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20 February 2017

Wedding Stationary Design & Accessories

This is the wedding stationary I designed and made for my wedding. I used vintage etchings, botanical illustrations and disco balls for the imagery. I made a freshwater pearl, glass flower bead and cut glass and mother of pearl brow chain for the wedding day, pearl and glass bead hair clips for the 7 brides maids…

16 February 2017

Freelance Designer London

Glitter Necklace by Polly Playford Design This is a necklace I designed, made and photographed. I photographed it on a mirror I had etched with acid to give it a mottled effect for an interior design project I was working on. The crystals in blue and pink come from one of those crystal trees you…

1 February 2017

Bespoke wallpaper design

Bespoke wallpaper design So I created this design from some ink textures I painted on watercolour paper for another branding project. I also used some old botanical prints of hydrangeas and leaves and scanned in graph paper for some detail. There’s also a bird wing with a photo of feather textures inside it. I used the…

1 February 2017

50 Design Tips eBook

50 Design Tips eBook Route Print asked me to send them some design tips for their e-book. As always I’m happy to say what I think. Read the e-book here. These are my top tips: 24. Always Be On The Lookout For Interesting Textures & Imagery. A good brick wall or some recycled paper, photograph…

18 January 2017

Wedding decoration, table & stationary design

Wedding decoration, table & stationary design This is where I sell my design work I created for our wedding. Chris and I got married last summer on Osea Island. Being a designer, I wanted to have creative input on as much of the event as I could. This entailed making; wedding dress design, wedding accesorries,…

16 January 2017

Art for Interior design

Art for Interior design I’ve been straying off the computer and creating large abstract textured art work designed specifically for interior spaces I have been desinging. It’s been very enjoyable and has led to various jobs for event design, including my paper sculptures in the Saatchi Gallery for the Salon QP exhibition. The navy cock…

10 January 2017

Festival Clothing & Accessories Collection

My Festival Clothing & Accessories Collection Get thinking about summer now, it helps pass the grey days! Theses are just a few of the clothes and accessories I have designed and made. They’re perfect for parties and festivals. I’m hoping to sell them at Secret Emporium at festivals this summer. Get in contact if you’d…

10 January 2017

Festival Number 6 Headdress Workshop

Festival Number 6 Headdress Workshop. My headdress workshops are really taking off now… the latest workshop was at Festival Number 6  in August. Each day we had over 50 people come to the town hall at Port Merion, where this festival is held, to make flower festival headdresses as a part of the many activities put…

6 January 2017

christmas card design paper cut out angel snowflake sequins

  Merry Christmas Everyone! christmas card design paper cut out angel snowflake sequins  I created this paper cut out with plain card and some shinny plastic snowflake sequins and then photographed it. This was one of the designs for a client, Bragard UK, that didn’t get used so I turned into a card for all…