cards

aforementioned cards...in four yummy cheerful colours.

ps...printer has arrived, am itching to open it, but not today, got company... hence short post :)

back again

hello all!

i was planning on a break until the new year, but i've actually done some work so i thought i'd share. my fabulous husband bought me a gocco for christmas, yay, so the other day i made my first screen based on a little doodle/sketch of houses. i'm sooo glad i did lots of reading up on the process before jumping in at the deep end. i only got a couple of screens in the box, and i was worried to death that i'd ruin them both! but luckily it went swimmingly, and the result is 'little boxes'. this has been printed over a small basic collage of various papers, then hand coloured using watercolour brush markers...i'm kinda pleased with how it turned out, someone on flickr said it reminded them of the 'mr. men' books, which is exactly what we've been reading to the boys at bedtime. you never know where you're going to get inspiration...without even realising it! ;)

oh christmas tree, oh christmas tree...

how lovely are your branches...and so on. just to prove i have been working away in the background, i thought i'd post this christmasy piece. it's a possible christmas card design, to be printed with vegetable or soya inks onto recycled card. if all goes well, they'll be some up for sale in the etsy shop nearer the festive season. if somebody had told me at the beginning of this blogging malarkey that i'd have blogged twice about christmas in october, i wouldn't have believed them. i'm a 'start buying stuff on the 23rd december' kind of girl :)