

My favourite item? The cupcake bookmark! It's so cute and adorable and USEFUL! I am constantly losing my bookmarks (weird because they're there to help find - does anyone else lose theirs?) but now I won't have to worry because now I have this! The bottom of the bookmark holds a small flat magnet which snaps together the pages you're reading so the mark doesn't fall out! Smart!

NEW ITEMS

A few of my Alice in Wonderland Postcards have been delivered and are now available to buy at my store so come check it out!

Tea Party in Wonderland

All gathered around the table for a tea party. Everyone had their own ideas on a conversation starter:
Alice: "It would be so nice if something made sense once in a while".
Chesher Cat: "Can you stand on your head?"
Queen of Hearts: "Off with your head".
White Rabbit: "I'm late!"
Mad Hatter: "Why is a Raven like a writing desk?"

and The Chesher Cat began: "We're all mad around here"....

I'm still here!

Okay, so I havn't blogged in about 2 months! But it's been a busy 2 months for me! I've been hammering through work (all deadlines have been shortened due to the Xmas/New year holidays) and I recently bought a unit with my boyfriend so i've been moving out and moving in (it's been busy busy busy!)

BUT, I have been working on my illustration work. A lot of children illustrators out there have inspired me to get back into drawing and I love it! That's not to say I will not be doing anymore polymer work! I will get back to that later when my creative brain wants to take a break from pastels.

So, here is a cute postcard I drew of Alice (Alice in Wonderland) - it is currently being printed! I absolutely adore Alice in Wonderland and have decided to do a series of postcards of the cute and quirky characters - Alice, Chesher Cat, Mad Hatter, Queen of Hearts and the Rabbit.

I hope you like it and watch out for more work from me! I promise I won't take too long in between posts!

Til next time,
Tiny Love

New Ideas, New Stuff!

Finally! I have shot, downloaded and uploaded my latest polymer clay creations! I have molded a few different characters. First, my cute Little Miss and Mr Men characters from the series! I use to read these tiny books over and over again and I have quite a big collection now! I have created a Little Miss Naughty, Mr Clever, My Bump, Mr Messy and Mr Happy charms! I intend in making a charm bracelet with these characters, necklaces and earrings with the huge range of Little Miss and Mr Men Characters! Second, I have also molded Alice in Wonderland, Ariel and Dorothy charm. I love the disney series and would like to do more of these characters (I think they look so cute!). Third (and last), I molded a Homer Simpson charm! With his favourite food in the whole wide world - Donuts! Pretty similar to the real pictures don't you think? I'm quite proud of them! Hopefully I'll get better as I progress! Please leave comments of what you think!

Til next time,
Tiny Love