Half-lined & Half-blank Writing & Colouring Books for Kids

Hi everyone! Today I’d like to share my ‘Half-lined & Half-blank Writing & Colouring Books for Kids’*, as they are what I originally wanted to create for my youngest son, so that he can write lots of stories, and add pictures of his own, or stick photos he’s taken, or items he’s collected on days out.

When I was a child I really enjoyed sharing interesting activities I had done during school holidays, or after a weekend off. I loved that I could write and draw on the same page, especially as drawing was (and still is) my favourite thing to do, and loved being allowed to be creative for a while!

I made this collection of books with fun covers that would be attractive for my son, and other kids, and to add a little colour to their creativity, instead of using a plain school exercise book. They have 50 sheets/100 sides, and have 2 cm (wide) line-spacing, and are perfect for drawing, sketching, colouring and writing.

Here are the four Half-lined/Half-blank books I’ve created so far - Rainbow Sparkle ‘My Stories’, Green Budgie, Bunny and Pumpkins (these images show my ‘proof’ copies, and won’t have the red/dotted borders on the actual books):

First four Half-lined/Half-blank Writing & Colouring Books for Kids

Have a great day, Jane.

Links to all the books:

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New Notebooks, now available on Amazon!

Hi everyone, I’ve been creating lots of new Notebooks, which are now available to view and purchase on Amazon*, in the UK and USA!

I currently have a variety of different cover designs, which have a selection of inserts, including: lined pages, half-blank/half-lined books for young story writers, and drawing books with a faint dotted border around each page. (I’ve added images of the inside pages below, so you can see what they look like!)

They all:

• measure 8.5” x 11” (21.6 cm x 27.9 cm),
• have 50 sheets (100 sides),
• have a soft matte cover

I’ve already made my first sale of this ‘Sunset’ lined notebook* (yay!); the image below shows the whole back/front cover design with my Groovy Pumpkin Designs logo on the back.

Here are a few of my Cosmic-style Notebook covers, just tap on the images to visit their listings on Amazon*!

‘Robin’ lined notebook

‘Seahorse’ lined notebook

‘Raven’ lined notebook

‘Sea Turtle’ lined notebook

Here are what the inside pages look like:

Drawing pages

Half-blank/half-lined pages

Fully-lined pages

For more books, visit my Author Page, where I am awaiting publication of another 11 new books in the next few days!

Let me know if you have any suggestions for different designs, such as food diary, planner, exercise log, or anything else you’d find useful.

Bye for now, Jane.

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The Return of Groovy Pumpkin Designs - The New Blog

Hey guys!! I've had a longer-than-expected break from Groovy Pumpkin Designs to try my hand at new ventures, and have enjoyed learning how to create digital art using Procreate for the iPad.

I have painted many beautiful animal portraits, such as Captain Jack, the Macaw; a stained glass-effect Tiger; and Rewan, a pop art-style chocolate Labrador dog. You can see LOTS more animal portraits I've hand-painted, including cats, guinea pig, dogs, and birds at Sirius Pawtraits!

Captain Jack

I've also made several people portraits, such as David Bowie, Tom Hiddleston as Loki, Freddie Mercury, Billy Connolly, and Kurt Cobain.

Kurt Cobain

In the next couple of weeks I plan on launching a Kickstarter campaign to enable me to create new enamel pins, but they're a huge financial outlay to get them made, as normally metal companies prefer a bulk order of 100 pins; so to get around this I'll be taking 'pre-orders' and when I get enough funds from my backers I will have the pins produced and sent out.

I've started designing some pins, and this collection will be on the theme of POTIONS - the first one being a LOVE POTION! 💖

I've created this rainbow colour-scheme that I plan on using, but it may change as I come up with more ideas.

New Colour Palette

Let me know if you have any enamel pins that you adore, and why, and also if there's anything you'd really love to own!!

I thought I'd share this Om Symbol necklace as my #ThrowbackThursday post on social media, and thought you'd like to see it here too. It's still available if you wish to purchase it, just send me an email and I'll get back to you within 24-hours! It was £15, now £12,  including free UK p&p. International buyers to enquire p&p cost for your country so I can add it to the price.

Om Symbol

Speak again soon,

Jane @ Groovy Pumpkin Designs 🧡