Tiger Lily

Hot off the press, excitingly here is Tiger Lily, a fabulously eye catching greetings collection I created in a new collaboration with Portfolio Cards. The everyday range features a rich, vibrant colour palette with accents of neon and flourishes of gold foil - perfect timing to brighten a gloomy June day. Lush illustrations inspired by the natural world portray wild, exotic flora and fauna. The design style embraces a flamboyant, elegant and painterly approach. Each design is printed in the UK and is packed with a pearlised envelope. Launched at Progressive Greetings Live 2019 and soon to be available in the shops!

TIGER LILY | EMILY HAUCK KARIKA NOVA

above: a selection of designs from the tiger lily collection I designed for portfolio cards, launched at pg live 2019, available to stock now direct from portfolio cards. 

#tigerlily #portfoliocards #emilyhauck #pglive2019 #pglive #pglivelondon #greetings #greetingcards #design #illustration #paperlove

PG Live 2019

Ah, what a fantastic day at PG Live yesterday. It was so lovely to catch up with everyone and fabulous to see the amazing new projects up on the walls. 

Hugely exciting to find the beautiful little new range Aurora designed for Cinnamon Aitch shimmering delightfully with it's special gold foil. We have added some fantastic new designs to the Cobalt range which premiered at last year's show. In a brand new collaboration with Portfolio excitingly two wonderful new collections launched, the richly colourful Tiger Lily & the very lovely sparkly Pearl Drops. More on the fabulous newness soon, in the meantime here are some snaps from the show.

PG LIVE 2019 | EMILY HAUCK KARIKA NOVA

above clockwise from the top left: brand new aurora cards in their fab dispensor on the cinnamon aitch stand, my lovely coordinating pink gfsmith show pass cover, a peek of the cobalt range, the view from the balcony at the business design centre, photo of the wonderful new tiger lily collection on the wall at portfolio, close up of a sparkly new pearl drops card, fantastic new cobalt designs, the fabulous show bunting by louise tiler, my favourite tiger lily card.

#pglive2019 #pglive #pglivelondon #greetings #greetingcards #cinnamonaitch #portfoliocards #emilyhauck #design #illustration

Heartwood Forest

It's a buzzing week ahead for many with the PG Live Show opening on Tuesday so I thought I'd take a moment out to share some photos from our visit to the beautiful Heartwood Forest last weekend. Admittedly it doesn't look very forest like at the moment because it is a new project set up by the Woodland Trust to reforest agricultural land. 600,000 new trees have been planted with plans for many more including an orchard. I recently watched David Attenborough's program Climate Change - the Facts (28min30 for the forests) which certainly brings home how important these reforestation projects are. It is something we are aware of in the Greetings industry. I'm always happy when I can add the FSC (non profit organisation promoting responsible forest management) logo on a new design and when using specialist eco papers. It's a double win for me, by supporting projects such as these we help the environment whilst at the same time gaining the health benefits of forest bathing. We certainly had a lot of fun at Heartwood.

HEARTWOOD FOREST | EMILY HAUCK KARIKA NOVA

above: little miss G and mr J taking in the wildlife in heartwood forest - pinecones, poppies and dandelion clocks were definite favourites. 

#heartwoodforest #woodlandtrust #forest #reforestation #fsc #climatechange #forestbathing  

Luminaire Christmas

Just as the summer weather is kicking off I have received fab new samples of Christmas Luminaire. As quite often happens in the world of greetings whilst many are booking their beach holidays I've been having fun drawing Christmas trees! Following on from the lovely everyday range, we have added 30+ new festive designs. Here's a sneak peek of what to look forward to this coming festive season in the Luminaire collection from Katie Phythian Design.

LUMINAIRE CHRISTMAS | EMILY HAUCK KARIKA NOVA

above: a selection of cards from the luminaire christmas additions I designed for katie phythian design, available now for trade direct from katie phythian design. 

#paperlove #luminaire #christmas #katiephythiandesign #katiephythian #contemporarydesign #painterly #new #iridescent #crystals #fresh #independentshops #exciting #stationerylove

Spring Adventures

Well that was a longer spring break than I intended! It's been a fast paced few weeks with extra projects to fit in. Happily it does mean that there will be lots of exciting news in the coming weeks of new designs, a good portion of which will be launching at Progressive Greetings Live! Can't wait!

SPRING ADVENTURES | EMILY HAUCK KARIKA NOVA

above: I did manage to sneak out from the desk to the great outdoors and took this lovely pic of mr J wading through flowering wild garlic. 

#spring #wildgarlic #adventure #excitingprojects #pglive

Spring Break

Ooh I'm loving all the spring flowers popping up at the moment. I'm taking a little seasonal break from the Karika Nova blog. I'll be back soon with news of exciting new releases and projects. In the meantime catch me on Instagram + twitter for updates. Wishing you all a lovely Mothering Sunday and a fab Easter x

SPRING BREAK | IMAGE EMILY HAUCK KARIKA NOVA

above: on a theme following lovely blue's in mother's day and fabulous blue fish, here's a picture i took on the ashridge estate of their famous amazing bluebells - pop over in late april early may to catch them, keep an eye on their bluebell watch for updates!

#bluebells #spring #easter #happyeaster #springbreak

Mothering Sunday Edit SS19

It's a late evening post this week owing to a busy few days. I've been shopping for Mother's Day cards for my Mum and Grandma. It's a great year (as last) of fab designs from on trend rainbows and figurative empowered ladies to sweet animals and classic flowers. Loving the subtle blue colours coming through. I found it very difficult to choose! Favourite's below including the ones I bought and others I would like to receive myself heh!

MOTHERING SUNDAY EDIT SS19 | EMILY HAUCK KARIKA NOVA

clockwise from the top left: love the colours on this floral to a special grandma louise tiler card available from karenza paperie, on trend rainbow mum card from ohh deer, lovely koala mother's day card from noi publishing, mother's yay mother's day card from oliver bonas, claire picard to my wonderful mum from cinnamon aitch, how sweet is this 90s mama card from the hidden pearl company, rifle paper's happy mothers day card available from paperchase, mum i always look up to you card from ohh deer, happy mother's day card from noi publishing, shine above the rest mothers day card ferme a papier, happy mother's day card from paper salad,

#mothersday #motheringsunday #mum #greetings #paperlove #mothersdaycards #independentbusiness