It’s fantastic to be featured, and have had a wonderful response from them.

Please get in touch if you are a buyer and would like to receive our brand new catalogue.

1. A red rose from my sweet Valentine. 2. Sister practised more decorative nail-art on my nails. 3. I swear i must have broken the record for visiting this village post box for the umpteenth time last week. 4. A cute Valentine’s card from you know who. 5/6. If you’re visiting the Cotswolds, make sure you take a break at the Howard Arms. We thoroughly enjoyed their friendly service and  delicious food. 7/8. I finished off a commission to design wedding invitations for classic and elegant wedding theme. 9. Mum hand-made a 60th birthday card for dad using speckled metallic gold and bronze leaf on a pearl bronze card. So very sweet. 10. ‘Happy 60th Birthday’ cake made from chocolate of course! 11. With our new range of Christmas 2012 card collection doing really well, we are now hard at work designing our Spring 2013 range. What better way than to get messy with colourful paint. 12. Max the chocolate Labrador say’s ‘Hello’!

Hope you all had a fabulous weekend. Here’s to another busy week ahead…

I came across a lovely creative website by the talented artist Claire Leggett, who made good use of her patterned paper by creating beautiful bird boxes. Isn’t this just the perfect way to display decorative paper!

I’m pleased to say that i’m not the only one attracted to ornate bird houses. My sister bought this bird house to feature in her home, and i love it.

My love of pretty bird house’s shone through in our popular ‘New Home’ card, which also features a beautiful display of patterned fabric against delicate painted blossom. Wish us luck for finding our own place!

We have a big wooden chest packed full of these beautiful fabrics, and found it such a shame not to make use of them. Here are a few pretty hanging love hearts that we created with patchwork fabric, and decorated with an assortment of beads, lace and buttons that we collected over the years.

Happy Valentine’s Day.

1. I spotted some really pretty ceramics whilst window shopping. 2. We bought a bunch of cheerful Daffodils to brighten up our room. I’m so eager for the arrival of  Spring now. 3. Orders were packed ready for Monday pick-up. The cute Elephant design is a new addition to our ‘Piccolo’ range. 4. I worked on a private commission designing wedding invitations for a bride and groom. 5. In love with the Jubilee and Olympic themed products in the shops at the moment. 6. Yes I am a self-confessed chocoholic! 7. We took an early Sunday walk with Max the chocolate lab, who loves to pose for the camera.

Hope you all had a lovely weekend.

Sadly some buyers reported it difficult to locate our aisle due to a badly presented exhibition lay-out.  It was such a shame to hear this following months of planning and build up. However, we did receive a fantastic response to our collections, and we have plenty of interesting leads to follow in both the UK and International.

Our licensed Spring butterfly and floral notepads and photo-album also caught a lot of attention, and we are now looking to expand our Rosanna Rossi range for 2012.

We met some fabulous fellow exhibitors whilst at the NEC, which made our week so enjoyable. Above are the talented designers Fay from Fay’s Studio, and Helen from The Farmer’s Daughter.

Also across the aisle from us was the lovely Diane from Bird, and John Austin Postcards. Thank you lots for your enjoyable company.

Thank you also to everyone that visited, it was fantastic to see you all. Please contact us if you didn’t manage to attend the show, and would like to receive information about our collections.

Until next week, have a great weekend everyone!

It really is deceiving just how long it takes setting up a stand our size, and with all the measuring, painting, sawing, positioning each shelf and building a bench, it soon became an all day job.

Last week my partner and I designing a brand new ‘Rosanna Rossi’ sign as a focal point for the stand. It took us some time to make, but i’m so pleased with our bold, shiny new sign. You certainly can’t miss it!

Rosanna Rossi is officially launching a Christmas 2012 collection titled ‘Twinkle’ at the show, which we’re extremely excited about. This will be our first Christmas collection, so we hope it will attract lots of attention.

There are still some minor jobs to tick off before the doors officially open at 9am Sunday morning, but we’re pleased the overall look. It’s bright, clean cheerful and feminine, which is what we wanted to achieve. I shall post lots more picture of the show next week, however if you’re planning to visit come and say hello.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Yesterday i introduced you to pretty ballerina fairies that are featured on our ‘Bambini’ birthday cards. Today it’s the boy’s turn. Say hello to our colour characters, each with their own personal introduction on the back of each card.

Only one day to go before our first trade show of 2012, and there is still plenty to do! We’re currently working on our ‘Rosanna Rossi’ sign for the stand, which is taking longer than expected. However we hope it will look very smart once it’s completed! I will post some images very soon.

If you are a buyer who is interested to receive our new catalogue please get in touch. Alternately you can view our complete range of greeting cards at the NEC Spring Fair on the 5-9th February 2012.

1. I spotted this gorgeous ditzy floral/bird patterned plates which i thought was pretty. 2. I designed 4 floral wedding ring pillows and 60 invites for wedding commissions from my wedding site annawhitford.com. 3. We have been manic with packing international orders for our greeting cards for the past few weeks, and we hope to get them completed this week. 4. We celebrated my mum’s birthday with a lovely big bunch of Spring flowers. 5. Snowdrops are appearing everywhere. Spring is on its way! 6. My sister is a fabulous beauty therapist who has been practising colourful nail art on me!

I hope you all had a lovely weekend?