Christmas fabric, cards and giftwrap for 2016 + free printables!

Well, it's almost that time!  The most bustling, stressful, and wonderful time of the year!  Christmas can mean so many things to so many people, but for most of us who recognise this holiday, it means that we're going to be really busy!  Shopping, socialising, planning and celebrating take a lot of effort and energy, not to mention time.  And no matter how hard you try, you always end up forgetting something, or worse, someone!

 

Liliflora Pretty has the solution to instant, coordinated greeting and gifting!  Over on my Etsy shop, you'll find my collection of rustic floral Christmas cards and gift tags.  They're digital downloads that are made available to you the instant your payment it received.  Print them out as many times as you need to have all the cards and tags covered for your loved ones.  The four cards and a sheet of tags together are only $5.00AUD!

The 2016 Christmas Fabric collection over on Spoonflower coordinates with the cards and tags.  The Christmas imagery is subtle, the most 'Christmasy' coordinate is the bauble repeat.  Because of this, these fabrics can be used for projects all year round that require a boldly beautiful floral touch.  With Spoonflowers' faster shipping options, there's still plenty of time to get these fabrics if you want to make your gifts or help a friends' stash this festive season!  Oh yeah, and all the designs are on Spoonflowers' high quality gift wrap as well!  They haven't been optimised for wallpaper, but if you think you'd like them to be, just drop me an email or a message on Spoonflower!

To give you a taste of the designs in this collection, you can download free samples of 4 of the designs right here:

Christmas Flowers
Floral Mint
Floral Pink
Starry Rustic

The pdf files are designed at A4 size and the patterns go right to the edge, so there'll be a little bit of clipping when you print them based on your printer settings.  I'm especially happy with the tessellated floral patterns!  Here's some ideas for what to use your papers for and how they coordinate with the cards, tags and fabrics.

The papers are being used here to give lovely presentation to a food gift in a cardboard server,
as well as a doily and a napkin ring with tag as a place name.

Another doily and presentation on the side of a cardboard food server featured with
washi tape and one of the cards you can purchase as a digital print from Etsy!

 

This was a very yummy photoshoot!

May your Christmas and New Year be safe, charitable, fun and healing.

Gather friends and family near and enjoy your holiday season filled with warmth and laughter.  Don't forget to bring others in from the cold.  Now, more than ever, a season of love, understanding, togetherness and acceptance is so needed by the world.

Take care,

Emma.

Colouring pages on Etsy!

There's no doubt about the phenomenon that is colouring books for adults.  From Johanna Basford's Secret Garden through to Art Nouveau Game of Thrones, you'll find a colouring book to suit any genre, interest and level of detail you desire.

Well, as usual, I'm late to the party, but I nonetheless have jumped on to this colourful bandwagon and created some colouring pages which feature inspirational quotes.

Included are "Tempus Fugit," to remind us that time will move on without us if we let it, "Make Good Art" inspired by Neil Gaiman's incredible speech and three other messages of encouragement.  Check out the Etsy listing for more details!

Before you head over there, though you'll want to read down to the bottom of this very short post, trust me!

To get you started, I'm including here two free colouring page printables, featuring lovely bold roses and a banner for your own quotes, as well as one with "You Can Do It" already printed on it!

 



View the blank banner version here, and the "You Can Do It" version here.  Save them to your computer and print them as they are.  If your computer gives you a warning about the size of the file and that there will be some clipping, this is fine, you don't need to resize the files at all.

There'll be more printable colouring pages to download from my Etsy shop, so keep an eye on my Instagram, Etsy store or follow on Facebook for new listings!

So, you read down all this way?  Good on you!  Just for that, you get this discount coupon for my Etsy shop, giving you a 15% discount on any purchase over $5!  The coupon code is: COLOURING

Thanks again, happy colouring and please let me know if there's colouring pages you'd like to see and please share your colouring with my via email, instagram or facebook!

Take care,

Emma.