Famille Summerbelle News

A cozy autumn afternoon in Amsterdam spent crafting with my son Lucien, painting squashes, making art, and turning a rainy Wednesday into a cherished memory.

Celebrating Spring with a New Paper Cut Bouquet & Fauna & Flora Collection As Spring arrives, it brings a fresh wave of inspiration for my work, and this season, I’m excited to share a special project in the making—a hand-cut bouquet that celebrates the beauty of nature. Drawing inspiration from Dutch still life flower paintings and the vibrant blooms I...

This classic Famille Summerbelle WATERFRONT HOUSES illustration has been reimagined for this festive season! Inspired by Julie’s everyday experience cycling along Amsterdam’s canals, looking a the beautiful and iconic Amsterdam canal houses whose facades are punctuated with windows...

Very Limited Edition of our iconic paper cut maps, these unique risograph prints in pop colours will brighten up your desk wall or your favourite room! I love risograph prints as they have a lovely grainy quality, each colour is added onto the paper layer by layer that makes each print totally unique. The following maps available are: La France,...

A few months ago, before we even had planned to move, I met up with Charlotte Burgoyne, the co-founder of My Little Travellers, a reference blog for traveling families. We met in one of my favourite café near our home in De Pijp. Charlotte is a well travelled French mum who happened to be visiting Amsterdam with her family so...

After 5 wonderful years spent in Amsterdam we will leave for new adventures in the neighbouring country, Germany! It is every time unplanned and fast moving but it seems like every 5 years we are going through big changes in our life! It is a bittersweet news as we are so happy as a family in the Netherlands but at...

The Siberian freezing wave is now over and the temperatures are rising fast. It was -5 degrees two days ago and 13 degrees today in Amsterdam! I have to say I liked it when it was freezing cold as we had the most beautiful blue sky and the sun shinning every day which is rate at the time of year...

Last Sunday we all woke up early and drove half an hour out of Amsterdam to Wassenaar to visit the newly built Voorlinden Museum. Upon our arrival kids were playing ice hockey on the frozen lake. It was a very cold yet beautiful sunny morning. Voorlinden Museum is a private museum of contemporary and modern art. The art collection is...

I am delighted to announce the launch of our latest map of Amsterdam! I had great pleasure drawing and cutting this map as I am so in love with this beautiful city that we now call home. I have featured my favourite spots like the Albert Cuyp market in the Pijp near where we live and where you can replace...

Wildernis in Amsterdam: Stunning embroidery by Sarah Benning: Delightful paintings by Elizabeth Barnett:

Our last removal box has been unpacked today. I guess we were close to 100 of them, far too many. Now we need to replace a place for everything but most importantly de-clutter as much as possible. Thing we didn't manage to do before we moved house! This is Téo sitting at the dining table in our new kitchen. We...

What a blissful day in Amsterdam. Not a single cloud!

Pink and yellow inspired by a painting of Willem de Kooning Rosy-Fingered Dawn at Louse Point, 1963 on display at the Stedelijk museum in Amsterdam. The touch of yellow reminded me of this photo featuring our Family Tree prints. It was photographed and styled by Emma Cassi.

...Ophelia and Lucien are off school so we decided to visit The Oasis of Matisse exhibition at the Stedelijk museum. It is only a short bike ride from our home, so they took their pencils and notebooks and off we went. It is the largest ever retrospective of work by Matisse to be shown in the Netherlands. The ground floor...

I am very happy to finally announce the launch the Friends Book, Vrienden Boek in Dutch. It’s been such a pleasure to collaborate on this book with my friend Esther from Babyccino Kids and the wonderful Snor publisher. We started to work on this project back in September so I can tell you it is really nice to finally hold...

I wanted to show you some images of my creative process for designing the paper cut map of Amsterdam, our current home town - we moved to this beautiful city more than a year ago! I am very excited to design this map of Amsterdam. This City has so much character. The architecture is stunning, the canals, the boats, the...

Yesterday. A beautiful day on the beach 30mn away from Amsterdam.

Dutch graphic designer Naomi den Besten from Pretty Unexpected has created this beautiful Creative Guide to Amsterdam packed with her favourite addresses: design book stores, concept stores, restaurants, art supplies shops and many more cool things to do in Amsterdam. Her creative guide is available here. A new excuse to go on my bike to explore this city!

This morning I met up with Thomas Gravemaker the man behind the creative Letterpress Amsterdam studio in the centre of town. It's a fascinating workspace full of charm, old machines and wooden draws filled with handset metal types. Thomas has an extensive knowledge and experience in letterpress and graphic design. He worked for many years in London and Paris where...

from our new home, Amsterdam...