Last week I received my invite to Pinterest and i’ve been pinning ever since. I have 4 boards at the moment – “Cool Typography“, “Surface Patter Design“, “Website Design Inspiration” and “VW Vans“. Click on the links and have a peek!

It’s great for finding inspiration as you can pin things in groups and peruse them all at once. I’m pinning on a daily basis and finding loads of cool things to post!

Here are a few images from my boards.

You can see my full Pinterest profile here. Enjoy!

Yesterday Top Left Design sent out their January newsletter (just in time!).

The theme was “Make Do And Mend” and I created the illustrate for the banner this month! I wanted to show the idea of mending something that was old or broken, so the iPad was a perfect choice.

The newsletter talks about “8 free, or almost free ways to improve your presence online”. This could be anything from updating your vanity URL on LinkedIn to going through your website and making a “snagging list” of changes you’d love see.

You can read Top Left Design’s January newsletter here for more tips.

Here’s a close up of the full illustration I created.

I also designed the footer for the newsletter too.

The team also wrote a blog post about their newsletter too.

Recently, I’ve been introduced to the wonderful world on Pinterest, and I LOVE it! It’s like having your very own vitual pin board full of all the things that inspire you. I registered for my own account today, and I have a few ideas as to what I’m going to be pinning up.

Keren Lerner at Top Left Design has been very busy creating her own inspiration boards. I love her Owl collection, and thought I would make a perfect blog post after my recent “Owly” illustration.

Keren has also written a very interesting post about Pinterest, and it’s well worth a read!

Here are a few images from her board.

(All images taken from Keren Lerner’s Owl Pinterest board)

Today I did my first illustration of 2012 and it’s been inspired by all the “owling” around at Top Left Design recently!

Hope you like it…

Some tasty gingerbread treats by my sis!

Today my sister made gingerbread men for some Christmas nibbles over the festive period. Take a look below and these little fellas.

My 12 Days of Christmas posts were blogged about on Top Left Design’s site over December. You can read the full post here.

Thanks Top Left Design!

Some cute ”Snowman snow globe” cookies by Hello Naomi

Hello Naomi create custom made cupcakes, biscuits and baked goods for all seasons. I spotted these delicious iced “Snow Globe Cookies” on Flickr and had to blog about them.

Here they are in all their festive glory!

As well as illustrating Top Left Design’s newsletter I also quickly knocked up this Facebook banner too using the same theme. It was quite hard to get 9 sledgers into that shape so I was chuffed to fit them all in!

Check out the illustration here and find out what Top Left Design have been getting up to.

This December Top Left Design asked me to illustrate the banner of their Christmas newsletter. I decided to recycle this illustration I did last year with a few new additions (JP, Kevin, Nichaela and Susan).

You can read Top Left Design’s December newsletter here.

Here’s a close up of the full illustration.

A collection of 5 Free Christmas Printable from Pinterest

Need ideas for gift tag designs this year? Well take a look at Pinterst for some free printable gift tag templates. Here are 5 of my favourites.

Printable tags by Love Vs. Design

www.lovevsdesign.com

Printable tags by Brightside prints

www.blog.brightsideprints.com

Gift tags by Hey Look

www.blog.heylook.fi

Feather gift tags by Love Vs. Design

www.lovevsdesign.com

Holiday tags by Celeste Rockwood-Jones

www.celesterockwood-jones.typepad.com

(All images taken from websites above and Pinterest)