LIONHEART ISSUE 2: WARMTH

Happy Friday lovelies! We've been very busy here at Tea & Crayons headquarters, getting on with lots of lovely illustrations and cosying up from the rain (rain in July?!) I wanted to share with you what I've been up to, that is receiving a rather lovely package in the post, only to find it's the new issue of Lionheart, which I illustrated the cover for. Hooray! I've been in love with Lionheart from the start, so it was a complete honour to be asked by the lovely Hels to illustrate the cover  ♥ ♥ ♥


Lots of treats in the new Lionheart, including pieces from lovelies The Aviary, Shipshape Studio, crayonette and beautiful mama Fritha, super sweet illustrator Madi Barrett, the lovely Olivia from whatoliviadid, lovely illustrators Holly Exley and Daria Hlazatova, our very own wonderful Abby Wright as well as beautiful photography, amazing written articles and lovely illustrations ♥ A massive thank you and high five to the amazing Hels Martin, editor and creator of Lionheart ♥ You can also still get your lioness/ lion paws on the delectable issue one: bravery, which is just as beautiful and if you haven't already get your mitts on the new issue

Have a fab weekend lovelies, what are you all up to?

♥ ♥ ♥

New work by Fritha!

Hello! did you miss me? its been a while..
WELL I'm pleased to say I am back! My little boy is now almost five months old (crazy!) and I'm finding time for illustrating again. Maybe not as much as before granted but a little here a little there, life is good!
I've been working on a few different commissions lately and am pleased to be able to share my latest one here with you all. It was so much fun working on this wedding invite, i couldn't help smiling when they told me penguins were a must!

If you want to find out more about my custom designs then just head over to my blog and say hi!
Tea and Crayons have so many exciting things in the pipeline 2012 is going to be pretty fun! (ok I know its May but for me its the new year ok? ;) )
You can also find me at Bristol with Kids!
xoxo

Fritha at Paperchase!

We have the most exciting news to share with you today at Tea & Crayons! Fritha's illustrations can now be found in Paperchase - in the form of cards, mugs, snow globes and more! Amazing! And the perfect Valentine's Day gift, I'm sure you'll agree.

It all began when Fritha decided to send a couple of her Valentine's Day designs to Paperchase in the hope they may be interested in using her illustrations on some of their merchandise. They obviously loved her style and thought her work was perfect for them. The illustration below was the final design they chose. It's instantly understandable why they wanted to purchase this illustration - the delicacy, the adorable character, the wonderful use of colour and the oh so cute heart balloon. We love it!

The following images, taken by Fritha, show her illustration brought to life in various products. I cannot wait to see them for myself. You can read Fritha's post about it here.

My personal favourites are those beautiful hand warmers, I need to get myself a pair! We're very proud of Fritha and perhaps we will see more of her illustrations at Paperchase in the future.. We certainly hope so!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Wishing you all the loveliest of new year's, hope yours started with some glasses of fizz & sparkly fireworks! Mine wasn't quite as glamourous as that, but nevertheless it made me happy to think of all the lovely new things 2012 will bring! We've started the year welcoming in our lovely Fritha's beautiful baby Wilfryd, which has put a smile on our faces! Super lovely pictures of new mama Fritha & her family on her sweet blog. Rachel L has her beautiful floral illustrations in Lionheart mag (ROAR!), Rachel P created some super cute owls for Yumi's window displays (twit twoo), Kay's blog has had a gorgeous makeover rapsberry, mint & orange & Abby has been illustrating beauties for Lionheart, there's one of Fritha! I've been illustrating for Audrey Grace Boutique (lots of super illustrators on there!) Also lots of wonderful projects to come from all of us crayonettes! Here's to 2012, eh! LOVE NATASHA ♥

Little Crayon Has Arrived!

I'm sure everyone will join us in saying a big congratulations to Tea & Crayons member Fritha, who gave birth to baby Wilfryd yesterday. You only need to look at twitter to see how many people are pleased for mummy and family. We are very proud Crayons! xxx

Hello from Fritha and Lionheart pics

Hi Tea and Crayon friends! Fritha here, I'm sorry its been so long since I've posted, I am coming up to being six months pregnant and have baby brain in a major way :)
I thought I would share with you some recent illustrations I did for Lionheart magazine. We at tea and crayons HQ are super excited about this up and coming magazine so it was lovely to be part of the first edition. The first illustration is for a piece on Pat Albeck who is a pretty amazing lady if you've never heard of her before, I cant wait to read what she has to say.

The next illo was for a Temperley piece, I was in love with the dress so it was a pleasure to work on. As you can see two quite different types of illustrations! I'm usually a big fan of strong bright colours so it was a challenge to draw something more floaty and feminine but I think it worked out well :)

Hope you like! xoxo

T&C Meet up in sunny London Town

Last weekend Rachel, Rachel and Fritha met up in sunny London!
We popped along to the New Blood show on Brick Lane to see our Abby's work exhibited among the many wonderful creatives! Lots of inspiring work, we were feeling v motivated about the future of tea and crayons so we made lists and many plans! :)

Photos courtesy of Fritha :)

 

 

(Above - Rachel P, Rachel L, Fritha at the very glam Paddington train station)

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xo xo

Full Steam Ahead

Over the weekend the lovely Abby came to Bristol to visit me (Fritha) and we had lots of fun. I just had to show Abby one of my favourite gallery's in my home city, the Here gallery :) There were lots of zines and postcards from some of our favorite artists and gave us lots of ideas for future Tea and Crayons publications!
We also got to see the Tom Frost and Teresa Murfin exhibition which was stunning! Here are some pics:

pretty no?

Tigerprint Hand Drawn Competition: Our Entries

Hey Crayonettes! Hope you've all had lovely long weekends and haven't been working too hard! We were back at work today and it was a bit of a shock to the system!

Some of us spent our bank holidays wisely by lending our typography talents to the monthly (ish) Tigerprint competition; this month the theme was Hand Drawn which of course suits us all very nicely!

Entries by Natasha:

Entries by Fritha:

Entries by Rachel L:

Good luck to everyone who entered!!