PaperCrafter Magazine / / Two-page feature!

We are honoured to have received a lovely two page feature in 'PaperCrafter' magazine! The feature follows a day our studio & showcases some our illustrative cards, our brand new colourful wedding & party decorations & our new limited cushion collection. Find out more about PaperCrafter magazine on their website.

(A special thank you goes to to our fab product photographers navyblur & our gorgeous model Emma).

British-Made Lampshades!

We are so excited about our new British-made lampshade collection & we adore the fun & playful photography navyblur did for us! Eight of our key prints are available & they will literally brighten any home! You can even find our vibrant 'lampshade stack' in the 'Triumph's Next Maker' competition. We are so grateful to be in the running & appreciate everyones lovely votes! You can find our lampshade collection in our shop & you can vote for us via the Stylist Magazine website. Thank you!

Wedding Feature / / Rock My Wedding

Happy Monday everyone! I hope you all had a fab weekend. Today I'm really excited to share with you the lovely feature that our wedding received on the super famous & popular Rock My Wedding. I absolutely ADORE this website it's a must see for any bride to be, it's crammed with beautiful photography, inspiration & whole host of brilliant articles & hits & tips!

I would like to thank the lovely Charlotte (creator of Rock My Wedding) for her kind words and for building such a brilliant platform & also the talented photography duo navyblur for their usual amazingness!)

You can view the full article here, I hope you enjoy it :-)

Are you planning a wedding at the moment? How are you finding it? I'd love to hear all of your exciting ideas. We just ADORE weddings!

Rachael x

We are thrilled to announce that we now design for the wonderful wedding world! You can check out our collection here.

Wedding Feature / / MOYO Magazine

I recently shared a little sneak peek of our special day! I'm pleased to announce that I shared another glimpse of our wedding details over in MOYO magazine (pages 48 to 55).

Stay tuned as I plan to write several detailed posts and show your our beautiful day through the gorgeous photography that we received from navyblur.

There are so many people to thank & so many images to show you. I can't wait to showcase them on the blog. In the mean time I hope you enjoy reading our magazine article & seeing our sneak peek.

(I also shared some snapshots from our honeymoon heaven).

A huge thank you goes to our amazing suppliers:

Print services - Century Studios 

Chair covers - Wedding and Dreams
Flowers - Ello Flower 

Cakes - Swirly Sweet
Make up - Airess

Hair - Ben Hodgson
Venue & catering - Sandburn Hall  

Lanterns & parasols - The Hanging Lantern Company 

Lighting hire - Wedding Venue Lighting
Wedding dress - Scarlet Poppy

Shoes - Upper Street
Entertainment - Vibetwown & Hannah Rockcliffe

Photography - navyblur

I'm pleased to announce that I recently launched a wedding collection.

Design & styling - rachaeltaylordesigns.co.uk/shop 

New product shoot!

We are been overwhelmed this week by the masses of stunning photography supplied by our photographers navyblur. Here's a little preview at our brand new fun styled shoot!

Lots of the new items have already been added to our shop so be sure to check out the new design goodies! (We will continue to update the store over the coming weeks).

A huge thank you goes to our beautiful model Emma Kenny.

Shop our brand here

If you are interested in ‘The Art and Business of Surface Pattern Design (the e-course)’ we are thrilled to announce we are running a new series (starting on August 19th 2013) Register here. Also, don’t miss out on our next run of Module 2 ‘Creating Your Professional identity’ which is running 19th August 2013! Brought to you by Rachael Taylor and Beth Kempton.

Rachael on Twitter: @rachtdesign Beth on Twitter: @DoWhatYouLoveXx

You can also read some magic words from some our past students who have gone on to achieve some amazing things!

Wonderful Wedding!

Happy Friday everyone! Today is very quick post as I wanted to share with you my lovely news, I'm now a Mrs! We had our lovely wedding ceremony a few weeks ago & just got back from our fantastic honeymoon to Dubai & then the Maldives.

As you can imagine I had quite a non traditional wedding & it was crammed with pretty bright colours & pattern! It really was a beautiful day, we had so much fun! 

I will be writing lots about the big day (We have a bazillion thank you messages to write! There are lots of truly amazing people who made our day so special). I'll share lots of our professional wedding images too, here's a little sneak peek...

 

Image courtesy of our amazing photographers navyblur (we can't wait to see the rest!)

  Our ocean villa in the Maldives (phone snap shot)

Beautiful Product Photography!

We are massive fans of our wonderful photographers NavyBlur who took a beautiful range of shots for us which you can see all over our online shop! We decided to create some delicious collages from these lovely photographs!

Find Navyblur at their website or follow their blog, they are constantly posting their gorgeous wedding shots!

Clockwise from top left: Signature Tea Towel Collection, 50's Inspired Tea Towel, Black Etched Floral Tea Towel (this item is currently 50% off in our shop!)

Clockwise from left: Black Etched Floral Apron, Pink Etched Floral Apron & Turquoise Etched Floral Oven Mitts (all of these items are currently 50% off in our shop!)

Clockwise from top left: Signature Tea Towel Collection, Floral Sprigs Tea Towel & Brown Cow Parsley Tea Towel.

Clockwise from top left: Signature Tea Towel Collection, Layered Shapes Tea Towel, Pink Etched Floral Tea Towel (this is currently 50% off in our shop!)

Clockwise from left: Orange Etched Floral Apron, Turquoise Etched Floral Apron & Turquoise Etched Floral Oven Mitts (all of these items are currently 50% off in our shop!)

Clockwise from left: Pink Etched Floral Apron, Black Etched Floral Apron & Black Etched Floral Oven Mitts (all of these items are currently 50% off in our shop!)

Clockwise from top left: Signature Tea Towel Collection, Scribble Shells Tea Towel & Turquoise Etched Floral Tea Towel (this item is currently 50% off in our shop!)

Clockwise from left: Origin Tea Towel Collection, Doodle Squares Tea Towel & Orange Etched Floral Tea Towel.

Clockwise from top left: Signature Tea Towel Collection, Textured Honesty Tea Towel & Mauve Cow Parsley Tea Towel.

Clockwise from left: Turquoise Etched Floral Apron & Orange Etched Floral Oven Mitt (both of these items are currently 50% off in our shop!)

Clockwise from left: Origin Tea Towel Collection & Bohemian Tea Towel

Hello Spring & SUNSHINE discount!

We have had enough of the cold weather & are so ready for SPRING! Over the last few days the sun has come out to play & we are LOVING it! To celebrate the sun we are running a special promo code. Simply enter the word SUNSHINE at the checkout to receive a massive 30% off! all canvas bags, greetings, paper goods & kitchen textiles. (Promo code valid until Friday 22nd Feb).

Here are a selection of colourful, sunny images to brighten up your day! (Photography by the amazing navyblur).

If you like any of our products displayed you can buy them in our online shop.

(*Offer excludes gadgets, lampshades & licensed collections)

Some very special shoes!

Happy Friday everyone! Today I wanted to share a design I created for a very EXCITING competition with the fabulous RockNRollBride & IF Ladies. The competition was to design your own wedding shoes. Yes, you heard it right! DESIGNING SHOES! As you can imagine I have a fun, colourful wedding planned so this would really be the icing on the cake!

I have literally designed everything for my wedding from the dress, right through to the wedding stationery & decorations. To wear a pair of shoes adorned with my own hand drawn surface pattern designs would mean so much to me!

My amazing photographers navyblur would have so much fun shooting these! Like me they have quirky fun taste & are also colour lovers!

I'm keeping my fingers & toes crossed & I can't wait to see all of the other fabulous entries. If you are a bride to be & you wish to enter this AMAZING competiton you can find out more information here.

Sneak peek!

We have been super busy lately following on from the success we had at Top Drawer. We have also recently expanding our product ranges & design collections! We worked with the fantastic photography duo navyblur to create a fun new range of lifestyle images (you can view a selection of their fab images here & here) that we used across our new catalogues & promotional flyers. One of the key reasons for the new photography was to have lots of beautiful & quirky images for my ongoing website development.

We wanted to share with you today a little sneak peek of our new online web shop that we have recently created. We purposely had a bespoke design that was custom built so it felt very much like my brand with lots of quirky styling & personal touches. We want it to feel fun, relaxed & easy to use, we worked with a very clever company called the Mint Works who successfully managed to create the shop from a very challenging brief!

The shop is still under development but here's a sneak peek, I hope you like it!

New Photography (Part 2!)

Following on from yesterdays post we wanted to share some more of our new fun photography! We hope you like the images as much as we do. Thanks again Christine & Xander! (From navyblur).

Signature tea towel collection (above)

Retro Organic Leaves tea towel (above)

Cow Parsley Apron collection (above)

Apple Green Cow Parsley apron (above)

Quirky Floral Stems canvas bag (above)

Cow Parsley kitchen textile collection (above)

Sea Green Quirky Motifs canvas bag (above)

Scribble Shells canvas bag (above)

50's Inspired canvas bag (above)