Storeyshop Paper Cuts for InStyle Magazine

One of the reasons I have been so busy lately and surrounded by even more piles of paper than usual: I was recently commissioned by InSyle magazine to create some gothic papercuts for an amazing 10-page fashion feature! It has to be one of my favourite jobs of all time. Have kept it under my hat for a month or so so I was really excited to get my hands on a copy today and see the finished story in print! Behind the scenes photos to come in my next post...

New Camera, Meet Newcastle!

OK, I'm finally off the auto settings and getting to grips with my new camera. Things are slowly coming back to me from my university course and I'm loving experimenting without worrying about the cost of photographic paper and film like in those old days! It was Dave's birthday a few weeks ago and we decided to go for a weekend away but stayed local seeing as we'll be moving away soon.

I love Newcastle. Especially all the old industrial buildings and bridges. We walked around Ouseburn and the Quayside on the Saturday in lovely sunshine and I took my Canon along for the ride. I've edited out of the pics of Birthday Boy looking bored at my snaphappyness (lots of him perching on bollards and leaning against walls with a 'how many more?' look on his face!) and here are some of my favourites...



































And one of me sporting my new favourite Amor tee by emilythepemily who screenprints her brilliant designs in my hometown of Brighton. Love! Oh, and a couple more of birthday fun would only be right...

Happy Birthday To My Mum!

Yep, it's my brilliant Mum's birthday today (she's a complete bookworm) so lots of Happy Birthday wishes (and goodies hopefully, if they've arrived) being sent from Northumberland to Sussex today!










She also loves a crossword! In other news, I'm still really busy at Storeyshop HQ so all really good. Busily cutting away as always and looking forward to a couple of exciting press features in the pipeline which I'd better keep schtum about for now (so hard!). Current wait time for hand cut orders is around a week - partly as we have a wedding to go to (yay) in the Lakes on Thursday. Here's the queue of orders waiting to be packed up for todays' post...



(also featuring a peek at our new 'French Grey' office walls!)

I Want Wednesday (on Thursday)!

This week seems to be speeding past me again and I was buried in card orders all of yesterday so here is my 'I Want' post for this week. Based in Sydney, notTuesday showcases the brilliant polymer clay creations of Rachel Wightman. I love everything about this shop; the products and titles, the colours, the shop name, the creative photographs... Enjoy!















You can also visit the notTuesday website here

Storeyshop Wedding Stationery

Ooh, I do love a wedding! Here's a peak at some recent papercut wedding invitations and place name cards I made for a lovely couple who got married earlier this month. The card design is laser cut from ivory cards and each invitation is lined with a printed ice blue paper inlay. The table name cards are individually hand cut from the same ivory card and have matching love hearts and the same dark blue typeface and type colour as the invitations...






































I love making wedding stationery and have more photos up my sleeve of other recent commissions. Better keep them under wraps for now though. I don't want to ruin any surprises! I hope the weather cheers up by next week as we're off to a wedding in the Lake District. Can't wait!