Just for fun

If I ever find decent tshirts to buy wholesale I will start making some designs up, this one is just for fun for me on an old top but I think its looks pretty snazzy.

Bling Bling Bling

Approaching entirely new territory here but I've been doodling up a new range of screen printed wearable pieces and this is the first idea to wet my feet, see how it looked to open up more ideas etc but I'm pretty pleased with it!

a little something over the weekend

I got this lovely lovely fabric from a charity shop in the UK ages ago which I printed on a while back (remember?) and basically I got bored of it and only just remembered to make something of it this weekend and made it into a cushion so voila!
It feels really nice and squishy because I made a lining plus stabliser, going to make the filling as its an odd shape (I think) but what is the normal filling for a cushion polyfil or feathers?!

edit: since listed it on Etsy here.

something in the pipeline

Been playing around screen printing these doily designs but its not coming out as well as I'd like so might be back to the drawing board to improve these but other then that, still working on my catalogue, I keep waiting to add new ideas to it but I realised (in the shower of all places!) that basically I'm always going to have new ideas so its never ending & one of my resolutions this year was to stop faffing around, being indecisive & dragging things out/being more productive so I've made it my goal tomorrow to try and finish it so that I can send it out by the end of this week.

Tea bag coasters - screen printed cork

So its midnight and I should be packing for tomorrow but I just finished cutting these out and think they are too cool to wait a week !

I've for a very long time wanted to do this design idea but never found time, pretty happy with how they turned out, might do ones with different types of tea, not sure but English Breakfast is my favourite. I can't even think of other types of tea :S

Right shower then packing !

DIY screenprinted labels

So I was going to get some bigger woven labels but kept putting it off because I am me, then I thought to screen print some labels & viola ! Does anyone know what the first 2 are called? is it twill or tape!?

here it is sewn up, looks pretty handmade but meh my stuff is handmade so it is what it is I guess.

And here is my Rex cushion / plushie, he doesn't properly stand up right on his own, you have to balance him juuuust in the right spot but I'm happy with the results.

In the making

Spent today sorting out a screen to do these 2 colour screen prints onto some thrifted fabric (backed with stabiliser so its nice and flat)

Hopefully this will look as good as I imagine in a frame as a piece of art.

sneak peaks

In the words of Rolf Harris 'Can you guess what it is yet?'

Random foamy arrows

I've had this arrow design burned on a silk screen for a while but have yet decided where and how to apply it but for some practice I printed it onto foam and I think it looks pretty cool !

I love these colours, so fun and reminds me of a dreamy British summer.

I do love to screenprint

Screenprinting is FUN! Everytime I lift up the screen & the print has come out well, you get this little feeling of 'YAY' inside & I find the more I print the better I become at it, which makes me worried about moving to Hong Kong next year as the only studio I can find isn't that great & is really expensive. I wish I could just take my home set up here over there :((((

puppy brooch, screens, restlessness

I'm not allowed to have a real puppy so I made one
I've been taking him for walkies :D

Feeling pretty restless & bored today :( wanted to go swimming but it's 'ladies' evening or something today so can't go (because of my boyfriend not because I've changed into a man :P

Just burned these screens too, came out okay which is niiice

cassette image ready for screenprint

Yes I know it's been done before many times over BUT there's a reason & that's because they're sooo cool, the cassette has to be one of the designs that will never die out. I've already burned the below image onto a silkscreen so just waiting for me to print, also have a new character design burned onto a screen too which if all goes well will be be made into dolls.