You win some you lose some

Hi, sorry I've been a bit tardy with my blogging, I thought adding in my last post that I'd be back on the Friday would ensure I was - clearly not!

But my time hasn't been wasting and I have some lovely new cards in my Etsy shop. Not that it was all plain sailing as not all my designs or colour combinations worked but its just a simple reminder of the obvious make sure the ink is a brighter and darker colour than the card (duh).

Heres my furry fairy who didn't quite come out as I'd have liked...

I don't think she looks very furry, a bit spikey maybe, so its back to the drawing board with her.

I found its better use bright colours as my earlier Pining for Yew seems quite heavy and not very Christmassy when you compare it with these...

The blue is a bit faint there as it was the last of the ink but I quite like the broken effect, it came out qute shabby chic (to me anyway).

And here are some that came out all lovely like :)

So if you wanna spread a bit of Peas on Earth of if you'll be Pining for someone this Christmas these could be the perfect cards for Yew (couldn't resist).

Pining for Yew

I may have many plastered fingers and an incredibly stiff neck & shoulders but here it is- my first Christmas card, welcome to the world!

I've printed up the first of three design's (which was plenty for one day) and will be tackling the next on Thursday.

Points to note:

• Small lino cut letters are a flippin pain to cut out.
• Hand guards were invented for a reason - buy one!!
• Fight the urge to cut towards your hand (unless you have said hand guard)
• Don't be stingy with the ink.
• Art shop vinyl much easier to work with than the floor variety!

My first few didn't turn out cause I was worried about overloading the vinyl with ink and clogging it but I needn't have worried & ended up wasting 4 cards.

With regards to the vinyl the shop bought stuff is much better, much softer and more flexible (though that flexibility make's getting the larger & teeny tiny areas off more tricky).

So here it is, see what you think :)

These will be available on my etsy shop with the others to follow by the end of the week. A lovely hand printed card to send to the loved one who you are apart from this Christmas.

Printing 1 - 0 Katy

Ah it didn't work it didn't work! BUT on the plus side no ink disasters, decided that a large box lid and upside down rug would provide sufficient downstairs protection and as far as I can see there are no pink handprints about.

I have to say though for those of you considering using left over floor lino - don't. It was fairly hard and rigid but due to the lovely fake wood effect added a texture that didn't really work in this instance.

Saying that though I could see it working with other designs, maybe an under water something so all is not lost. But you know what this means, time to bite the bullet and pay for some 'proper' lino (so cheap ha ha).