Saturday 20 August 2011

handmade gift

I decided to make this unique gift for a lovely couple who recently had a beautiful baby girl... I hope they like it! 

Hand cut & hand stitched




Wednesday 17 August 2011

Typography!

Epic amounts of cutting and sticking went down yesterday! I've been keeping busy by experimenting with a small range of cards focusing on text! 

Work in progress... hand cut & hand stitched.









Some CAD experiments...





Female Photography!

The brief was to shoot an image that contains a fashion element for use in the Female Everyday Range concentrating on delivering a trend driven result with a contemporary feel. - Here are the few I entered...

Here's to the Great British weather!




This entry was placed in the top 24 by the judges! :)

See my entries and many more at the Tigerprint Blog at - http://tigerprint.typepad.com/photos/female_photography/ilovemywellies1.html

Wednesday 10 August 2011

Cupcake love!

Hello again! So yesterday afternoon I was pretty bored... I decided I wanted to create a collection of birthday cards as this is something I had not yet covered! I had lots of fun with these designs... there was also plenty of 'research' aka - cupcake making/ eating to be done! :) this is what I came up with ...









Friday 5 August 2011

The gift of Christmas

I came across this Tigerprint competition recently and decided to give it a go! It was a little weird thinking about Christmas in July (quite scary actually) but I gave it a go and really enjoyed it! See what you think...


Some initial research...


I knew I wanted to play on words with my deer repeat before I even started. I decided to hand stitch the words to make the overall design a little different.



Copyright Jade Hemmins 2011


Copyright Jade Hemmins 2011


Copyright Jade Hemmins 2011


Copyright Jade Hemmins 2011


Copyright Jade Hemmins 2011

I chose the subtle colour palette as I wanted to move away from the tradition red and green. I was aiming to create something both modern and fresh.