Custom made Christmas tree decorations

I've listed a custom made christmas tree decoration listing in my shop. Send me a picture of your pet and I'll make it into a cute hand painted wood decoration, suitable to display all year around!
 https://www.etsy.com/local/shop/TheCatkinBoutique

Christmas Cards ~ Hand silkscreen printed

 I've made a set of three Christmas cards, hand silkscreen printed in marbled blue inks. I've done a penguin and baby penguin A5 card. And two smaller cards; A6 polar bear and snow hare. My main theme for this season is snow rabbits, I have decorations, sticker, magnet and earrings of the same super cute snow ball - snow hare motif.

3rd Birthday!

Win a bag or piece of jewellery of your choice (not including custom items, sorry) by just by liking and commenting on this pic on my Facebook page.
I'm also offering 20% off any etsy purchase over £10 (ish) / $16  until Tuesday 4th of November 2014 (2 weeks from today) Can be used on any purchase including custom items :)
No, you don't need to get me anything, but if you haven't already please 'like' my page and share with your friends ;) Thank you again for all the lovely support over the years!
Nicky x x

Christmas decorations

 

I'm making more Christmas decorations, what would you like to see on your Christmas tree? I think donkeys are under rated at the moment....

Autumn colours

It has been a lovely sunny couple of weeks recently, but I've been working on some Autumn and Winter items (I know i should of done this in June by retail standards- but just can't do things that far in advance!)

I wanted to make more jewellery like my folk art necklace and rings I did last year. Mixing the simple painted style with autumn animals, or for this set British birds, makes a nice collection of colours and shapes. I hope these will go well with lovely berry knits that I wear as soon as the weather turns a bit nippy. I'm particularly happy with the crested tit on white and the wag tail on yellow.

I've also been using other wintery feeling materials, namely felt. Nomi Makes has a lovely collection of bright coloured felt balls and I've selected lovely jewel and berry colours - and the bag of mini balls I have looks just like autumn leaves! I'm going to mix these with ribbon and embroidery to make some cosy jewellery.

You can see more of my inspirations on my Autumn Pinterest board :)

Colours

I've been reading a few craft and small business books lately- trying to get a more cohesive image of the Catkin Boutique. Craft Show and Sell gave me a few useful hints, like choosing some 'brand colours'. A few colours always stand out to me and Yellow is one of them, this suits a lot of my items too like the cockatiel and parrot designs. I also like pink and bright turquoise...

 I also want to come up with a little slogan, as a few books mention. 'Cute, quirky and beautiful' is my tag line of my shop currently - but a lot of shops would describe there work like that. I thought about my sweet shop style bags and was inspired by a customers tweet "Chose myself a little treat from Catkin_Boutique" ;

A sweet treat from the Catkin Boutique! It sort of rhymes :)

Temporary Tattoo

Here is a selection of the temporary tattoos available in my shop right now. I've looked at traditional style tattoos and made a cute crafty spin on them, with the use of puns and pets! These make great little gifts to go in cards, or treat yourself to a fun tattoo for the week. ;D

 Butterfly Tattoo

 Makers gonna make tattoo

 Black moor , goldfish tattoo.

 Cat Lady tattoo

 Pug life tattoo

English rabbit tattoo

See my Etsy or Folksy shop to buy, (top left buttons)