Greetings Cards

I've always wanted to design my own card range  - and now I finally have!!! 

I love old books, I have stacks of them, every chance I get I have a good rummage at charity shops to find any vintage flower books. I've been lucky enough to find plenty and I really wanted to put them to a good use. 

After designing my 'botanical plate range' it gave me the idea to use the pages of these old books along with my trusty sewing machine to create one of a kind cards. The illustrations are so beautiful I didn't want to over work the design so I simply added a small stamp design - these include birds and insects.

I'm addicted to using my vintage tape writer at the moment - if you don't own one you definitely need to purchase. My granddad who has sadly passed away labelled everything with this, I have so many of his old books with his initials stamped on the spine. I wanted to include the tapes into my designs, so each card has a message typed on the front - very simple but effective way of mixing the old with the new. Check out my range here my Etsy shop.

Selina Lake's Summer Fete

this coming Saturday, Heart Vintage will have a stall at Selina's Summer Fete in Guildford. Selina will be signing copies of her latest book, there will be a vintage tearoom, a flower stall as well as two floors of hand picked stall holders selling lots of vintage and handmade lovelies.

I'm so excited to be asked to sell my up-cycled vintage china wares including my plates and candles, I'll also be launching my greetings cards range too.

Yarden Love

since moving into my rental last year I've put all my time and effort into putting my stamp on the house. concentrating mostly on the decorating the yarden took a back seat. as soon as the warmer weather came this year I wanted to make the outdoor space another room to my new home.

I wanted to add an up-cycled feel and used second hand and found objects to create a space where I could grow veg & fruit and all the cottage flowers I've always loved.

willow was used to make a handmade trellis for my sweetpeas, recycled crates were used to make a vertical herb and flower garden and lots of vintage and found terracotta pots were packed full of perennials and seeds to create a wild garden look. I even made garden lights recycling glass jars and and adding vintage buttons and tealights.

How do you use your outdoor space, does it reflect your taste in home decor?