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Inky Acorn Designs specialises in premium wedding stationery, greetings cards, prints & homewares

21/10/2024

Super excited to be selected to be stocked at the wonderful shop in for the next few months. (Spot my Amsterdam and British & Irish Isles maps are in the first pic!)

I did my stock drop off in person last week (👉 to the last pic to see Fearne and I doing the drop!) and got to have a little peek at the beautifully curated shop. They stock so many fab other indie businesses there - it's a bit like a condensed version of their monthly markets but in a permanent location!

It's also only a stone's throw from which was very exciting for my tummy that very much misses all the amazing cuisines we used to eat when we lived in Singapore and that rural Sussex doesn't quite provide 😂.

I have a range of my illustrated maps on sale at the shop and will be restocking periodically throughout the run up to Christmas. If you visit the shop and can't find the design of mine or size you were looking for, just drop me a message!

My stock will be there until 15th Jan 🥳

12/08/2024

🌿 A little update from me - we welcomed our gorgeous girly Fearne a few weeks ago, so things have been very hectic and sleep deprived here with a very energetic toddler and a very hungry baby!

I am monitoring my emails and DMs sporadically, but this little pickle has discovered the witching hour(s!!!) waaaayy earlier than Finn ever did, so the time I thought I might have a snoozy babe on me in the evenings has actually been spent walking all over my house with Fearne in a sling shhhshing until my mouth is dry 😂

Hope everyone is enjoying the sunshine at the moment and had a fab weekend! Big love to all the couples I've been working with this year who've had their weddings this summer - I hope you had the most magical weddings! Please do share your professional photos once you get them back - it's always lovely to see my work out in the wild!

Soph xx

09/07/2024

Each guest received a personalised menu with their name printed on a little marker for this beautiful Loch Lomond wedding at 's pavillion last summer.
Swipe 👉 to see the rest of the totally bespoke suite I created for the lovely couple in a colour palette designed to match their flowers (see photo 4!)

04/01/2024

A bit late to the party (where on earth have the last 2 weeks gone!) but I hope all my wonderful customers & clients, the shops I wholesale to, the wedding venues who recommend me, the lovely traders I've had the pleasure of working next to at various markets this year... AND everyone in between... had an absolutely fabulous Christmas/NY break and a little bit of a rest (for those that weren't working)!

2023 was my best year yet running and I'm so grateful to have worked on so many bespoke wedding stationery projects and illustrated maps this year - thank you so much to those who put their trust in me and for those who recommended me to friends and family! ❤️ The word of mouth recommendations mean so much as it shows me how much you loved what I created for you! I will at some point get round to collating a reel of some of the awesome wedding stationery projects I've worked on... though if I'm totally honest with myself, it probably won't be for a little while as my phone's gallery is chaos 🙈.

I've also done more markets than ever in 2023 and it's been haaard work (physically lugging stock and display bits and bobs around with my dodgy back!) but so rewarding and I've loved getting to chat with so many of you about my work and meet lots of fellow traders. Markets have really helped me to feel part of a community, not just a solo illustrator who works in a windowless studio 😂. Particularly as I'm a bit s**t and sporadic at social media, so don't have a huge level of engagement on here. I'm hoping to do lots more markets in London, Sussex and Kent this year.

I'm a little booked up for map & stationery commissions for the next couple of months but drop me a message if you are interested in a commission and I'll see when I can squeeze you in.

Nursery is still closed for the Christmas break, so I'm feeling very frazzled this week trying to catch up on everything between juggling a little person with some very big feelings (and opinions!), so please bear with me if I've been a bit slow!

Hoping to be back to normal on Monday!

Soph x

02/12/2023

Christmas market season is in full swing 🎄
I'm back at in today until the Xmas light switch on at 6 and then my last two markets of the season are next weekend:

Saturday 9th | 9:30-12:30 | King John's Nursery Farmers Market

Sunday 10th | 12-5 | Solo Craft Fair, London Southbank (by Waterloo)

Hopefully see some of you there 🥳

28/11/2023

NYC 🍎🇺🇸 this has been my bestseller this autumn and I've just realised I've never shared it on here...whoops!

seems to be such a special place for so many people and I've loved chatting to all my customers at various markets about their time spent there and why they can't wait to pop this map up on their wall! ❤️

So many of these maps have made their way over to customers living in already, but I've now stopped shipping internationally until Jan as Christmas postal chaos was too stressful last year and I don't want anyone to be disappointed about receiving their prints on time!

13/11/2023

All my Christmas market dates for the next few weeks. Busy busy! I'll have lots of £10 and under stocking fillers (A5 prints, ceramic coasters, Christmas decorations) with me as well as all my illustrated maps in A5-A3 size.

Locations:
LONDON - located at
TICEHURST - at The Stand in front of
WADHURST - at the late night shopping evening inside the Commemoration Hall
ETCHINGHAM -

Whitstable folk - I'm so sorry I didn't manage to make any dates work for this winter, but I'll try to get some dates booked in for the spring!

06/11/2023

🎉🎉Big news!🎉🎉 (and also a little late sharing it on here as it started last week 😂🙈)
I've never done a promo before...but last year I had to close for most online orders at the start of December due to the postal chaos...so as a cheeky reward for placing your Christmas orders early...here's a little something from me 😘

Available on my Etsy shop or any orders placed by DM or email

My illustrated map of the
area has been super popular over the last few weeks. So here it is in case you haven't seen it before! I'd love to do more ski resort maps but this one took forever to do as I tried to get the runs and lifts in all the right places, so I fear I might not find the time to make another for quite some time!

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02/10/2023

Thought I'd try to share a bit more of the wedding stationery I've worked on this year as I feel like I'm knee deep in weddings at the moment and maps have taken a bit of a back seat (though Paris WILL be done ready for Christmas ordering 🤞).

Autumn is always my busiest season for wedding stationery with lots of couples with summer weddings starting to think about getting their invitations out.

Here's a lovely little salmon red and white menu with some tasty sounding dishes on 😋

26/06/2023

Had a lovely day at 's yesterday showcasing a selection of my previous wedding stationery commissions. Thank you to their Wedding & Events Manager Becky for organising.

It was wonderful to see how many couples came along (despite it being an absolutely steaming day - luckily The Bell has Aircon!) and it was great to have brainstorming chats with lots of those couples about the different kinds of unique illustrations and stationery I can create for their big day.

Big hats of to all the other fab suppliers in attendance too - I had such a good time chatting with you all. Looking forward to grabbing a few cuppas with those based in Ticehurst soon!

05/02/2023

Illustrated of and the ski area. Lots of lovely little details in this one - I've included all the different , colour of runs and mountain restaurant locations as well as lots of the peaks and ski towns around the map.

Ski maps can be a bit tricky to illustrate due to the positioning of the resorts along mountain chains. This often means that all the detail needs to be clustered in one long narrow line in the centre of the paper with not a huge amount of details above and below, but not in the case of this resort! I've never visited but it looks like a dreamy resort and was an absolute treat to work on.

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03/12/2022

Showcasing another custom invitation suite I worked on last year with a fab couple. The couple really wanted to highlight all the lovely countryside that their venue was close to, so I added in lots of hills, green fields & hedging to the illustration.

*names and personal info changed for privacy purposes*

28/11/2022

TENBY 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝 (had to be done!)
So excited to launch this map. I promised one of my best friend's I'd have it ready last Christmas, but I think I was a little naive about how much work trying to keep up with wedding stationery commissions and having a newborn baby at the same time would be! Anywho, here it is, a year late, but filled with and featuring iconic landmarks like Tenby Lifeboats RNLI, , , &

Hope you like it!

24/11/2022

See you Saturday Whitstable Harbour Market!
I'll be there 10-4 this Saturday & Sunday (26th & 27th Nov) with all my new maps, coasters, prints & greetings cards.

Hopefully the weather will be kind. It's going to feel a bit different to my pop-up shop dates in the summer when I was in jeans and a t-shirt!

22/11/2022

Birthday drip cake 😋 Sometimes simple is best.

So funny that this little doodle I did one Sunday afternoon has turned out to be my bestselling card. Thanks to & (and probably the pandemic for encouraging people to shop small where they can), this little number has sold over 2200+ units 🥇🎉

On a totally non-business related note, a BIG happy birthday today to one of my besties and anyone else who's birthday is today!

Available in A6 sized greetings cards with 100% recycled kraft envelope from my Etsy shop, or from Thortful via the link in my bio.

16/11/2022

Can you guess which street in Singapore this beautiful mosque is located on? 👉 to see the full view as a signed art print.

13/11/2022

One of the best things about printing in-house at my studio...personalisation!
So excited that this is an area I can now branch into as I'm no longer restricted by high print minimums per design at the printers.

So many ideas, but for now, some colourful, modern bridal party proposal cards!

of honour

09/11/2022

LONDON MAP
So excited to say that my London map is finally ready and just in time for Christmas gifting! It's been a long one in the making as I chose to include quite a large area (mainly because I assume only millionaires live in zone 1 and I think it's always nice to have maps up on the wall that include the area you live in).

Hope that you like it! I'd love to add in a few more landmarks around the map that are less central/zone 1 focussed in future editions (likely not going to be until next year if I'm honest!). Which landmarks would you like to see included?

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**ROYAL MAIL LAST POSTING DATES** #RoyalMail have brought forward their #Christmas last posting dates to super early in December, which I think gives a real indication of how severe the delays in the postal network currently are. Last posting dates are 12th Dec for 2nd class and 16th Dec for 1st class. HOWEVER, I, like many other small businesses, can't guarantee these dates as once we've handed your order over to Royal Mail, it's down to them, so if you can, please try and order early this year! Side note: I'm investigating more reliable express shipping options (though all the major carriers seem to be experiencing big delays!) and will be updating my #Etsyshop with a premium shipping option this week. #etsyuk #royalmailstrikes #lastpost

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