Rockpool – Pop Up Drawing

Pop up drawing/card made for a friend and inspired by her blog post about visiting the rockpools in Hawaii.

Drawn in ink and watercolour (with plastic for the water).  The card when folded is 125mm square.  Not for sale.

Apologies for the poor video quality here. It was getting dark when I needed to film it.

Penguin Pop Up Cards #5-7

I’ve made new penguin pop up cards.  Here’s three which are listed in my online Folksy shop (which, by the way, I now ship internationally from).  There’s another two pop up penguin cards to follow soon as will more printed christmas cards.

It was a little tricky to control such an active lot of penguins and they kept sliding all over the place.  But they’re all now happily settled in their pop up groups!

 
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Each pop up card is unique. They feature original penguin drawings on the front of each card as well as part of the pop up in the inside the cards.

They can be used as christmas cards but are blank so could be used for any occasion.

Each card is drawn in ink and coloured with watercolour. Cards are 120mm x 120mm smooth acid free 300gsm card stock and comes in a cellphane sleeve with envelope.

Pop-Up Card: Kitty Sleeps / With Gift

Pop-up greeting card made by me to sell in my online shop.

The front has a sleeping cat and inside the same cat, with curly tail with a wrapped gift (suspiciously fish shaped!) on a table.

The card is drawn in ink and coloured with watercolour by hand.

It is 120mm x 120mm smooth acid free 300gsm card stock and comes with envelope.

Christmas Cards for 2009

I’m starting to list the christmas cards I’ve made in my Folksy shop.

There are packs of printed cards (from my own art work), packs of hand drawn cards and individual pop-up cards which are drawn and assembled by hand.

All the cards are all my own work.

Printed Christmas Card Packs

Each pack has 4 cards of the same design (left to right):

• christmas tree cat
• christmas cat
• penguin plays
• christmas bear
• penguin flippers
• penguins forever (upside down in this 1st photo!)

The cards are 105mm x 148mm printed on 250gsm cardstock and come in a cellophane pack with envelopes.

I have a limited stock but am able to produce more on demand.

  

  

 

 

Hand Drawn Christmas Card Packs

Packs contain 4 cards, each a different design and each drawn in ink with watercolour. Cards are 125mm x 125mm and come in a cellophane pack with envelopes.

Here’s some example scans from the packs showing the five pictures used for the christmas cards:

There are a limited number of packs (currently just 6 packs have been produced):

 

Penguin Pop-Up Greeting Cards

I currently have 4 penguin pop-up greeting cards.  Each is unique.

They feature original penguin drawings on the front of each card as well as part of the pop up in the inside the cards.

They can be used as christmas cards but are blank so could be used for any occasion.

Each card is drawn in ink and coloured with watercolour. Cards are 120mm x 120mm smooth acid free 300gsm card stock and comes in a cellphane sleeve with envelope.

 

 

 

Busy Getting Weary (Drawing)

A drawing I did 2 weeks ago when I seemed to be incredibly busy but not seeming to have much too prove for it except feeling incredibly weary.

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Drawn in ink with watercolour on A5 (approx 8″ x 6″).

DLA Lifeline (Drawing)

I rely on my Disability Living Allowance (DLA) for many things to help with my personal care, mobility and medical needs. 

The British Government is seeking to stop paying this sort of allowance directly to people and to give funding to local authorities instead.  But the services that funding would provide would not include many of the things I rely on my DLA to pay for.  Effectively I would have my support cut off.

Read The ME Association’s concerned response to the Green Paper ‘Shaping the Future of Care’ http://www.meassociation.org.uk/content/view/1020/161/

A couple of extracts from that response:

“Attendance Allowance (AA) and Disability Living Allowance (DLA) use care needs (and in the case of DLA, mobility needs) as indicators of the extent of someone’s disability. Those benefits were created to help with all costs of disability including lost earnings and higher fuel bills, leisure and housing costs. Many of those on AA/DLA do not make use of fee paying care services and so switching resources away from AA/DLA and into professional care would mean that many beneficiaries of those benefits could lose out.”

“Research shows that much of AA/DLA  is spent on a broad range of informal care services such as paying for gardening, sharing lifts in cars and paying for someone to do shopping. These informal arrangements work well and bring with them a social network; friends are made and health is enhanced. This all supports the core principle of Individual Budgets that the care and benefit system has recently championed.”

Please sign the petition http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/AttendanceA/

Here are just some of the things things I rely on my DLA to pay for:

• prescription medication (a yearly certificate)
• over the counter medication
• suppliments (eg. fibre suppliments, vitamins and energy suppliments) which help with symptoms
• help with gardening as I am unable to do any myself
• upkeep/maintenance of my wheelchair which I rely on when I have to go anywhere when I need to stand or walk for longer than a few minutes
• help with fuel bills as I am virtually housebound, being sedentary and having trouble with temperature regulation due to ME
• thermal clothing to help keep me warm as my mobility problems mean I am sat still for long periods and also for when I do go out in my wheelchair (assisted) during autumn and winter
• help with broadband which allows me to stay in touch with family and friends which would otherwise be impossible due to my mobility problems and difficulties with communication due to ME
• earplugs for noise sensitivity
• eye glasses which I require because ME affects my ability to focus when I am very ill
• help with delivery for shopping as I am unable to go out to the shops and so rely on using online shopping and paying for postal delivery

Without DLA that I get paid there would be greater strain placed on us and our limited income because of additional needs due to my illness.  The same is true for millions of other people.

A huge thanks to Benefits and Work and their continuing efforts to rally support in opposing this Green Paper.  Without them many people would be unaware of the implications of these proposals and many groups would not be so actively engaging in the debate.

Fairytale (Pop Up Drawing)

I made this pop-up drawing for my friend of a castle tower which reminded me of a fairytale.

The card is A6 (folded approx 4″x6″) and it is drawn in ink and watercolour.

Dragonfly Pop-Up Card

This is the dragonfly pop-up card I made for my mum’s birthday.

My mum loves dragonflies.

 The card is A6 (approx 4″ x 6″). Drawn in ink and watercolour.

Good Luck Teacher (Pop-Up Drawing)

Good luck pop-up card of a teacher’s desk, chair and whiteboard for my sister-in-law who is starting new career as a teacher.

The personal handwritten greeting has been obscured.

Card is drawn in ink with watercolour and is A6 (approx 6″x4″).

New Home (Pop-Up Drawing)

Pop-up card of a sweet little house with front garden and smoke from the chimney for a New Home greeting card given to my brother and his girlfriend.

Card is drawn in ink with watercolour and is A6 (approx 6″x4″).