Kate Hadfield Designs

Hand-drawn Digital Scrapbooking kits and Clip Art for teachers, scrapbookers and crafters!

Hello, I’m Kate Hadfield. It’s nice to meet you!

I create fun and funky hand-drawn graphics to help you make beautifully illustrated scrapbook pages, craft projects and teaching resources and have fun while you do it!

My illustrations (also known as ‘doodles’!) are characterised by bright colours, a hand painted style and lots of fun little details. Whether you are a memory keeper recording your family’s stories, a teacher creating resources to inspire and educate little learners, or a crafter getting inky fingers and crafting up a storm I hope you will find something here that speaks to you!

I believe that art (even light-hearted, doodled art!) has the power to bring joy into everyone’s lives. For the last fifteen years I’ve been trying to add my own version of that creative joy to the world – one doodle at a time!

I hope that unzipping a set of my illustrations is like opening a little present to yourself and that creating with them makes you smile! All my illustrations start life as pencil drawings in my sketchbook, they are then hand-painted and digitized by me in my little studio here at my home in Cheshire, in the North-West of England. All my products are digital and instantly downloadable so you can start creating straight away!

Please pull up a comfy chair, make yourself at home and take a look around my little corner of the internet! While you’re here you might like to join my mailing list to keep up with the latest news (and free gifts!) or get social and hang out with me over on Instagram, Facebook or Pinterest. Please get in touch if you have any questions or if you would like to chat doodles!

About Kate Hadfield Designs

I have always been a doodler, a memory keeper, a photographer and a journaler. Way back in 2006 I discovered digital scrapbooking, a hobby that combined all my creative loves in one arty package. Scanning my own drawings to include in my scrapbook pages combined my hands-on artsy side with my geeky, technology loving side and Kate Hadfield Designs was born!

Over the years I found myself using my illustrations more and more in activities for my own children and for various school projects, and today I create graphics with both the creative crafter and the teacher-author in mind. I love knowing that my illustrations are helping scrapbookers to preserve their family memories and educators to create inspiring learning activities for their students.

About me

I live a simple life with my husband, two children and two dogs in a little town in North-West England. When I am not designing or scrapbooking you might find me enjoying the beautiful British countryside, eating the odd chocolate (or two), “helping” my husband renovate our house or watching Doctor Who. Everything stops for Doctor Who.

  • I’ve never met a pen I didn’t like.
  • I’m a football fan (football = soccer!)
  • I hate baked beans.
  • I love live music and try to go to as many concerts as I can. Cheesy pop is my favourite.
  • Despite being the World’s Worst Tennis Player (that’s an official title) I religiously watch the Wimbledon Championship every year.
  • I alphabetize my CDs and DVDs. My family laugh at me.
  • I LOVE Instagram, it’s absolutely my favourite place to hang out online.
A new / old set of Great British characters! This is one of my favourite sets of characters (and the one I have had the most requests for of late!). This new set is a remake of the original pack so if you have already purchased the old set head over to your account in the shop to download this shiny new version! ⁠ I can just about remember the punk era here in the UK (although I was more of a New Romantic girl myself!) I do remember seeing some punks with the most fabulous hair and clothing in London a few times as a child and wanting to dye my hair blue as a result. I never managed to dye my hair (although maybe one day I will!) but I knew I had to include a little nod to my punk idols in this set of British characters.⁠ There's a new collection of creepy-crawly critters is in the shop today! Here's the finished set including my little caterpillar friend I shared earlier in the week 🐛⁠ I've always had a bit of a fascination with caterpillars. As a child I loved finding and watching them and I was beside myself with excitement when we kept some at school and got to watch them transform into butterflies. I know for many people the butterflies are more appealing, but I've still got a soft spot for those wriggly little caterpillars. 💚⁠ Here are some of the monsters from my monster jigsaw puzzle (see my last post!). I do love drawing monsters, there's so much scope to create fun characters and inject a bit of monster personality into each one. This little pack has a special place in my heart as it was inspired by my children's birthday parties (and my own little monsters!). ⁠ I've been talking about how I created this monster jigsaw puzzle over on the blog today. This was such a fun project to work on and I'm really thrilled with how it turned out! 🧩 I always enjoy making my digital stash go further by making craft projects but I think this is a my favourite one so far. And it was SO easy!⁠ Happy Earth Day! I'd love to hear how you are marking Earth Day with your kids or your students, please tell me your plans! I usually donate but I'd love to do something more hands-on this year as well so all ideas would be very welcome. 💚💙⁠ And the prize for the biggest doodle goes to *drumroll please*....... this guy! 🌳🏆⁠ If you're celebrating this weekend I hope you have a lovely Easter! My plans for the weekend include yummy hot cross buns, some football watching (come on you Spurs!) and far too many chocolate eggs that's good for my waistline. I might even throw in a carvery roast dinner for good measure. Sounds like the perfect weekend to me! Happy Easter! 🐇🐤 🥕⁠

Kate Hadfield Designs in the press

In the heyday of papercrafting magazines I was a member of the Creative Scrapbooking Magazine design team and a regular contributor to The Scrapbook Magazine, Scrapbook Inspirations and Digital Artist Magazine. Projects and layouts using my illustrations have been published in a number of magazines including Digital Crafting Essentials, Papercrafter, Simply Cards and Papercraft, Complete Cardmaking, Papercraft Essentials and Crafts Beautiful. My illustrations have also been featured on the Create and Craft TV channel here in the UK.

I am the co-owner of the Gallery Standouts blog where we showcase some of the most outstanding digital scrapbook pages every day. I have been a guest on a number of creative websites including: Pencil Lines, Papercraft Junkies, It’s a Creative World, Hodge Podge Art, Scrapblog, The Daily Scrapper, The Daily Digi, DS Memories, Digi Shop Talk and UKScrappers.