Every year, the lovely Car hosts an Advent blog-every-day challenge, and I’ve decided this year to give it a crack. While I’m not convinced I will manage EVERY day, I do hope to blog at least three times a week, and anything more is a bonus. It’s my personal penance for dropping the ball. So. Here we are. Day one. […]
A couple of weeks back, my lovely friend Kylie sent me a message, wanting to chat about my stationery shop and some options for gift packs, as a prize for a trivia night she was helping host. We back-and-forth-ed a bit, and in the end, we decided to pull together this sweet custom Stationery Starter Set: In a little […]
It has been one of those weeks. I’m merrily plodding away on cutting the rest of my Aviatrix quilt, ready to sew tomorrow. I have yet another dressup day for Bear that I need to sew for as well. In around all that, and the usual juggling that is life as a mum of four, Boy2 has ended up […]
Ever since I started letterpressing, I’ve dreamed of making my own plates. With the Beetle’s birthday as good an excuse as any, I finally got myself organised, and designed some hand-drawn elements I would use regularly in cards and Project Life, and digitised them in Illustrator. I also thought some letterpress notecards would be a bit of fun for sending […]
A few bits and pieces happening around here this week, my big WIP I’m focusing on at the minute is some getting some fun stuff ready for the Etsy shop. Just a few little loose ends to tidy up, and these babies will be ready for a proper blog post and listing sooner rather than later. From last week’s […]
1. Project Life nesting dies 2. Grid page journal (gifted) 3. Washi tape (gifted) 4. pet tag from the cheap shop 5. dies to match my letterpress label plates 6. Letterpress plate – assorted accents 7. Letterpress paper 4×6 8. A4 bookboard 9. Fimo to make this awesome Elsa figurine 10. A5 stamp carving block 11. Fimo modelling tools 12. […]
There is a little group of lovelies that I spend the best part of my year chatting to, crafting with and laughing at with. Each year we do a Secret Santa swap, and this year, I was playing Santa for Alley. This lovely miss is one of my quilt camp crazies friends, so I had a fair idea almost straight […]
I’m not showing a full spread this week – it’s nothing too exciting, mainly photos, with only the title card and this letterpressed cardstock card, and quite a few of the photos would need obscuring for various reasons, and so I have just a snippet today, to show off my pretty letterpress journalling card, and these cool instagram photo templates […]
There’s something about the look of letterpress. So rich and tactile and just delightful, but one of those things that I admired from afar. Then I came across the Studio Calico letterpress class. It was reasonably priced, and included some fun stuff to get started. The class kit was reasonably priced. I didn’t have a manual die cutter, but I’d […]
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