Sneak Peek - Shop Update

I have been very busy over the last few days designing, carving and printing new greeting cards. This is the new "Congratulations" card in pink and blue to welcome new babies into the world! I will be printing these in more colours so they will be appropriate for any 'congrats' type situations but for now just pink and blue.

The letters are hand stamped because the letters I carefully carved into the design read back to front when printed (I overlooked the first lesson in lino printing, which is anything you carve in will print as a mirror image). I think it looks better now than it would have though, so happy mistake!

New hand printed card

A new card design added to the shop.

Shop Update! New Cards

A new card design hand printed with a block I carved last week! These are now available in the shop, I hope you like them.

Card Set - Red Heart Block Print

Hand printed with my own linocut design. Now available in the shop. I have a new greeting card design that I am printing today and will show you tomorrow!

Shop update

It's been raining pretty relentlessly here so I spent the day block printing and adding new cards to the shop.

Postcard: Taj Mahal, India

This postcard is an original artwork, hand painted, depicting the Taj Mahal, India. The text 'Taj Mahal, India' is handwritten in black ink. The back of the postcard is professionally printed with a postcard template, ready for you to write your message. Just added to the shop!

DIY Project: Easy and cheap Valentines Day card. Make your own!

 Every year I make Harley a card for Valentine's Day. This year I thought I would share as it is such a quick, simple and cheap idea you can do too!
Materials:

• Blank card (I made my own from 220gsm art paper) It looks really nice on matte, slightly textured card.
• Envelope
• 2 x Regular eraser
• Lino carving tool, or if you don't have this, a sharp stanley/craft knife
• Pencil (make sure it is a light one that can be easily erased)
• Stamp ink pads

To make:

1. Using your craft knife, cut the erasers in half. On each half, draw the outline of a simple heart shape. Make each a different size.
2. With your lino carving tool, or craft knife (be careful, as it is a bit awkward) cut around the outside of the heart shapes, creating four heart stamps.
3. On your card, lightly draw the outline of a heart shape. Make it light enough so that you can easily erase it later.
4. Fill the heart shape with stamps! Try to distribute the different sizes evenly so the heart looks balanced.
5. Erase the pencil heart outline.
6. I added the word "LOVE" in the lower right corner of the heart, but this is up to you.

And you're done! It's super easy and costs virtually nothing. This card would also look nice framed after Valentine's Day. An original and sentimental artwork made by you!