{ Sneaky Peek Thursday } Top secret project "A"
I don't want to give too much away about this super, top secret papercut, so the photo shows the design back to front and the wrong way up!
I've done a design similar to this as a commission but this one will be available as a screen print, and possibly making some other items super special and pretty!
I'm hoping to have the prints ready to launch at
on the 29th/30th June so watch this space!
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{ Sneaky Peek Thursday } My home
Inspired by the fabulous Cupcakes for Clara and her
posts.
A sketch, photo, or work in progress. A little glimpse into the way we work or what we're working on. Keeping creative and sharing the goodness.
This week I thought I'd share some photos of a new screen print, My home, that I've been working on.
The design starts life as a papercut. As always hand drawn and then cut by my own fair hand.....and my scalpel! I then use the papercut image to expose a screen. This means that the image fixed on the screen is an exact copy of the papercut design.
Here's a very rough test print to see how the colours look, dusty dark blue on a plaster background. I've recently started to produce two colour screen prints, with a solid block of background colour and then the design in another colour and I've been really pleased with the results!
And here's the finished article, available to buy
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{ Sneaky Peek Thursday } All Will Be Well
Inspired by the fabulous Cupcakes for Clara and her
posts.
A sketch, photo, or work in progress. A little glimpse into the way we work or what we're working on. Keeping creative and sharing the goodness.
A sneaky peek into my sketch book at the very beginings of a new design........I'll keep you posted on this one.....it could end up somewhere VERY exciting.......or not!
P.S. If you want to join in with the posts please do share your link in the comments so we can pop by and have a peek
Sneaky peek Thursday - LOVE papercut
I though I would share a slightly un-sneaky peek with you all! I've dug through my photos and flicked through my sketch book to share the story and scribbley sketches of the development of my LOVE papercut.
I have been mentally playing about, for a few months, with the idea of doing a paper cut with the infinity symbol and the word love and I'd done a couple of scribbles ages ago. But I felt they weren't really "me" and had left the idea looming in my sketch book.
While idly wasting time, ehhm I mean "researching" on Pinterest I can across a tattoo of the word love formed into an, almost, heart shape and whirr, whirr, click, click the wheels began turning again.
Would this make a better basis for the LOVE cut? Could I make it "me" enough?
I sometimes worry that my sketch book is like the inner working of my mind.....and when you look at this page there are at least four ideas I'm working on....at once!
Almost there, not completely convinced about the flowers and leaves on the bottom of the "heart" shape.........
A few more sketches later and BINGO! It's LOVE, it's "me"!
Here it is, all framed up!
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I've had such an UNBELIEVABLE resoponse to this wee papercut that I'm going to give all you wonderful, fabulous, followers, likeres, fans and friends a special Valentines treat! (exciting isn't it!)
Until and including 1st Feb, I'm going to give anyone in the UK FREE postage on this papercut, just enter the coupon code UKLOVE12 on my
.
Now I KNOW lots of you fantastic lot are based overseas and I don't want you to miss out on the treat.......but (there always is isn't there?!) to post the papercut framed overseas costs a small fortune sooo I will post it to ya FREE but unframed just enter the coupon code LOVE13 on my
to get a 20% discount.