Oops, I did it again…

…I started a project that I just could not put down.  On Sunday I started working on a new design to print using gocco (after getting very carried away printing cards last week), and I fully intended to work on it over the course of this week, with the aim being to finish it by Sunday.

Well… here’s how my Monday morning went…

I was very hunch-backed by the time I’d finished inking in the last of the design and probably should have called it a day at that point, but I couldn’t help myself and I was dying to see how it would come out on the gocco…

…as you can see, the master screen burned very nicely!  Then, of course, I just had to try printing some cards… and then, once I had the ink on the screen, it made sense to keep printing until I ran out of cards…

I can’t say I’m sorry that I kept on pegging away at this, because I’m incredibly pleased with the results.  The design has come out exactly as I pictured it in my head, and I think it works nicely on the cards.  I think it might also work well as a design for wrapping paper, but that will be a project for another day.

These cards are now available in my Etsy shop, click here to view them.

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Ready, set… gocco!

You might remember that, a couple of weeks ago, I attended a print gocco workshop run by Xtina Lamb.  I really enjoyed the workshop and fell completely in love with print gocco.  Since then I’ve been thinking of designs (and buying up as many supplies as I can afford), and this week my plotting bore fruit and I now have a small range of cards available in my Etsy shop.

At the moment I have three designs: a birthday card , an illustration of a dandelion clock (entitled ‘Make a Wish’ ), and a playful illustration of a pup.  Three very different styles, but I’ve been bubbling with ideas and couldn’t settle on just one style just now so I did a bit of everything!  I’m planning to add more designs to the range but will probably wait another month or so before doing that (need to sell the cards I’ve already made first!).

Are there any designs you’d like to see?

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Hello…

No Wednesday Wishlist today as it would have been dreadfully dull (still wishing for better teeth…), but I have been preparing some new things ready for Kensal Flea this Saturday.

Sets of blank notecards, with a hand-stamped design on the front.  These come to you courtesy of the killer toothache which kept me at home from work on Monday.  If you’d like a set then pop along to Kensal Flea on Saturday where you can purchase them, or receive a set as a free gift when you spend over £15.

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Alex Clark Art

On Thursday I received a surprise in the post.  A friend had written me a lovely long letter (I do love getting letters and take especial pleasure in curling up with a cuppa to read them), and had also sent me a present.

What’s in the wallet?  Well, have a peek…

The most beautiful notecards!  They’re gorgeous, well drawn and with lots of humour to boot.  Apparently she saw them and thought of me   I think they’re fabulous, and my first thought was that I couldn’t possibly use them, I just wanted to stick them up in my studio!  However, I had a look at the artist’s website, and it turns out she sells prints as well as notecards so I can use these with impunity and then treat myself to a print (or two, or three…) in due course.  If you’ve got a spare five minutes do pop along to Alex Clark’s website and take a look at her work.

Thank you Jayne, you really made my day

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In case of emergency…

What’s in this gorgeous red tin then?  A selection of clever and beautiful cards by Jennifer Bishop of Architette Studios.

I stumbled across her work last year and fell in love with it, and my first crush was on her city skyline series.

Beautiful, detailed and elegant – what more could you want?

Jennifer also has a sense of humour, and I was also taken with her Sheeptails stuff.

Again, simple but elegant, and they bring a smile to your face.

I think my favourites are her Construction Cards.

There’s a huge range to choose from, and I selected my ten favourite ones to go in the tin.  The red tins are now sold out, but she’s got silver ones available for purchase.  The Emergency Correspondance Kit comes with a selection of cards for all occasions (birthdays, weddings, new babies…) as standard, but you can choose your own selection instead if you wish.

Beautiful work by a very talented artist, I highly recommend you go and take a look!

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Take an old A-Z (part 2…)

Last week I made a start on making some stationery from an old A-Z.  I’ve since made a few more bits to go with the previous items.

A set of six postcard-style notecards

A set of six regular notecards

and a set of six postcards.

The previous set of notecards had matching envelopes, also hand crafted from A-Z pages.  This proved very time-consuming though, so I dug out some regular cream coloured envelopes from my stash to use with these.

These will be added to my Etsy shop today.

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Take an old A-Z…

… and some old folders that have been handed down, and what can you make with them?

Parcel tags…

Coin envelopes…

And a little folio filled with notecards and envelopes…

I don’t usually go in for making stationery, but as I’m still trying not to make any more notebooks for the time being I had a bit of spare time on my hands!  I enjoyed pottering about today, so I daresay I’ll make some more bits and pieces over the weekend.  My favourite things from today were the little coin envelopes, so before I finished up for the day I made a few more out of pages from an old Reader’s Digest gardening book.

These are very sweet and I think they’d be nice for storing seeds in.

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