05/09/2025
I often get asked where it all began… and it was just like this picture!⬇️
It was 2017, I’d just turned 18 and had signed up to Farnborough College to study graphic design at A-levels. I decided to set up my own business on the side, creating personalised handmade cards.
My Mum and Nan were so incredible, coming with me to every craft fair within a 60 minute drive, taking up a lot of weekends and some weekday evenings (particularly near Christmas)🥹
I’d go to college during the day and make all of my cards at night. A whopping £1 for an A6 card and £1.50 for A5 😂
The more I posted online and shared in local community groups, the quicker it evolved into designing things digitally. Wedding stationery mainly, but also things like menus, flyers and business cards.
Once the 2 years at college finished, I decided university wasn’t for me and quickly landed a job as an artworker locally. The business continued to build throughout this job, and my next one at a printers, before I took the leap in 2019 to go self-employed.
THANKFULLY, my designs had evolved to be an awful lot better than these cards by then 😂
And here we are today. Coming up to 9 years running my what should have been side hustle, working with some incredible businesses 🙌🏼