Famille Summerbelle News

This is a belated announcement on the blog (sorry my dear blog followers!), we had a new addition to our family at the beginning of March: a little baby boy named Téo! We are so happy and excited to finally meet him, especially Ophelia and Lucien who were very eager to see him after this long 9 months wait... Téo...

The children are in the French Alps with their grandparents while I'm patiently waiting for baby number 3 to arrive next week...maybe! Have a nice weekend!

Agenda planner and Colour block pens by Poketo. House shape block book end by Present & Correct. Colour block planner by Poketo. Geometric sets of cards by Present & Correct.

Introducing our new Love Bugs paper cuts, just in time for you to share with your Valentine! It celebrates the beautiful flora and fauna of Europe in wonderful detail and is delivered within a beautiful heart shape. Available in two colour options: Bright Pink Deep Blue Size : 45 x 45cm £43.00

Beautiful plants studies and large scale paintings by American artist Jonas Wood. I wish we could see more buildings painted like this one on the David Kordansky Gallery in LA: Shelf Still Life, next to the High Line at 18th Street and 10th Avenue, NYC 2014.

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...

Triangles and more triangles from my Pinterest Patterns board. From top left: Mike Perry. Pattern found on Artssake Fabric from the Geffrye Museum. Leak Duncan. Top left: Marisa Hopkins. Bottom Left: Hannah Waldron. Marimekko.

I love the excitement we all have every year when the time comes of choosing and buying the Christmas tree; bringing it home and getting the boxes from the basement with all the Christmas decorations nicely folded in tissue paper from the previous year! This is what we did this weekend. It was so cold outside (below zero) here in...

Imagine yourself cycling down the side of a canal on a crisp, sunny day, with the reflections of the picturesque architecture of the houses mirrored in the water. That image is the inspiration for our latest paper cut House Reflections. This is a laser cut created from an intricate original paper cut that i've designed and it's available on Famille...

We celebrated our boy 5th birthday over the weekend with his friends and a home made chocolate pirate ship! Like every year, I take a picture of Lucien with his age written on top. I can't believe how much he has changed in 5 years. He looks like a real grown up boy now (with a cheeky smile)!

I cannot tell you how happy Ophelia was when she received the new book written by our friend Al MacCuish The Bee Who Spoke. It is her sitting in the middle reading the story to her friends. When we lived in Paris, Al came to visit us with his family and mentioned to us later that Ophelia inspired him to...

Yesterday I received a copy of the Dutch magazine Flow on my desk. It was such a nice surprise. Do you know Flow? I only discovered it since we moved to Amsterdam. It's a creative magazine with beautiful illustrations, articles about designers and other creative people. It is also full of little paper products to tear and to keep such...

8 years old today! 8 wonderful years with you ma chérie. I am so grateful to have you in my life xxxxxxxx

...on Instragram... It was a rainy day so we stayed home with the children doing what we love: painting, baking a chocolate cake, watching Madagascar 2 and packing our bags to go on holidays to France. On saturday night diner at the beautiful and delicious De Kas restaurant in Amsterdam to celebrate my aunt 70th birthday with all my family...

We're really excited to have our map of France feature on Bloesem blog today. What a great start of the day! We're offering 30% off all our products on Famille Summerbelle website during our Summer sale.

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

I am delighted to finally show you the article in this month issue of Spur Magazine featuring our home in Amsterdam and other homes of illustrators living in other european cities: Hanna Konola and Teresa Moorhouse in Helsinki, Isabelle Boinot in Paris, Tina Berning in Berlin. It has been a pleasure to meet the photographer Fumie Tsuji (who's also the...

I wanted to share with you some inspiring photos I took while I was in London last week. I was there to work in the Famille Summerbelle studio in Finsbury park. On Saturday I met with my younger sister Emeline (we call her Milou!) who lives in Shoreditch for a nice breaksfast at Albion. She took me in all the...