New Year Resolution - 5 Weeks Lettering Challenge

New Year, new resolutions!
(I know it's almost the end of the month, but I was postponing the blog entry for a while, trying to find time to sort out my finances and plan a bit for the next year, I know excuses, excuses).

As a part of my new year resolution to get more organised this year, I have started my new Dream Plan Do planner for this year from the Design Trust and have to admit I am loving to plan or just read back all my plans for future and reasons why I do what I do. And it helped me to get a bit more organised already.

As a part of my 90-day juicy goal to extend my range of designs, I have set up 5 week lettering challenge. So far I am on the week 2. I am bit struggling with the pictures taken in dark cold rainy English winter weather on my old phone but hey ho. If you would like to join, use #5quoteschallenge.

FUNNY QUOTES NOTEBOOKS GIVEAWAY

I have 3 handmade notebooks to give away before Christmas. These are pocket size notebooks to record all the funny sayings kids come up with when little. The full description of the notebook can be found in my Etsy shop.This is a giveaway of already made notebooks for Hannah, Elizabeth and Alexa, with pink/yellow colour and designs as seen on the photograph. If you would like to obtain the following notebooks for free (UK only), all you have to do is:

1. Follow/Like Honcstudio
2. Comment in the post with the name you would like the notebook with (Hannah, Elizabeth or Alexa)
3. Share the post or tag someone else.

The deadline is 17th December 2017 23:59 UK time and the winner will be picked and announced on 18th of December.

New Soft Brush Pen for Hand Lettering Projects

Very excited as recently I got back into hand lettering and I am working on new designs. Today my new soft brush pen arrived all the way from Japan. Love it and cant wait to start new project with it. I have created new Pinterest board all devoted to hand lettering, let me know if you have some interesting project to share and want to be included https://www.pinterest.co.uk/honcstudio/handlettering/.

Every Great Idea Starts with a Scribble

Phew, kids are back at school and I feel energised for new product designs. So many ideas, at one point I felt overwhelmed with lots of new designs and didn't know which one to finish first. Luckily my superhero came to the rescue and suggested completely new title: Every Great Idea Starts with a Scribble! And new notebook has been born.

New woodlands animals journal for kids

So excited having finally new design for my funny quotes kids journal. This one is with my hand drawn woodlands animals, hedgehog, squirrel and leaves.

I have kept my daughters' funny sentences they came up with on pieces of paper until I had an idea to make a journal and write everything down in one place. We are regularly going through them and laugh our socks off...what would you say about this: "Elephant cant fit through the door, the house will fall down and we will be flooded with water from Elephant trunk." or "I know what's an incubator, Donna uses it at home to warm food." :) both when they were about 4...

Sea Inspired Summer Photo Frame

I have to say my daughter inspires me a lot with her mother's day presents. Last year I have made 30 days challenge with her heart present on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/p/BDu6Sp9KF51/?taken-by=honcstudio. This year she got me white photo frame. Couldn't wait to put my hands on it and change it a bit.

As posted earlier my inspiration was sea and things we collected on the beach. I have used my favourite blue Fresco Acrylic paints from PaperArtsy https://shop.paperartsy.co.uk/fresco-acrylic-paints-269-c.asp and applied two layers with sponge and toppled it with Vintage Lace colour. I have found some old laces and used them to add extra texture. Copper effect was achieve by applying a bit of Treasure Copper from Connoisseur Studio. I have stamped the words on old brown envelop and waxed it a bit with the copper too.

Inspiration

I have been playing with an idea to write a blog for ages. I guess now it's the right time to make the first move and post a first post. I have taken a picture of the random objects from my table (little bit influenced here by Roald Dahl but not including my body parts..yet) which are currently inspiring me. Hopefully I manage to tickle other people's creativity.