Ring ding ding da da ....Snowflake rings by Heulwen Designs and inspiration..

Snowfall ring by Heulwen Designs

Glitzy rosette ring by Heulwen Designs

Winter wonderland..inspiration

Paper Snowflake making....

Vintage glam corsages

Deluxe floral corsage necklace by Heulwen Designs now available to buy on Folksy

Deluxe floral cluster brooch by Heulwen Designs on Folksy

My new collection of Autumn/Winter 11 corsages have been inspired by the Vintage glam of the Seventies and the Gucci collection which was inspired by Florence Welch's  vintage- tastic wardrobe!

Florence Welch of Florence and the machine in Gucci

Gucci corsages

...Christmas corsages

New Collection.....Here are a couple of photos of Heulwen Designs new winter party season corsages!!..will soon be available to buy on etsy..

Corsage Clusters

Corsage using vintage buttons

...Printmaking!

I have enrolled on an evening printmaking course to develop my designs for my portfolio, I love it and I now look forward to monday's a little bit!! ;)

We have covered quite a lot already such as colagraph printing, monopriniting and lino printing. I have uploaded some photos from tonights class. 

The theme of this years course is natural forms.... My work for this project has been inspired by my travels to the jungles of South America and SS12 fashion trends.

Lino cutting a toucan :)

Lino cut and black and white print

Tis the season to be jolly...Christmas craft fairs!

Heulwen Designs

Heulwen Designs was at the Grand Theatre Christmas Craft Fair event this weekend the 11th and 12th of November. The established event was a great success! I was selling items from my latest collection of luxury homeware such as cushions, framed prints, lampshades and greeting cards. I was also selling a new collection of fashion accessories such as co-ordinating corsages, rings and hairbands. 

 There was a fantastic wide variety of of over 40 stalls on 3 floors selling high quality unique local crafts. I have added some images from my stall and also pretty Christmas gifts from other stalls  at the fair this weekend.  The next craft fair event from the Grand theatre arts wing will be held in the new year.

Heulwen Designs

 

Heart Felt Creations by Catherine Gammon 
Gorgeous bespoke felt accessories and felt jewellery. 
All her items are handmade and many fabrics used are recycled

Heart Felt Creations by Catherine Gammon

There were also some members of the Gower Craft and Artisans group, promoting Swansea's local crafts and producers who attended for the first time with lovely craft stalls including Ultimate Drifter and The bead life.

Ultimate Drifter
Driftwood & recycled practical art - designed by instinct & re-usable materials.

The Bead Life  
Unique handcrafted beautiful designer jewellery

Elissa V Evans - Cat illustration

I met Swansea based illustrator Elissa V Evans and jeweller Jeannette of BeadyGonzales at the Grand Theatre Craft fair. It was lovely to meet them both. Here are some of Elissa's original illustrations.

Elissa V Evans - Illustration

If you want more information about Elissa’s work, you can contact her on elissavevans@hotmail.com

New fabric collection

Rose print Linen

I've just a few metres of fabric digitally printed with Digetex  I'm so happy with the result! I'm planning to make lots of new homeware items to add to the Heulwen Designs shop.

Leaf print on 100% cotton

Rose print on Linen

Hay-on-wye...town of books

I went to the Telegraph Hay-on-Wye book festival yesterday, the first weekend of the 10 day festival.  It attracts the most exciting writers, filmmakers, comedians, politicians and musicians to inspire, delight and entertain. There were also lots of nice craft stalls there! 

I went to see a really inspiring talk by the novelist and travel writer Paul Theroux about his new book 'Tao of Travel' with journalist Rosie Boycott. I also bought a ticket to see the entertainer Paul O'Grady talking with Sandi Toksvig about his new autobiography The devil rides out he was brilliant, "oh my gawd!" lots of funny stories! I spotted Professor Brian Cox too and the actor/stand-up comedian Mat Horne wandering around.

I went to some lovely cute gift shops in the town, my favourite was Chattels on market street. There was also some fabulous work by artisans at the Butter Market.

At the Butter Market I bought some ceramic butterfly buttons from Alejandra Bernales of ideas ceramics

Old books

I liked this Harper Collins dust jacket I saw in a book shop

Another cute bird print

Telegraph Hay Festival goody bag, like the bold graphic print on this bag

Other side of tote bag "All ideas start somewhere"

Outdoor books...