Greeting cards

New illustrated greeting cards for birthdays, bat-lovers and wild swimmers!

Here are some of my new card designs that are available on Thortful - and here’s a 30% off link for your first purchase - yay! Click on the images to see them on Thortful. All of these designs and many of my others start out as hand-illustrated originals for my friends/family and with a little digital pimpage I spruce them up ready for printing and offering to a wider audience.

Does an imaginary pond surrounded by wildflowers and inhabiting nudey peeps and birdies sound like fun? After months of covid lockdown, (somewhat socially-distanced) freedom is on the agenda! #Freeyourbits.

Have a wild birthday card for nature-loving wild things!

Have a wild birthday card for nature-loving wild things!

Birthday greetings brought to you by a couple of onesie-clad pop-drinking elves - available age numbers from 1 to 10 on the balloon.

Happy birthday elves card

Happy birthday elves card

Pardon my French, but I’m crazy about you.
And bats.
I’ve been partial to the adoration of bat populations since accommodating a mother and baby bat on my cabana ceiling in Nicaragua. Followed by attending bat talks, clutching sonar detectors on bat punting safaris, and drawing the little blighters left, right, and centre.

Batshit crazy illustrated card

Batshit crazy illustrated card

Let me know what you think - and come say howdy on Instagram where you’ll find me @makingstrangers with more drawings and lots of sketchbook work.

New greeting cards - stay in touch by snail mail

Introducing my new cards! My ‘stay safe, take care’ and ‘thanks for everything’ cards use the same illustration with different text and were originally a watercolour postcard I made and sent to a friend during the coronavirus lockdown. As people are less able to communicate in person at this isolating time, I also made the design into a free download/printable image for anyone to use (see my free downloads section) - that version has a blank banner so you can write your own message on the front.

The two versions pictured here are available via my Thortful shop now and also my new stockist, the bricks and mortar shop Daily Bread Co-operative in Cambridge in a few days.

Stay safe, take care, and happy posting!

Valentine's Cards - best places to find my illustrated Valentine's Day cards

If you’re interested in buying one of my Valentine’s Day cards (thanks so much!), I thought I’d show where is best to order from depending on location, postage costs and delivery times.

If you were a bogey, I’d pick you!

If you’re in the UK/Europe, purchasing directly from me via my Etsy shop is the most cost effective way, along with being the quickest! If you’re sending to a UK address, you can order my cards from Thortful and have them sent directly to yourself or your recipient with your message printed inside (I receive a commission/royalty for these and Thortful do the printing/posting.) They also offer add-on options such as sending chocolates, socks, etc.

If you’re in USA, it’s worth looking at my cards on Society6 as they ship from USA so it should in theory be cheaper and faster. Last time I ordered from there my package was shipped from Texas to England. This is another platform that does the printing and posting on my behalf and I receive a commission.

My cards are available on Redbubble with the same commission basis as Society6. They state “we have a global network of 3rd party printers that make your orders. Once you place an order on the site, each item is sent to the independent printer closest to you.”

I love you more than sloths love hibiscus!

I love you more than sloths love hibiscus!

I’m sticking with you card.

I’m sticking with you card.

I also have a Valentine’s mug gift available via Etsy!

If you were a bogey, I’d pick you - mug.

If you were a bogey, I’d pick you - mug.

I’m open to suggestions of other platforms to offer my designs via. Please do let me know your favourite place to buy cards by illustrators online!