I can’t tell you how excited I was to get this new publication from Chronicle Books. Papercutting: Contemporary Artists, Timeless Craft is an absolute treasure if you are at all interested in mad papercutting skillz. It’s filled with beautiful pics of work familiar to me, like that of Rob Ryan, Peter Callesen, Helen Musselwhite, Elsa …
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Papercutting
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Solid Orla
I’ve been wanting to do it for ages, and finally it’s done: My Orla design is available in a reversed-out version, and comes in three colours: fog, lemon and olive. I have all three colours available for sale as cushion covers to fit 50 x 50cm inners. Find them in my Etsy shop, and in …
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Inspired by Ping
Via Friday’s post on Design*Sponge I discovered the work of illustrator Ping Zhu, and I swear, I pored over every drawing in her portfolio. I luff, luff, luff it all. Inspired by some drawings on her blog that used photos from The Sartorialist blog, I pushed the keyboard aside and spent the rest of my …
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Making Friday: Flip!
I thought I’d spend some of my Making Friday learning how to make an animated gif of pics I took of this Cut Out & Keep fat quarter bundle that just arrived in the mail from Cloud9 Fabrics. Thanks to a video tutorial found on YouTube via Google, it took me all of 10 minutes …
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Letterpress with Planet Press
Last year I blogged about the letterpress cards I’d done in collaboration with Planet Press, the letterpress printers here in Cape Town, and for some reason it’s taken months and months and MONTHS to take the product shots and get them into my shops. Finally I pulled myself together, and you’ll find them both for …
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Making Friday: Sat 26 Feb
Another Friday rolled around with no Making included, apart from the nice straight line I helped make at the tax office. However, as Friday was swiftly followed by the second of the Saturday morning monotype workshops I’d signed up for at Warren Editions , all was not lost. This week we were doing watercolour monotypes, …
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Making Friday: Sat 19 Feb
No Making Friday for me last week, as Pearl’s away and I”m pretty frantic trying to do everything myself. But it all came to a wonderful full stop on Saturday, when Paul kindly took over my stand at the Biscuit Mill maket and I went off to do a monotype workshop at Warren Editions. When …
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Packaging nerds unite
I think I can officially be known as a packaging nerd. It was in 2008 that I received a couple of boxes from Heath Ceramics and three years on, I’ll still witter endlessly about the virtues of the Expandos that cradled my goods so expertly (read my old blog post about it). Today’s rhapsodising about …
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Hanging garden cutout
Was so pleased with my hanging garden (see yesterday’s tutorial post) that I did a paper cutout of it. That’s what I do when I’m happy – I get out my knife 🙂
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