Kate Hadfield Designs
Hand-drawn Digital Scrapbooking kits and Clip Art for teachers, scrapbookers and crafters!
There are some new old kits in the shop today! I’m continuing to work through my older doodle packs and create the coordinating stamps for them (not too many left to finish now – whoo-hoo!!) and sometimes when I work on older sets I find myself amending and adding to the collection in the process. …
I need to preface this blog post by saying that if you are not a fan of spiders, or snakes, or creepy-crawlies you might want to look away now (or at least not scroll to the bottom of this page!) – there are layouts with LOTS of spiders below! This month’s Featured Kit is packed …
It’s the first of the month again and so it’s time for another template challenge! Firstly, many congratulations to the winner of March’s challenge, Rafflecopter picked KairynLisa’s lovely birthday layout as our winner! Please message me over at the Lilypad for details of how to claim your prize Kairyn! Thank you to everyone who played along …
My pal Sara created these super cute Easter bag toppers that I am so excited to share with you today! I love bag toppers because they are so simple to make up (just print, cut out and fold over a bag of your favourite treats) and you can personalise them to make extra special little …
Happy St. Patrick’s Day! If you’re celebrating today I hope you have a great time and enjoy everything the day has to offer! Although it’s not a holiday we celebrate, I always love seeing all the St Patrick’s Day related antics on social media, especially the leprechaun traps! (I have to admit that I’m fascinated …
A little while ago I came across the most amazing hybrid pop-up box cards (created with my doodles!) and I’m SO excited to be able to share them with you today! I’m always a little bit in awe of papercrafters and the amazing creations they make, especially as my own scissor skills are very limited! …
A few months ago I asked my Facebook followers if they had any other creative hobbies (other than scrapbooking!) and there were so many varied answers from cake decorating to photograph, art journaling to making dolls! One hobby that came up again and again was sewing, knitting and crocheting – something that made me all …
Many congratulations to the winner of February’s challenge, Rafflecopter picked a gorgeous aquarium themed layout from Kerri as our winner! Please message me over at the Lilypad for details of how to claim your prize Kerri. Many thanks to everyone who played along with the challenge last month, I loved seeing your scrapbook pages (and …
Happy Valentine’s Day! If you are celebrating today, I hope you have a lovely day with those special people most dear to your heart! We don’t usually do much at all for Valentine’s day, but I think I will treat myself to some special chocolates tonight 😉 I’m excited to be sharing some Valentine’s / …
Are you a dog person? If so, you might like this month’s Featured Kit which is dedicated to man’s (and woman’s!) best friend! My Kinda Dog is an old favourite of mine – the Border Collie in this set was inspired by my own four legged friend (and my kids’ first dog!). I’ve already had …
I have a little freebie for you today as a thank you for all the love and support over the years. Christa has put together these lovely little doodled brads celebrating both my design anniversary and Valentine’s Day! I hope you have fun creating with them, if you do use them, I would love to …
Today is my design anniversary (what I think of as my ‘designiversary!’) – eleven years ago today I launched my doodles at The Lilypad! It only seems like yesterday, time really does fly when you’re having fun! I’ll be forever grateful to the fabulous Amy Martin for encouraging me to start designing and for giving …
Many congratulations to the winner of last month’s challenge, Rafflecopter picked Lisa’s lovely layout all about her grandson as our winner! Please message me over at the Lilypad for details of how to claim your prize Lisa. Many thanks to everyone who played along with the challenge last month, I loved seeing your pages in …
Happy new year and congratulations to the winner of last month’s challenge, Rafflecopter picked Ferdy’s colourful Christmas page “Us” as the winner! Please message me over at the Lilypad for details of how to claim your prize Ferdy, many thanks to everyone who played along with the challenge! This month we have not one, but …
Christa has been busy creating lots of new brads and tapes in time for the Designer Surprises event this weekend! Along with the new releases in the shop, she also created these lovely freebie sets of dodoled brads to help you celebrate the end of the year and the start of the new! Creative Team …
With Christmas Day almost upon us, I wanted to take a moment to share some new layouts from the Creative Team based on the Christmas Story. I have quite a few photos from nativity plays that I still need to scrapbook, including some of my son as Joseph (with his best friend as the donkey!) …
I’ve shared a few creative planners here on the blog before, today I’m excited to be sharing my own planner with you! I have been using a modified bullet journal system for my day-to-day and business planning for a few years now (you can see more about the original bullet journal system here) but I’ve …
Today is Christmas Jumper Day here in the UK! I am wearing a particularly festive Christmas-tree inspired jumper, complete with faux tinsel and pom-pom baubles! And feeling very festive in it too, In honour of Christmas Jumper Day, I’m sharing some lovely layouts from the Creative Team featuring their own Christmas sweaters, ugly or not! …
The temperatures are dropping here at the moment, the Met Office have even issued a weather warning for snow this weekend! We don’t usually get much snow so it’s quite an event when we get a few inches – snowmen will be made and sledges will be sledged upon! This month’s Featured Kit has a …
Many congratulations to the winner of last month’s challenge, Raffleopter picked Timmi’s fun Halloween themed pumpkin carving page: Pumpkin King as the winner! Congratulations Timmi, please message me over at The Lilypad for details of how to claim your prize. Many thanks to everyone who played along with the challenge and scrapped with the template! …
Do you scrapbook the downs of life as well as the ups?! I have a few scrapbook pages devoted to the inevitable bumps, bruises and illnesses (chicken pox, I’m looking at you!) that my own children have experienced over the years! With that in mind, I recently revamped Bruises and Breaks – a very old …
Many congratulations to the winner of last month’s blog challenge: Stephanie with her really fun layout all about burgers! Yum! Please message me over at The Lilypad for details of how to claim your prize Stephanie. Many thanks to everyone who played along with last month’s challenge and shared links to their pages, it’s always …
A little while ago I came across an amazing hybrid project on YouTube that took my breath away and I’m so excited to share it with you today! I have a bit of a soft spot for hybrid projects created with my illustrations, it makes me happy to know that what started as a sketchbook …
My pal and Creative Team member Christa has been busy creating lots of new spooky elements with my illustrations, just in time for our Halloween Bash! There are three new sets of Halloween themed tapes over in the shop, and two new sets of brads. Christa also put together this fun mini-set of brads for …
