Christmas Cards

Today I was in Paperchase and was suddenly seized with the idea to do some glittery Christmas cards. A pack of red glitter, a glue pen and some red card and I was ready for action. They are now drying and spreading glitter over every nook and cranny of the house.

Do not think that there was no suffering involved though. Today turned out to be London's busiest Christmas shopping day so in honour of this they'd closed Oxford street and changed every bus route. yeah, that's really helpful.

To help us shoppers along they had the constant noise of a helicopter circling above us, big PA systems and weird promotional stands in the streets desperately trying to get people to spend money. It was like being in a warzone, except for the bombs and the general death and horror thing.

Anyway, tomorrow it's back to quilting...

Some Cards

I made a few cards, I have always collected round stickers of all sizes and colours. I am not sure why, but I have done so since childhood. I quite like making home made sticker cards because they are so simple. You have to work with circles and just think about composition and sticking. It never gets messy, it's quick and it's a pleasure. Sometimes I sit there for ages thinking where to put my spots.I am sure all my friends will get tired of these cards one day, but I could just go on and on forever.

Printing part deux

Here is some other things I made on my week away. This poster is just shy of A2 size and passed through the press three times. In alot of the cases I had to change typeface when I ran out of certain letters.

Printing Week

I have been away this week printing in a letterpress studio deep in the countryside. Here is are two things I made. The word art was made out of the biggest wooden type they had, it was huge. They said it once spelt out 'Liberal Party' but all that is left is R, A, T.

Rat
Art
Tart
Tara

Art it was in the end. This was the test piece but it's sort of my favourite because it is so dogeared and wonky.