Little ideas,Trees and Snowflakes

Back in February, I had an amazing trip to New York. As well as soaking up the sites, I went armed with a list of materials for future craft projects.
http://leesartshop.com/

I am a big fan of Martha Stewart, she has a range of craft materials and paper punches. At the time, these were hard to get hold of in the U.K
Little did I know when I arrived, that within 2 days of being in town, I was to end up in the audience of her daily home show.http://www.marthastewart.com/

NY NY

Easy carve tree

One material I was very keen to get my hands on, was this easy carve rubber. It is a similar material as a pencil eraser and comes in large sheets.  It is very soft to carve and makes great printing blocks, much easier to use than traditional Lino.

Easy carve experiments
Easy carve can't be bought in uk. There is a product made by Speedball called speedy carve.
http://www.lawrence.co.uk/acatalog/Speedy_Stamp.html   It is ok but tends to crumble a
little,especially when fine carving  small areas.

Versa craft  printing ink pad can be used on Fabric or paper.

I had bought these Versa Craft printing blocks last
Christmas.http://www.bladerubberstamps.co.uk/site/fabrico.php
I have 6 of them in a variety of colours.

Can be fixed to use on fabric

                                        
                                              I used them last year to make these cards.
                     

Muji snowflake stamps

  I also have these lovelies, bought in Muji. They have a very fine quality and print beautifully.

So this year I have been experimenting with combining the Snowflakes with the tree block.

Printed onto brown paper

Repeated on fabric

                                                     Not too sure how I will use it yet

Another colour way on paper

This was just a quick print to try another colour way. Further experiments on the way...

Jumpers for cups

Being the first day of November and because i could, this morning i have sorted and ordered my wool stash. I have had this basket for a long time.i think it is French and has compartments for wine bottles. I am happy it now has a new use.


Knitting for me is such an enjoyable pastime. On Sunday i wanted to stitch off and chill out. It had been a very difficult week, a roller coaster of a week. This coupled with a cold had sent me to the sofa, armed with lots of wool and needles, supplies of tissues ,endless cups of tea and homemade Millionaire shortbread from a craft fair the day before, here i stayed all day.

There are times when i see something and i just have to make, it is a compulsion that won't go away. I love these, inspired by the latest edition of www.mollymakes.com   Jumpers for cups...well it is nearly winter!