I was running a little late making Christmas presents this year. On the 23rd December I was busy screen printing bags as extra Christmas presents for lots of family members. I went with a two-colour hydrangea design on grey bags. I did the screen printing in our shed and hung […]
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Although my Christmas cards this year are handmade I didn’t make each one individually by hand in the same way I have in previous years, instead I created the design in Illustrator and printed them from the PC. To give them a more hand-crafted feel I decided to create a stamp
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Yesterday I attended a willow weaving course at Winterbourne, an Edwardian house museum in Birmingham. The course was led by Jonathan Ridgeon whose website features an article with instructions to make a basket very similar to the one I made, which is pictured here. To achieve the two-tone effect we used a combination of
I’ve been developing a number of designs for shrink-plastic badges recently. Pictured are a number of leaf badges I created this weekend. The designs were printed on inkjet-friendly shrink plastic and then embossed to achieve a glossy effect and ensure the badges were waterproof. The leaves these are based on
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A couple of years ago I made Phil a Doraemon plush for Christmas. I made him without a pattern so he ended up slightly skewith and very handmade looking!
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Last weekend I completed six designs for Christmas cards. These will be printed on the cards I send to my family and friends this year. Each design is based on an actual ice crystal (more commonly known as snowflakes) photographed by W. A. Bentley in the early 1900s. Bentley was
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I’ve been playing around with shrink plastic over the last couple of weeks while working on a few designs for badges and magnets. Two of my initial designs are printed below. These were printed using Shrinky Dink Inkjet, after an initial unsuccessful attempt using the (not inkjet friendly) Shrinkles paper available in the
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A couple of months ago, my team at work had an away-day at Jinney Ring craft centre in Hanbury. It’s a lovely little place with duck ponds in the garden and artisan workshops. We were there for a pottery workshop. It was a mixture of hand building ceramic tiles and
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This is my second film star lino cut print in a couple of weeks. This time the subject is Ruan Lingyu, 阮玲玉. Ruan was a big star of the Shanghai film industry in the 1930s. She has become an idol partly due to her suicide at the age of 24,
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