Mother' Little Helper

Very excited that the Mother's Little Helper website is now up and running! I have enjoyed working on the illustrations and putting together the website so much! Check it out at www.motherslittlehelper.net.au

Meet Fairy Peggy...

A cold Sunday afternoon (for the Sunshine Coast anyway) spent indoors making peg dollies with my little girl. Brought back memories of making these with my mum, a very creative lady who I learn to appreciate more every day! Isn't it funny how we don't really understand what our mums do for us until we become mums ourselves? Anyway, Fairy Peggy and her friend Miss Lacy are now treasured friends of my little girl, made together with love, and therefore so much more valuable than all the expensive bought toys in the world!

Meet Fairy Peggy...

...and her (de-winged) friend, Miss Lacy

Coastal rebranding

A slap on my wrist for neglecting my blog again... been trying to keep my Facebook page up-to-date with new work but my poor little blog has been missing out!

Here are a few of my designs for a recent complete rebranding for a local Physiotherapist...

Logo rebranding for Coastal Physiotherapy

Business cards

Website redesign - visit the new website at www.coastalphysio.com.au

The De-Clutter Project

A couple of recent Mookoo designs for logo and business cards for The De-Clutter Project...

Paper dolls

One of the great things about being a mum is remembering and reliving all the things you used to love to do as a child. Kind of like a second childhood. So, who enjoyed making paper dolls more? My little ones or their mummy? Let's just say that I was still sat at the table sticking bits of paper and sparkly stuff onto my creation long after everyone else had lost interest... and here is my end result. So much fun!

Love, nourish and indulge

I get very involved in all of my projects (I think I may even design and illustrate things in my sleep!) so I am very excited to see the Oz Goddess products taking shape at last. Here is the final poster and packaging designed to promote this new range of natural skincare products. I had a lovely email of appreciation back from my client, Courtney, which is one of the best parts of my job (the best part being the actual design bit, of course!)

The Mookoo girl

A friend recently asked me how I created the illustration of the girl used on my business cards, which is also used as my blog icon, and can also be found gracing my main portfolio page on my website. After I had described my process involving a combination of hand drawn illustration, photography and Photoshop she suggested that it would make an interesting blog, so here goes... this one is for you Donna!

1. The original face was hand drawn in black ink on white
textured paper, then photographed and opened in Photoshop.

2. I photographed a selection of different textures (interesting 

fabrics, painted canvases etc.) and pasted them into the face, 
hair and flower, tweaking the colours where necessary.

3. Details in the face (white behind eyes, pink cheeks and the lips)
were then added using the airbrush tool in Photoshop.

4. Another close up fabric photograph was used 

for the background of my business card.

5. The torn scraps of paper which hold the words Mookoo Design
were crumpled, photographed and then brought into Photoshop
and shadows added manually to give the illusion of depth. 

6. The final wording was overlayed, and the
Mookoo Design business cards were created!