A little piece of England for you

I've been away for a few weeks back home in the UK and spent some lovely time in The New Forest, known for it's thatched cottages and wild ponies, my kind of place!  I took plenty of photos to be able to share with you all.  One of my favourite visits was Furzey Gardens, recent Chelsea Flower Show Gold Medal Winners .  Lots more photos to share soon after my very exciting Launch Party next Thursday, that you can read about at the bottom of this post!

 Loved this cat, next to his Chelsea Pensioner Scarecrow!

 Little Fairy Doors were all over the gardens to see for those that believed!

I have been working very hard on a brand new range of Duckling and Lily inspired illustrations!  I would love to invite each and every one of you to my Little Duckling Launch Party I'm hosting in my Garden and right here on my Blog next Thursday August 2nd, all day long.  There will be lots of new friends to meet amongst the flowers, products to delight in and plenty of Cake for all!  I'm so excited to see you all back here, do invite your friends and family to join in the fun, the more the merrier!

A Lamb called Buttercup...

In the field behind our garden I can hear the sound of Spring Lambs coming from the farm building, can't wait to see them!  I have always loved Lambs, as a child I would spend my Easter holidays at my Granny's home in the countryside and help at the next door Farm with lambing season.  I was on duty to hand rear any orphaned lambs and was in heaven!

This wee little Lamb was part of one of my very first Bumpkin Illustrations.  Recently a customer that loves Lambs like I do recently asked if I could make some cards with just the Lamb.

Well I jumped at the chance and decided that she needed some sunny Buttercups in the field with her!
Do you remember holding Buttercups under your chin as a child to see if you liked Butter or not?!

This "Buttercup The Lamb" illustration is now available in my Etsy Shop as an Easter Card, Birthday Card, Blank Notecards and the cutest scalloped Stickers.  I'm going to have fun decorating my envelopes & gifts with these Stickers at Easter.   Thanks for skipping by, I'll be sure to share photos of the Lambs out in the field when they appear!  Catherine x

Wishing you all a Very Merry Bumpkin Christmas!

Merry Christmas to each and everyone of you and may your New Year

be filled with magical moments and days of hope and friendship.

Bear Hugs from the Bumpkin Bears, Friends & me!

Catherine

x

Love of Books Gift Guide

Firstly Happy Thanksgiving to all you that are celebrating today, have a fabulous time.

I just adore books, especially vintage ones with beautiful illustrations in them, where you can just loose yourself into their worlds.  For sometime I have been wanting to design bookplates from my illustrations and I'm excited to share a range of 3 designs ready to hop into your favourite books.  If you are treating those you love to a book or two at Christmas these friends would love to join them.

For the Love of Books

Our Story

A Snowy Friendship

They make lovely sets with my illustrated Bookmarks -

Teddy Bear's Picnic 

 Happiness is a Cup of Tea and a Good Book

 Hedgehogs Love Books too!

Our Bedtime Story

For the Love of Books

Pinback Buttons & Magnets

Do you have a favourite place in your home for reading, then how about sharing it with these friends?

They couldn't choose just one book at the woodland library!

For the Love of Books Print
Every Print that is purchased before Dec 5th receives a free Christmas Card & Gift Tag.

See you back soon in a few days time for some fun Gift Guides for those that love Crafts & Gardens!
Hugs
Catherine
x

Pretty in Pink Gift Guide

This Gift Guide is for all those little girls that when asked what their favourite colour is, they answer pink!  My niece does this and watching many of the little girls in my family they always light up when they wear a pretty dress with matching shoes and always feel very proud when they have a bracelet on or a pretty Badge/Pinback Button.  I have designed some sweet "Best Outfits" Gift Sets that would be a real treat as presents for their little friends or popped in a stocking and at less than 3.50 euros they will not last long (I only have a limited stock of my Buttons & Magnets before Christmas).

"Best Outfits" Gift Sets - Rose Bunny or Primrose Bunny - A Pinback Button on chintz or polka dot display cards & set of 6 scalloped Stickers to put on Cards to friends or to decorate their Notebooks.

When I illustrated these Pinback Buttons I imagined them pinned to little outfits, so here is a selection of the sweetest designs I found on Etsy, all British Hand Made.  How about making up a gift of an outfit with a pretty Bumpkin Button?

From top left across each row:

Boo Pinafore Dress by Belle and Boo

Flower Cardigan by jayceeoriginals

Cupcake Handbag by Fanciful Alice

Linen Deer Dress by Treefall Design

Make their room a haven of happiness & full of the pretty colours & animals that will inspire their imagination (this counts for anyone that is still young at heart!)

From top left across each row:

Many available as Prints, Cards & Party delights!

Friends for Tea - Special set of 3

Sweet Dreams

The Butterfly Chase

New Dawn

Mother's Love

Hedgehog Love

Very British Bunnies

Dream Balloon

I hope you've enjoyed todays Gift Guide, in a few days will be a new one - what will it be?

Thanks for visiting.

Hugs, Catherine

Imagination Gift Guide

I remember as a child that I would look at the pictures on my walls and animals on my curtains and make up all sorts of adventures for them.  Each night before I would go to sleep I would make up a new story.  If you are on the look out for an original gift for a child this Christmas how about inspiring their imagination and bringing a magical world into their room through Art?

All my Prints come beautifully presented in a hard backed box envelope with cute stamped address section and a bakers twine bow, all ready to hop into a frame.  From now until December 5th each Print that is ordered from my shop will receive a free Christmas Card & Gift Tag making it even sweeter for gift giving. If you would like any gift orders sent directly to friends or family with your own message, I offer this service for free, just let me know the details when you check out.

Here is a selection of my Prints with tones of blue, many that can be personalised, I felt would inspire the imagination of any child, especially boys. Tomorrow I'll be sharing an Imagination Gift Guide for little girls that like pink!

From top left across each row:
My Winter Wonderland
Off We Go!
New Dawn
Mother's Love
Come Fly with Me
Snow circus
Wish Upon a Star
The Butterfly Chase
Favourite Moments - Summer

Last Postal Dates for Christmas (but the sooner they are sent out the better!)

5 December: Australia, New Zealand, Africa, Far East..

9 December Eastern Europe, USA & Canada

12 December Western Europe

See you tomorrow, Hugs, Catherine x

New Buttons & Magnets

I'm excited to finally share a whole new range of Pinback Buttons (also known as Badges) & Magnets.  I have created really sweet illustrated display cards for them and the bags they will arrive in will have a sweet To and From label on the back, making them perfect for gift giving.  They'd love to hop into a Stocking this Christmas or would be perfect for sending in the post.

I only have a limited stock of each design.  You can see them all in my Etsy Shop.  See you back soon, Catherine x

Join in their adventures next year?

I am not sure where the last year has gone but as we are heading to Christmas and New Years I thought it time to get the Bumpkin Friends organised and make them decide which months they wanted to be on for my 2012 Calendar!  After many discussions they made up their minds and it is ready to share with you all! So if you would like to share in their adventures throughout next year then you can find them HERE. All new illustrations, so if you have collected or given a Bumpkin Calendar in previous years these will be all new for you.

New Badges (pin back buttons) & Magnets are on their way to my shop soon too, I've been busily illustrating backing cards for them and taking photos. Thanks for visiting, Catherine x

Magical Sale!

It's time to have some fun so there is a 15% off everything SALE over at my Etsy Shop. Running just until midnight (GMT) Friday 21st October! It's easy peasy all you have to do is enter the coupon code MAGIC4ME at check out and you will automatically have 15% taken off your total (not including shipping). There are lots of new goodies in store so I hope you'll enjoy exploring and can collect a bit of magic to hide for Christmas time, ready to spread to those you love.   Amongst everything you will find Prints that can be personalised and these new garlands which will be so cute for Christmas decor and can be used year after year, being made of a gorgeous quality linen texture card.

WONDERLAND Garland

Alongside these you'll find Christmas cards, new scalloped Gift Tags and whole new Party Ranges (which I'll show on here soon)!

The Bears did not want to be left out of the magic so if you go along to their page on my website and take 30% off their adoption fee as shown then this is the saving you will make to bring a very special new friend into your life.  Both Callum & Romeo would love to spend Christmas with a loving new family.  If you would like to adopt one of them then just send me a note.

Must dash, there is an ever growing to do list, but I hope you'll all have fun with this Sale and

it helps you out a little during these tricky times.   Catherine xx