Kate Hadfield Designs
Hand-drawn Digital Scrapbooking kits and Clip Art for teachers, scrapbookers and crafters!
We’re in the last few weeks of the school year here now and we’re looking forward to the long lazy days of summer (and hoping that the notorious British weather cooperates!) so today I wanted to share some Summer Team Favourite layouts with you! Grab yourself a cool drink and some sunnies and soak up …
My daughter and I are playing along with a new (to me!) creative challenge at the moment: Index Card a Day (ICAD). As the name suggests, the premise is to create something (a drawing, doodle, painting, poem, calligraphy, art journaling, collage – anything goes!) on an index card everyday during June and July. ICAD is …
Many thanks to everyone who played along with last month’s template challenge, I loved seeing all the layouts pop up in the gallery! Congratulations to May’s random winner Judy aka bonnenuit with her beautiful Spring Irises layout! Please check your PMs over at The Lilypad for details of how to claim your prize Judy! This …
Our house is a bit of a building site at the moment, what started off as a little project in the kitchen has turned into a big revamp of most of the ground floor of the house (as these things often do in old houses!) Living amongst the piles of tools and brick dust inspired …
A few weeks ago the April ScrawlrBox popped through my door (ScrawlrBox is a UK based art supply subscription – every month I get new lots of lovely new arty surprises by post!)! Here’s what treats this month’s box contained: Featured Artist card (April’s artist is manga illustrator Mina Petrovia aka Mistiqarts), ScrawlrBox sticker, card …
Every month I look forward to putting together the Teacher Team inspiration blog post, the team always comes up with so many fun ideas and creative learning projects! I hope they will help to inspire you to get crafty with your digital supplies. Jennifer from Everything Just So has created what I think might be …
If you have been following me over on Instagram you might have seen some of my recent sketchbook pages and kawaii style doodles I’ve been playing around with! This doodle was inspired by a weekly Instagram drawing challenge and as soon as I saw that the prompt was “exotic animals” all I could think was …
With (inter)National Scrapbooking Day being THE big event in May, this month I wanted to showcase some Team Favourites all about our favourite hobby: scrapbooking! It’s maybe not the first subject you would think to make a layout about, but this hobby means so much to so many people it can be an important part …
Christa has been busy creating two new packs of Overlays for us to play with – you asked for some more generic, everyday overlays and Christa kindly created them! Perfect for adding a subtle doodled twist to your papers and backgrounds, both Everyday Overlays and Everyday Overlays 2 are included in the 30% off iNSD …
My other two new doodle releases this weekend are also in keeping with my On the Farm BYOC doodles farming theme! Farmer’s Garden is a collection of fruit and vegetable gardening themed doodles with a farming twist, whereas Vegetable Patch is packed of healthy, tasty veggies! Both packs are on sale at 30% off all weekend! …
Happy (almost!) (inter)National Scrapbooking Day! We’re kicking off the iNSD celebrations with a big old sale! Save 30% on everything in the shop through Monday 9th, no coupon code necessary – just load up your cart and go! My first new release for the iNSD weekend is also part of The Lilypad’s May BYOC collection! The theme …
Happy Teacher Appreciation Day! My pal Sara recently created some fun printable bookmarks for her school library and we thought you might also like to use them with your children (or students) as they have been a big hit in Sara’s school! There are ten different reading themed bookmarks in a ready-to-print PDF file, just …
Many thanks to everyone who played along with last month’s challenge, I very much enjoyed seeing all the different interpretations of last month’s bold template! Congratulations to April’s random winner knclark who created Sophia, a wonderful fairytale inspired layout. Please check your PMs over at The Lilypad for details of how to claim your prize …
Get ready for a blast from the past with this month’s Featured Kit! Harking back to the days of ra-ra skirts, BIG hair, florescent pink socks and blue mascara, our Featured Kit for May is Child of the 80s! This is one of my all-time favourite kits, there’s something about the bright colours and associated …
ScrawlrBox is a monthly art supplies subscription based here in the UK, I recently subscribed and received the March ScrawlrBox as my first box. There was something very Christmas-morning-ish about receiving the branded cardboard box containing mystery tissue-paper wrapped art goodies! Here’s what I unwrapped (with a big grin on my face!): Featured Artist card …
Welcome to this month’s Teacher Team inspiration round up! With spring finally here (in the Northern Hemisphere at least!) and Earth Day celebrations in full swing, the team put together lots of seasonal projects this month! I hope they will help to inspire you to get crafty with your digital supplies! Chad from Male Kindergarten …
Welcome to my stop on The Lilypad’s “Life is an Adventure” Blog Hop! The TLP designers are busy preparing for International Scrapbooking Day (iNSD) and we are getting in the party mood with this fun blog hop full of free gifts for you! Simply hop through all the stops to collect all the pieces of our HUGE collaboration kit …
A little while ago I came across a class over at Creative Bug that really inspired me to get back into playing in my sketchbook! I was looking for a fun art project that my daughter and I could work on together and discovered Lisa Congdon’s wonderful Sketchbook Explorations courses. They have really inspired both of …
This month the Creative Team are sharing their favourite birthday inspired pages and projects with us! I love creating doodles for birthdays and celebrations, they always have such a happy feel to them! You can see more birthday themed pages over in the Kate Hadfield Designs Gallery at The Lilypad. Hip Hip Hooray by Kirstie …
Today’s new release is the one of the winning suggestions from my Custom Doodle Contest! I mixed tooth fairy themed doodles with some tooth mouse illustrations along with colours inspired by the April BYOC to create this fun, toothy pack! It was really interesting to research all the different ways people across the world mark …
Thank you to everyone who played along with last month’s challenge, it’s always fun to see all the different ways one template can inspire lots of different layouts! Congratulations to March’s random winner Silent Ranks who created this lovely page, all about her scrapbooking addiction! Please check your PMs over at the The Lilypad for …
The Featured Kit for this month, is one that is very special to me! Baked With Love was inspired by some special childhood memories of baking with my mother and grandmother, along with more recent baking escapades with my own children! Both the doodles and the stamps will be 30% off all month, or you can …
It’s time to catch up with what else the Teacher Team has been creating! Chad from Male Kindergarten Teacher turned his classroom into Spy Headquarters this month! His pupils worked together to solve the mystery of the missing popcorn machine, they even had secret agent badges and disguises to help them! I’m sure this is …
With Easter round the corner, I wanted to share with you some wonderful projects and activities that the Kate Hadfield Designs Teacher Team has been working on – from Easter egg hunts to writing prompts and fun class favours! Chad put together a fabulous Easter Egg Hunt for his kindergarten classroom, complete with clues and …
