Paperpaintpixels

Paperpaintpixels Heirloom-quality illustrated alphabet prints, nursery art & educational posters. Hello, I’m Carolyn — illustrator, mum, and founder of PaperPaintPixels.

Sustainable, personalised, and made in Somerset — designed for curious kids to grow with your child and fit beautifully into family homes. From my Somerset studio, I create illustrated prints that help children look closer, ask questions, and discover more. Made to order on sustainable paper, each print is designed to last and made just for you to grow with your family.

A little card for a brand new tiny human 🦒🐘Personalised for baby Finn and packed with a whole safari welcome committee —...
17/06/2026

A little card for a brand new tiny human 🦒🐘
Personalised for baby Finn and packed with a whole safari welcome committee — giraffe, elephant, zebra, lion and all.

I love making these new baby cards because somehow adding a baby’s name makes them feel instantly more special. Also, any excuse to draw a tiny elephant holding a banner.

Personalised new baby cards are now in the shop — perfect for baby showers, new arrivals and those “oh help, I need a lovely card quickly” moments.

A little new studio detail ✨Every print now leaves the studio with its own Certificate of Authenticity — hand-signed, da...
12/06/2026

A little new studio detail ✨

Every print now leaves the studio with its own Certificate of Authenticity — hand-signed, dated, and tucked in with the print.

It’s a small thing, but after ten years of drawing and sending prints out into the world, it feels like a nice way to mark where each one has come from.

Drawn by hand in Somerset, printed on beautiful 100% cotton rag paper, and made with care from start to finish.

Every beetle, bear, balloon and tiny boat included.

Work in progress on the studio iPad this week.These are two of the Somerset butterflies I've been drawing for a new The...
10/06/2026

Work in progress on the studio iPad this week.
These are two of the Somerset butterflies I've been drawing for a new

The top one is a comma, that wonderfully ragged wing edge is actually what it's supposed to look like. The lower one is a speckled wood, a butterfly I've probably walked past a hundred times without really looking at properly. The bottom one is soon to be a silver y moth.

More to come on this one. 🦋

A to Z, but make it underwater.Angel fish to zebra shark, with a vampire squid and xestospongia somewhere in the middle....
08/06/2026

A to Z, but make it underwater.

Angel fish to zebra shark, with a vampire squid and xestospongia somewhere in the middle. The ocean is probably stranger than any of us fully appreciate, and I find that rather comforting somehow.
Ocean Life Alphabet Print, printed to order on archival fine art paper in Somerset. 🌊

Friday fun. Can you guess the letter?I've always thought I is a slightly underrated initial. It comes with an igloo, an ...
05/06/2026

Friday fun. Can you guess the letter?

I've always thought I is a slightly underrated initial. It comes with an igloo, an ice-cream, an ibis, a little imp causing mischief, and an Indian elephant dressed for a celebration. Not a bad crowd to grow up with.
Swipe to the end to see the full print. Personalised with any I name, printed to order in Somerset on archival fine art paper.

Somewhere between “quick sketch” and “finished print” there is usually a phase where I become quietly obsessed with the ...
27/05/2026

Somewhere between “quick sketch” and “finished print” there is usually a phase where I become quietly obsessed with the subject.

In this case: weevils.

Early coloured pencil sketches/felt for the insect alphabet.











A seahorse in Italian is il cavalluccio marino. The small horse of the sea.I only found that out a couple of years ago a...
24/05/2026

A seahorse in Italian is il cavalluccio marino. The small horse of the sea.
I only found that out a couple of years ago and I think about it more than is probably reasonable.

There is something about a word in another language that makes you see the thing differently.

A seahorse is a seahorse until you know it is also, somewhere else, a tiny horse doing its best in the huge ocean.

I made a bilingual English and Italian alphabet a while ago as I am slightly obsessed with how different languages describe things.

Available as download on My website and Etsy.

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Something hit my window late one May evening and I had to stop and look.It was a cockchafer beetle. Enormous, brown, com...
19/05/2026

Something hit my window late one May evening and I had to stop and look.

It was a cockchafer beetle. Enormous, brown, completely unbothered by me. I stood there for quite a long time working out what it was.

Then I had to draw it, and somehow that turned into making an entire insect alphabet.

That sort of thing happens to me quite regularly.

Last week I fell down an internet rabbit hole reading about an Italian educator called Loris Malaguzzi after seeing the Princess of Wales visit Reggio Emilia. I should probably have been working.

His idea was that children arrive in the world already full of ways of knowing. Drawing is one. Making things is one. Quietly crouching on a path to study a beetle is one.

He called them the hundred languages of children.

I am very much not an educator. But reading that, I had the odd feeling that I’d accidentally been working from the same instinct for years without knowing it had a name.

I wrote more about it in this week’s journal blog post if you'd like to read it.

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A gentle way to explore the alphabetthrough animals, colour and curiosity 🌿Designed to feel calm, thoughtfuland right at...
09/04/2026

A gentle way to explore the alphabet
through animals, colour and curiosity 🌿

Designed to feel calm, thoughtful
and right at home in your space ✨

Available on Etsy & my website ✨

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