Small Business Saturday Downing Street Reception
7th December 2013Read moreI was honoured to be invited to a reception at Downing Street to celebrate the UK’s first Small Business Saturday. Cakes with Faces was featured by Small Business Saturday as one of 100 small businesses, one per day in the run-up to Saturday 7th December. It was really exciting to be part of the day – and I got to
New in the Gallery: Cactus Series – Hot Air Balloon
1st December 2013Read moreIf you look in the gallery you can see my Cactus Series so far, of a cute cactus character in all sorts of spike-related sticky situations! My dad loves gardening and is a big cactus fan, so every time it’s his birthday or fathers day it’s fun to think up a new cactus scenario and draw a new cartoon of
Vote for Us in the NEO Awards 2013!
29th November 2013Read moreCakes with Faces is nominated for a NEO Award! Vote for us in the Best Specialist Company category! (Voting has now closed) The NEO Awards are organised by NEO, the UK’s anime and manga magazine, to recognise readers’ favourite anime series, mangas, games, Japanese bands, distributors and retailers. We’re honoured to be nominated for Best Specialist Company. We’re up some
New: Kids T-Shirts
29th November 2013Read moreEvery now and then I get emails asking if my designs are available in children’s sizes. There are already the Cute but Deadly baby grows for babies, but there was nothing in the middle. So now as a trial I’ve had some t-shirts printed in kids sizes, and they look really cute! Initially it’s just three designs: All the Best
Small Business Saturday
28th November 2013Read moreCakes with Faces is proud to be supporting Small Business Saturday, an initiative to encourage support for independent small businesses. On Saturday 7th December they’re encouraging people to do their Christmas shopping at small businesses and eat at local restaurants instead of large international chains. The day began in the USA and is being held in the UK for the
Christmas Gift Ideas
26th November 2013Read moreSupport an independent designer and spread the cake-y love this Christmas by getting your friends or family a fun Christmas present from Cakes with Faces! To help with your Christmas shopping, I’ve gathered together some Christmas gift ideas for vegetarians, fans of Japan, cakes, toast or anyone who likes cute and colourful things. Everything’s delivered to your door super-fast, so
MCM Comic Con Birmingham 2013 Photos
26th November 2013Read moreThank you to everyone who came along to MCM Birmingham Comic Con at the NEC! The show was bigger than last time, with a hall for Memorabilia joined to a hall for Comic Con (also a considerably large area that the floorplan said was the UK Garrison changing area!). Birmingham is a local con for me, so it was great
Spotty Cake Fun
19th November 2013Read moreIt’s fun to make repeating patterns and play around with different colours in Illustrator. I was messing around with some cute cake characters and made this fun and colourful spotty cake pattern. The dots match the icing, in yummy pastel ice cream flavours (including chocolate!). I think it’d look great on loads of stuffs, like pencil cases, gifts or stationery
MCM Birmingham Comic Con Floorplan
18th November 2013Read moreYou can come and see me this weekend at MCM Birmingham Comic Con at the NEC! It’s on all day Saturday 23rd and Sunday 24th November. The comicon is twinned with Memorabilia, and tickets give you access to both shows. The comic con part of the show is a smaller version of the London comic con, with stalls, anime and manga,
Colourful T-Shirts for Men
13th November 2013Read moreColourful T-Shirts for Men I think it’s sad that when you go into clothes shops the mens clothes are always so boring. So many mens t-shirts are unexciting dark colours, so I’ve made it part of Cakes with Faces’ mission to provide men with fun and colourful t-shirts! When I first started out, I ordered designs in either ladies or
T-Shirt Spotted on TV!
9th November 2013Read moreOur Never-ending Supply of Cakes t-shirt is famous! It was spotted on TV on BBC 2, worn by someone in the audience of Don’t Panic: The Truth About World Population with Professor Hans Rosling. It was so exciting to see one of my designs on screen, in the wild, and I was so pleased that someone had decided to wear
MCM London Comic Con October 2013
2nd November 2013Read moreThank you to everyone who came along to MCM Expo London Comic Con. It’s such a busy show, and this time took up both sides of ExCel for the first time! Here’s how the stall looked – with three new t-shirt designs it was tricky to fit everything on! I think I’ll have to start booking a bigger stall… On
Kawaii Lolita Alice in Wonderland
1st November 2013Read moreLolita Alice in Wonderland I always love seeing lolita fashion when I go to cons (especially at Hyper Japan!) and waste probably too much time looking at pretty dresses online and in the Gothic Lolita Bible. So it’s about time I drew one myself – here’s my cute lolita inspired by Alice in Wonderland. And a tea dress goes well
Photoshop Fun: Yui from K-On!
21st October 2013Read moreK-On is my favourite anime – I have to stop myself buying all the K-On figures I see (although I did treat myself to the K-On London movie figure set when I was in Tokyo). My “Windmill” Yui’s wearing a white High School Tea-time t-shirt, so I thought it would be fun to Photoshop it into a Cakes with Faces
MCM London Comic Con Floorplan – October 2013
13th October 2013Read moreIt’s not long now till MCM Expo London Comic Con, which is on for 3 days 25-27 October at ExCel. It keeps getting bigger every time, and this October, for the first time, will be taking up halls on both sides of ExCel. I’ll be in the hall that it’s usually in, and the other side will be for queuing,
Marshmalloween: Marshmallow Halloween!
13th October 2013Read moreMarshmalloween It’s not too early for Halloween drawings is it? I used to be a lot more into Halloween than I am these days, but it’s still fun to draw some cute Halloween marshmallows! Happy Marshmalloween everybody! More Cute Artwork www.facebook.com/cakeswithfaces / www.twitter.com/cakeswithfaces
New T-Shirts: Cakezilla, Flying Saucer Attack and I Love Cakes
9th October 2013Read moreThree brand new t-shirt designs for Autumn 2013 have hit the online shop! I’m really happy with how they’ve have come out – I hope you like them (you should do, because they feature dinosaurs, flying saucers and cakes!). All of them are available as mens t-shirts and ladies slim fit tees. And they’re all lovely water-based screenprints, which means
Making a Bag – Arts and Crafts
29th September 2013Read moreMaking a Bag Recently I got some fabric printed with my own designs, to make a bag and a dress or skirt. Having sewn nothing but t-shirt labels for the past year or so, I decided to start with the bag! In the past I’ve made a couple of dresses, cushions, curtains, a tiny bag, and I’ve perfected anime girl
Welcome to My New Website!
20th September 2013Read moreThe Cakes with Faces website’s had a redesign – welcome to the new improved version, I hope you like it! What’s new? Background: We’ve said goodbye to the old sprinkles background. This was original Cakes with Faces style, from 2009/2010 when I first started my website as a collection of my drawings. You can still see the original pattern on some
New Drawing: Dinosaurs on Wheels
20th September 2013Read moreRecently I’ve been ordering some new t-shirt designs (which will be here soon in 2-3 weeks, eep!). While I was working out one of the designs I was thinking about the theme “If dinosaurs didn’t die out”, and drew this skateboarding dinosaur, with the caption Dinosaurs on Wheels. Sadly it didn’t make it as one of the final t-shirt designs,