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Month: April 2013

Letterpress Print: Idea of Growing Old by The Features

I have been busy working on a project in my letterpress class that I’ve had to keep under wraps. The end result was a birthday gift for Wonder Boy. Well that birthday has come and gone and now I can share what I’ve been creating!Using a combination of a hand-carved linocut, a plate I ordered online and type I laid out, I created this print:

What I might have, in the past, assumed to be simple, took a ton of work! This was three passes on the press and took more hours than I ever would have anticipated. But I love the results and so did Wonder Boy. Success!

The text is a portion of the lyrics of The Idea of Growing Old by The Features, me and Wonder Boy’s favorite song by our favorite group.

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Because Something Will Stick

Lately, I feel driven to create. I am trying out new crafts and projects at a rate that has even me wondering what I’m up to. Linocut. Letterpress. Making greeting cards. Glass cutting. Candle making. Sewing. It’s a lot.It’s like inside I have this motivation to create something beautiful and I know of the right outlet just yet. But if I keep trying all of these thing, eventually one will stick. And in the meantime, I’ll keep throwing my creations things up on Etsy. (Not the skirt I sewed. Fail.)

Although I haven’t found my right outlet yet, at least what I am doing is getting some positive feedback. Postcardology’s Space featured my typographic bird notecards and they also got a mention on DzineWatch!

Typographic bird notecards available on Etsy.

 

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