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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Letterpress with Planet Press
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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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Cut out & keep
Just a little something I made today – part of an exciting project about which I may not breathe a single word. Shh…
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Tutorial: cut vinyl illustration
When I get my knife out, it’s usually to make paper cutouts, but also like to cut adhesive vinyl, as it has a couple of advantages over paper, namely: the finished cutout gets stuck to another surface, so you don’t have to be pernickity about designing something that will hold together, as you do with …
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Making Friday 30 July
Today was a full on Making Friday, not just a duty-bound one, as they often are, where I squeeze in a few hours after I’ve just finished this, and must quickly do that… This time I started early, switched off the computer, played loud music, and cut cut cut all day long. And as often …
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Colour cuts
Freeworld Coatings, the company that owns paint brand Plascon, commissioned me to do a couple of paint sample cutouts for their brand new offices, and I had lots of fun doing them, and here’s how they turned out: And talking about paint-related stuff, on the ELLE Decoration blog today, there’s such a cool step-by-step makeover …
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Leaves in full colour
You may recall that a little while ago I picked up some oak leaves in the Company’s Gardens on the way home and taped them to paper. This got pinned to my studio noticeboard for a bit, and then my knife and I had an idea for what we could do with it: Actually, I’m …
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Horoscopes of late
I’m still doing horoscope illustrations for Fair Lady magazine – I think it’s three or four years I’ve been doing them now – but haven’t shown many of them lately, so here’s a bit of a catch up with Gemini, Taurus and Cancer horos: They’re all made from sticky vinyl that I cut with my …
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Paper Pops at Poppytalk
As a result of being a Jury’s Choice in the Poppies Awards, I was lucky enough to be included in this month’s Poppytalk Handmade market, which is all about paper goods. I don’t usually sell paper things in my Etsy store, but as it happens, I do have something papery to sell: it’s the Cut …
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