I wanted to design some cards or postcards that I could send to friends to say thank you, or even to just say “hello, how are you?”. I drew inspiration from family photographs of small children. Many of my friends now have small children, so I hoped that they might relate to the designs and that the imagery might therefore appeal to them. And I hoped that other friends might relate the nostalgic images to their own memories of childhood. Although I very much admire more traditional illustrations like those created by the artists behind Belle & Boo, I wanted to give these designs a more contemporary twist and make them my own. I started off by captioning the designs with phrases like “Thank You” or “Thinking of You”, but soon found that this restricted the functionality of the cards far too much. Various song lyrics and sayings sprang to mind as positive, upbeat phrases which might work whatever I wrote on the card and so the words joined with the images and I came up with four designs.