Catching Up with my Creative Space

After my rather extended hiatus, I have decided to throw myself back in the deep end with a new craft. Stamp carving…of sorts.

I have been needing a name stamp for labels and things for a while, but haven’t found one I have been happy with. So when I stumbled upon a fab little craft shop in Winchester at the weekend, I decided to get all the bits I needed to make my own.

This linoleum stuff is newer and softer than the stuff you used to be able to get (apparently) and it cuts like butter.

I tried a couple of different approaches. The first was this one.

I used some letter stamps I had to create the outline of the text but it was very fiddly and ended up looking much more like an Asian print than I had anticipated. The ‘S’ is a bit wonky unfortunately. But its kind of okay.

The second one I did in about a minute.

I was just trying out one of the fatter blades and in truth I didn’t think it was going to any good, and it is a bit wobbly, but actually I think it might be my favourite! What do you reckon?

In a bid to get back into the swing of things I'm joining back in with Our Creative Spaces. Have a look, its always well worth a visit!

This weeks creative space - minicards rule!

So with ongoing work commitments, the next two weeks tied up in Jury Service (!?!) and assignment deadlines looming, I have had even less time to craft this week then last!

I have been creating however…

Mini Cards!!!

'Cute, but why?' you might ask...

Well, whilst I generally craft for my own kicks (I’m itching to get back to actually making something - funny how much I miss it when I can't do it), I would love to be able to sell some of what I make.

...One of my favourite daydreams is that I live in a sunny farmhouse in the country, pad around barefoot, make lots of scones/ other baked goods and sustain my way of life by crafting for a living... we can but dream...

In reality, I simply tend to make duplicates of whatever is on my crafting list that week and I can’t gift them all! So the way i figure it, they may as well go to a loving home somewhere else! Fortunately I promised myself at the start of the year, that I would slowly start finding ways of selling a few bits and pieces... hence the cards.

Now whilst I don't have anything to sell yet, or even a functioning shop to sell anything in for that matter (well i have a shell of an etsy shop but nothing worth peeking at yet) I got quite excited about Moo's minicards - so I took my first step towards meeting my new years resolution and created myself a few business type cards. I LOVE them! It perked up my day no end when they arrived. I will probably spend the next 6 months giving them out with gifts, rather than sending them out with items bought, but thats okay. At least its a start!

For more of this weeks creative spaces, pop over to kootoyoo

Lazy Sundays

I LOOOOVE Sundays.Chilled walks through the park, pottering through the markets, meeting  the husband for lunch and afternoons full of crafting.

I’ve not been doing so much of the crafting this Sunday.  I’ve been de-cluttering and wrapping instead.  I tend to enjoy wrapping almost as much as crafting – just as much call for prettiness and ribbon as ever.

My slightly less cluttered mantle piece

My sister and soon to be brother in law's present all sewn up

A long overdue Christmas present for my friend that I've been meaning to send on for AGES!!!

Pressy for my dad. I wrapped all of my Christmas presents like that this year. Gutted I didn’t get a picture of them. They looked fab!

  

I hope you are having a lovely Sunday whatever you are doing!