Awards & Achievements

Supplying my greeting cards to The National Trust has been one of my favourite achievements. My cards were sold at several of their shops, including Chartwell where Winston Churchill lived. I visited my local site Calke Abbey where I was thrilled to see my cards on display in the shop, as well as discovering that…

The RHS Wisley Gift Shop and Plant Centre flagship store, and Harlow Carr Gardens have stocked a selection of my greeting cards throughout the past year. It has been an absolute pleasure to supply them with my summery greeting cards. Whilst on a business trip to Harrogate in July I popped along to the beautiful…

As Christmas comes around again it’s that time of year when I start to consider what I would like to hang from my Christmas tree or what theme or colour palette to choose. Decorations are often a treasured part of Christmas that we add pieces to year after year. I have lots of metal and…

English Heritage have stocked a selection of my greeting cards for a few years at various sites across the UK. This all began with a specially commissioned brief to design four cards and tree decorations in collaboration with Tinker Tailor, who produce embroidered, beautifully crafted tin decorations amongst many other hand finished decorations. I worked…

I am delighted to share with you that for a second year running I have been working with the lovely buying team at Cotswold Collections to create a bespoke Christmas card box pack full of my illustrated cards. Last year sales went really well and so 2019 has seen the launch of 4 of my…

This month I celebrate 8 years of Fay’s Studio. How time flies when you’re having fun! I welcomed this milestone with my largest single order to date from my customer of 8 years, Paperchase! For many months an order of almost 11,000 Father’s Day cards has been keeping me busy in house hand-finishing my ‘Hero’…

Just before Christmas I received an invite from the Highgrove Estate to a special Christmas event they were holding for their staff and suppliers. I was told HRH The Prince of Wales was attending to meet and greet his staff of the Estate and the Highgrove shops. Highgrove Pop-up shop, Cribbs Causeway, Bristol. I was…

In February whilst winding down from a busy Spring Fair International at the Birmingham NEC, I was approached by the Special Projects Manager from Highgrove about my British Birdillustrations on my trade stand. After a lengthy talk about my illustrations and how the cards are produced, we agreed to work together after the show on…

This year Fay’s Studio turns 5 years old, (I might have a little cupcake to celebrate) I was actually reminded of this by the editor of Greetings Today magazine. How time has flown since those days selling my cards at craft fairs, and family and friends saying in jest, what if one day my cards…

Lucky me, I returned from a lovely summer break to discover that on Monday 5th August the Henries Finalists were revealed and my ‘Sweet Tooth’ Valentine’s Day range was voted as a finalist along with 5 other publishers in the Best Spring Seasons category. I couldn’t believe it!       If you don’t know…