Laura S Miles Designs

06/05/2023

Super excited that my House has found it's forever home, heading to an architects' office!

To celebrate, here's a throwback from first sketch to final piece - with a close up on those fiddly leaves - made nearly 5 years ago in situ at the beautiful estate ✏️🔪🌿🖼️

More pieces will be available via the brilliant in soon!

01/09/2022

Great to see my work on display as part of the Summer Exhibition today! In such great company as well including pieces by , , Zoe Lane and Kathryn of Felix Tabitha too 🙌
Now in its last couple of days.

12/05/2022

So exciting and surreal to see my papercuts, workshop plans and handprinted cards in a real-life shop today.

Thank you so much to as always for the opportunities, the belief and the chats!

01/05/2022

Cheers to another amazing !

Special thanks the brilliant for hosting us (the biscuits and the bubbles), my artist family , and Zoe Lane (for everything), new trail friends and the hundreds of visitors who've visited over the last two weekends (especially those who have rehomed some of my creations).

I won't be there for the final day tomorrow but I'll be thinking of everyone, plus I'm delighted that my work is set to join the amazing collection available at full time ❤️ - watch this space for more on that! - for now I'm exhausted but excited, and as always so grateful to the committee, the community and the treasure hunters which make this trail so amazing.

 

30/04/2022

Excited for another bee-sy weekend for , we'll be there 10 til 5pm at The Old Sorting office - a hive of arty inspiration 😉🐝

Image: Quilled bees in different stages, from just curls of paper to taking flight!

 

24/04/2022

Excited for our second day! 9 great artists, 1 beautiful venue, 10 til 5pm today!

Posted Busy first day for us all , looking forward to meeting lots more visitors tomorrow ☺️👍

30/03/2022

Sneak peek! Tonight's the night when all the artists gather to show their work. We'll be at Brookfield Hotel from 6pm to 9pm tonight, and so will one of my pieces - if you want to help choose which please head to my stories - hopefully see you there!

It’s an invitation to the hottest night in town… 😯

🌟The Sneak Preview…🌟
Tomorrow night! (Wednesday)
6pm-9pm
The Brookfield Hotel

A chance for a peak at the work of ALL our artists, pick up a trail guide and chat to the artists themselves.
🖼👩‍🎨🖼

🍷Cash bar

Are you coming?!

PS - If you park at the hotel don’t forget to log your vehicle registration number on arrival. 🚗

18/03/2022

The countdown is on and today I'm on the countdown 😊 visited our great new venue at Emsworth sorting office yesterday and spent this morning framing new pieces, can't wait!

🌟36 days to go...🌟

Laura’s work is all about celebrating the possibilities of paper. Her original hand-cut, hand-printed and quilled artworks range from showcasing beautiful local landscapes to featuring wordplay, dinosaurs and gin. Commissions taken – including wedding gifts, pet portraits and newborn announcements.

03/03/2022

My process for planning papercuts commissions is as simple as 1, 2, 3.

📸 1: Confirm the composition, this one was from the customer's own holiday images but sometimes it involves bringing more together or a bespoke design.

✏️ 2: Sketch it, backwards, on tracing paper (got to be able to check I have those pesky shadows right).

🔪 3: Then, scalpel in hand, I start small while the paper is still strong until the beautiful last cut - usually the outline or sky - and remembering how to breathe again.

Simple really.

Or if not simple, it certainly is mindful as the paper soon lets you know if your focus is wandering.

02/03/2022

I didn't marry my husband JUST because his surname made me Laura SMiles... but it is a bonus.

It also prompted me to focus on what makes me smile and, most importantly, gave me the nudge I needed to stop putting things off!

This little crafty world I have carved (from paper) for myself ever since is a combination of the two and, as the strapline states, is about 'bringing joy into the everyday'.

Brand values is today's prompt and while it is a whole host of things - celebrating the small and the local, a sense of fun and puns, it does all boil down to smiles. The joy of making, the joy of discovery and the joy of sharing... because some happiness everyday is surely as good for you as apples?

01/03/2022

Attempting to post everyday is one challenge, starting it with my face is a whole other level! But I'm a huge fan of the brilliant and admirer of the creative community which shines through so here goes...

I'm Laura and paper has been woven throughout my life - personally (reading), professionally (writing) and artistically (mostly printing, cutting, quilling and always playing).

This space is a combination of a hobby which has got out of hand and an ongoing promise to celebrate the joy and journey of making. I'm intentionally keeping it hobby-sized (but more on that tomorrow) and that suits me just fine. ⁠