New Cards!

Wowsers, it's been a while since I showed my face on here hasn't it! Sorry everyone. It's been a few mad months at QC HQ - including work on a very special project of which all will be revealed later this week!

In the meantime, there's some fab new designs for you to browse over...and Christmas will be coming shortly too (after trying to delay it, I've finally got to admit it's definitely time to get some of the festive spirt in gear!)

Now available to order are these super-cute personalised 'New Baby' cards.


You can either have little hearts or stars holding up the Baby's name, and their Birthday is cut out on a little banner along the bottom of the heart. They make lovely gifts for the parents as I've been told these are both now framed in the Baby's bedrooms, aw!


In a bit of 'something different' for one of my most popoular cards, my favourite custom order this summer was this Vintage-tastic Wedding card for a very happy couple.

The script-like writing lent itself naturally to a vintage look, and with the deep creams and blush pinks and the two little love birds at the top, I think it worked really well!

Bon Voyage! (in a few days...)

Just to let you know that from next Monday 1st August, I will be picking up my scalpel and cutting board and tootling off for a couple of weeks...in the first ever QC holiday!


Do not fear, I'll still be online and contactable via my Folksy and Etsy shops, so please do wing over any ideas for custom creations or general queries. Just for a couple of weeks I've got an actual holiday (hurrah!) and a very big and exciting project to be doing which requires all my concentration! I'll be back from the 19th August - and am still here for a few days yet!

Custom creations!

I've been so busy this year I haven't yet had chance to post pictures of some of my custom orders - so now that Valentine's Day madness is over (and I've got weekends and a few evenings back, yey!), here you go...

My first order of 2011 was this very special vintage Typewriter - very different to my normal style, I even got to do a bit of drawing!






Hope you've enjoyed a peek at my recent creations - back to the cutting board for me now! (well, once my poor burnt hand - exactly where my Scaplel rests - has healed :( )

Some recent custom card creations

Sorry for being so quiet on the blog front recently - we've had a mad busy few weeks at Quite Contrary HQ! We're going to be in a local Gallery for Christmas, along with displaying our stock at a lovely Paper themed exhibition for 2 months, and taking part in the Pop Up Design Shop up in Northumberland - phew! So lots and lots of cutting and many late nights have been had and still to be had...it's all very exciting though!

I thought I'd share a few of the custom orders I've had recently - even though some of the backgrounds are a little odd I'm afraid (that's what having so much cutting and so little time for anything else does to you!) I'll start with my favourite one - it's just so romantic!

Romance has been in the air this month, with one of my best friends celebrating her 2nd Anniversary, and our lovely Neighbours celebrating their Golden Wedding Anniversary, aw! I created this special little card for them, with their initials in either heart.

New babies have been popping up everywhere apparently, as orders have been coming in for lots of special Baby cards. Here's a few of my favourite, including an adaptation for a Christening.

Hope you liked that little selection :) Time to get back to Gallery stock now, yey!

Cards Galore

Another busy week - I've been working on my Christmas range (some sneeky pics to appear soon, I promise!) and also had some nice flurries of custom order coming through so thought I'd share some piccies of my favourites you. I'm thinking of listing some of the brand new ones I've made if they're popular - let me know what you think :)

First, some of my favourite Birthday requests - the first is a lovely idea of a Birthday card for a Shop's First Birthday!

A very sweet one from a kid to his footy-mad Daddy -

A special card for a little chap who was born this week -

I had a very special order for a BIG A4 card for a 50th Wedding Anniversary - it was great fun doing everything super-sized! Here's the final result, I'm pretty pleased with it.

Here's a few of the Wedding and other Anniversary cards I've been making - including one with some sweet little Wedding Bells on.

And finally, my favourite cards of the week - this special 'Cheer me up' card, which I hope would make anyone smile!

Cards, cards, cards!

Quite Contrary HQ seems to have order fever at the minute (which is lovely, can I say!), so before I get surgically attached to my scalpel & board again, I thought I'd better put some piccies up of a selection of the ones I've made over the last few weeks.

One of the most romantic orders I've had yet, this special 25th Anniversary card has 'EL' on which stands for 'Everlasting love' - the very sweet couple have written this on the end of their letters to one another ever since they first met. Aww!

My Wedding cards have been very popular - you can tell it's the Wedding season!

And here's some of the custom Birthday cards I've made too...

And to finish with - possibly the best name ever for a Farm!

Custom Cards & Summery Greenwich!

Phew, what a busy few weeks! The virtual cash and cards have been flying around over the last 2 weeks to my amazement, hence the quietness of my Blog! It's Mother's Day coming up soon in the States and other places, so I've some lovely orders from my Etsy shop coming through for my 'SuperMom' card. Typical that then of all times that a Volcano decided to shed its load! But I have to say, my lovely US (and one Aussie!) customers have been lovely and totally understood - a big thank you guys!

We've also done another market stall at the lovely Greenwich Indoor Market, unveiling our new 'Summer' look! What do you think?

It definitely felt a lot fresher than our 'All Black' look for Winter. Unfortunately it was just too gorgeous outside for people to come in and have a browse, but it was still a fun day.
I've had quite an array of custom orders recently over Folksy, involving Toothbrushes, Terriers and Robots! Try and spot the logo of a well-known Folksy shop that the owner kindly let me use on her card order ;0) So here's a few pics for you - some of my followers may spot their card!

Over and out - off to stock up on sleep for more Craft Corner action tomorrow!