Primark

Another one of my Bag designs is now on sale in Primark Nationwide. I quite like this design, it's very girly and a little quirky. This range was called 'Kaleidoscopic'.

This bag design originally came as an after product from the wrap, although the wrap did not get chosen for final selections. Here's a sneaky peek of the wrap.

Also a few of my notebooks are in stores...

Cupcakes

My Little Cupcake notebooks to match the Cupcake wrap

Vintage Boutique

These are my little 'Vintage Boutique' Notebooks to match the wrap.

More to follow soon...

 

Please Note All designs are Copyrighted to SwanMill Paper Co. Please do not copy.

Past Work - 'Shrine'

So, the visit to The Royal Yacht Britannia reminded me of a project I once did in uni. As I said in my previous post my grandad was a Sailor in the Royal Navy. I am extremely proud of this fact, unfortunately my grandad passed away in 1994, so I never really got to hear many stories as I was 6 when he died. I do know that my Grandad and other Crew was successful at what they did. I won't go into detail as I don't want to drag the Past up and offend anyone. But I respect him for doing his bit to save our country at war. As I was finding out more about my grandad and his life, It really touched me, so I decided that I wanted to dedicate one project in particular to him.

This Project was called 'Shrine'.

The Scharnhorst

The Duke of York, The Ship my Grandad sailed on for quite a while.

These images above are some pieces from my sketchbook. This module was based in digital format so everything was adapted to digital. I mainly used Photoshop for the module and Illustrator was used at a minimum.

This is my Grandad! I Love this photo so much, it makes me laugh every time I see it. All these images are photos that my grandad had/took when he was on the ships, they are so precious to me, as these are my memories of him.

These were my final Pieces...

I love using my Grandads old photo's, they give me a little history lesson. I can imagine what life he had, how he lived it in the Navy, some good times and some bad times. I will always honour his memory

 

Please Note All designs are Copyrighted to Leanne Carpentier.

 

The Royal Yatch Britannia, Edinburgh

Hello! and a Happy New Year! Hope you had a lovely Christmas/Holidays!


As you may already know, I went to Scotland for my Christmas Holidays this year to spend it with my Boyfriend's family. It was my first ever Christmas away from Home, and how different it was! Don't get me wrong it was lovely, but I did miss my family. Whilst I was away we travelled down to Edinburgh for a few days before coming back home to Cardiff. Edinburgh was lovely, the winter wonderland was open and they were starting to set up the streets and Gardens ready for the 'Hogmanay' celebrations.
When we were in Edinburgh we decided to take a trip to the Royal Yacht Britannia.

The Royal Yacht Britannia, Copyright of Scottish Media. Clydebank 12th Jan 1954.

During the Reign of King George VI, The Royal Yacht Britannia was built to replace the Victoria and Albert III Yacht, but the King died 4 months before the Keel of the Yacht was laid. Princess Elizabeth, his daughter, succeeded him to the throne. The new Queen gave the Yacht a personal touch by approving and selecting the fabrics and decoration.

This Yacht has helped to make The Queen the most travelled monarch the world has ever known.

Singapore 1974, Photo Contributed by ex Royal Yachtsman Eric A Piper of Norwich. Copyright of The Royal Yacht Britannia.

This Yacht is lovely! The interiors were so pristine. The thought of myself walking where the Queen once walked was really weird, in a good way. The thing I loved most was that Princess Diana, the Princess of Wales, once stayed on this Yacht. It was Diana and Charles' Honeymoon gift from the Queen.

When I was taking a look around the Yacht, I made a really personal connection which I forgot that I had. My Grandad was a Sailor in the Royal Navy, and I kept thinking that my Grandad would have lived in the same type of environment for months on end. It brought back some really close memories of the photos he kept. I really enjoyed seeing the Bunk beds and the engines. It was so enjoyable, I felt like a little child again.  

If you get the Chance to visit this wonderful piece of history then go and do it! Enjoy the feeling of being surrounded by a Royal Past presence and take in the history.

Christmas Break

I am now officially on my christmas holiday, and I fly off up to Scotland in a couple of hours to spend Christmas with my Boyfriends family, So I won't be accessing my PC for a good week or so. I just wanted to wish everyone a Very Happy Christmas!! and a Fabulous New Year! Have Fun!

Christmas Time is upon us

Yay! I love this Season! It's been such a crazily busy month its unreal! I have been up to my old tricks by making things again, and this year I wanted to make something for my mother. I was inspired by Torie Jayne and her blog an awful lot this month as she has created some magical decorations. The one thing that caught my eye was her home made lip balm. I thought it was ideal gift for a stocking filler. 
I bought the ingredients and proceeded to make. I decided that strawberry lip balm would be most suitable for my mum as she loves strawberrys.



I started off by melting some White Bees Wax pellets and Sunflower oil together in a glass bowl, using the microwave. Once this had melted, I gave it a good stir and added in some shavings of a chosen lip stick colour to make the mixture go pink. This melted instantly and I gave it another stir. I then added a little strawberry flavouring into the mixture so it tasted a little. I also added in some sparkly pink edible glitter to my mix. Then gave it a stir, using a piplette I separated the mixture into 6 little plastic lip balm jars. Then left them to set for about 2 hours before putting the lids on. To decorate the pots I used washi tape to seal them and made my own sticker label for the top of the jar.

So thank you Torie Jayne!! If you would like to make these Lip Balms too, check out Torie Jayne's blog post here.

I also gave one each to my workmates and they loved them! Hope you enjoy making

Christmas Presents

So my christmas wrap is being sold nationwide at Homebase,UK and I wanted to post up a picture of my wrap on some presenst! I Love these wraps. They're great quality too. So get down to Homebase and buy some!!



 

Please Note All designs are Copyrighted to SwanMill Paper Co. Please do not copy!



Wrapping paper from afar

Hello there,

So this week I found out that some of my wrapping paper designs were online in some of the stores that Swantex (the company I work for) supplies to.



I've taken a screen grab of these particular websites.


Woolworths, Australia

Game, South Africa

If you'de like to take a look at these website then please follow the link below

Woolworths - http://www.woolworthschristmas.com.au/decorationideas

Game - http://www.game.co.za/search.aspx?keyword=christmas

 

Please Note All designs are Copyrighted to SwanMill Paper Co. Please do not copy!





My first sale!

Yay! Yesterday afternoon saw my first sale in my shop! I sold one of the 'Yasuna' Framed prints! How exciting! :D

A little reminder that theres still 15% discount if you enter the discount code LeCarpentier11 at the checkout! happy shopping!

Visit my shop here.

Baileys Card Making Shop

I've just stumbled across this wonderful website full of crafty supplies at a really reasonable price too. It's fantastic. I was looking for some spotty buttons and the range of stuff they have on there is brilliant so I thought I should share it but they only post to the UK at the moment.

They also have a blog on their website which is really good. They've posted up some images to download for free for use as backgrounds in your scrapbooks or card making. What a lovely idea! If you'd like to check out their blog then click here.

Check their whole site out here. Happy crafting!

New Prints

Some more new prints have gone into my shop and are now available to buy...

If you would like to purchase any of these then head over to my shop here. Also for a limited time enter the discount code LeCarpentier11 to get 15% off the total amount at the checkout!!

New prints are ready!

Hello,
I've finally got around to getting my prints printed and framed, I orignially designed these as gifts for christmas but if you would like one then please contact me as I'm putting some up for sale in shop. I'd love to know what you think?

This print is called 'Birdcages' I was inspired to do something with birds as they seems to be very popular in the interiors industry at the moment.

Printed but without frame

I've also got another print called 'Yasuna' which is of a Japanese girl with 3D fans and Glittered areas.

Print but without Frame

If you would be interested in Purchasing any of these with or without the Frame then please take a look at my shop here

New Christmas Designs in Stores NOW!

It's been a while since my last post, and that's because I have been exceptionally busy lately, with work and catching up with friends, something I don't get enough time to do very often!! So I've been making the most of it.

I have been looking around some of the High street stores lately, and I'm very happy to see some of my designs featuring in stores such as Dunelm Mill, Homebase and Primark. Of course these designs are by myself but are produced for the company I work for to supply the high street stores so Please note that ALL work is Copyrighted!

In Homebase at the moment, are some of my favourite designs that I've done so far, I really like the Reindeer wrap. It was a joint effort by myself and another designer at the company, along with a Robin wrap which unfortunately I don't have a picture of.

In Dunelm Mill right now I have two wraps and a few bags and Boxes. I don't particularly like these designs much but it's what the customer wanted so they had to be done!

I don't actually have an image of the boxes but I must say that the quality of them are really good, better than I expected if completely honest. There are 10 boxes in total which vary in sizes to fit into each other (a bit like a Russian Doll) but they're sold separately so you can find a box that fits any present! Marvellous!

I will keep you posted if I see anymore out and about!

P.s Marks and Spencer have some lovely Christmas wraps, cards and Crackers out at the moment, I'd recommend a look here.

 

Please Note All designs are Copyrighted to SwanMill Paper Co. Please do not copy!