If you’re on the hunt for bright, colourful, bold, fun, eco-friendly, retro-inspired, made in Lancashire cards, prints, calendars and stickers, you’ve come to the right place! Lancs Local members get 10% OFF ALL PURCHASES via my online Etsy store, and there’s FREE FIRST CLASS POSTAGE to all UK addresses too!

Hello, I’m Karen, a self-taught digital illustrator specialising in colourful and cheerful creations, produced as ethically as possible, and created to brighten up your life and home and make you smile. I started my little indie business, Comfy Marmalade, in 2018 and run it from our home in the beautiful Rossendale Valley in East Lancashire. I usually work around the kids on a battered old laptop in CMHQ (aka the spare room) or at our living room table overlooking the rolling Lancashire hillside, dog snoring on the sofa and coffee limited to three a day, if I can manage it…

I sell my products online via my Etsy store and also occasionally at local craft and art fairs. Product quality and customer care are both incredibly important to me, as is trying to make my business as environmentally friendly as possible. I make a donation to The Woodland Trust at the end of each financial year as a way of offsetting any eco impact Comfy Marmalade has had, and my products and packaging are as recycled, recyclable and biodegradable as possible. And why the name Comfy Marmalade? ‘Marmalade’ because I adore the colour orange, I love marmalade and I have red hair, and ‘Comfy’ because it’s a good Lancashire word that gets banded around a lot in our house. And it seemed to go well with Marmalade somehow… and no, I don’t make jams and jellies. Lovely to meet you!

Karen xx