Weekend Festive Fun...

Last weekend I found myself with a few spare hours, which has been a little unusual for me, so, with lino blocks, lino cutters, designs, inks and over 100 blank cards to hand I set about creating my Christmas Cards for 2014.

I only did 1 design last year, this year I wanted 3.  And I did 3.  There's something about lino cutting and printing that I just love.  I'm not saying for one minute that my designs or technique are perfect, far from it, but I just thoroughly enjoy each process.  Maybe its the 'repetitiveness' of it?  Maybe its the definite stages you go through with printmaking?  Maybe its just the whole kit n caboodle! :-)

So, in just under a weekend, 120 cards have been designed, cut, printed, dried and bagged up - and even more surprisingly, I've managed to sell enough to family and friends so that I've just broken even! Which is handy as I've already spent any profit I may have made on more lino blocks, ink, roller etc ready for more designs for during the year.  So many people have suggested I do some craft fairs...so I think I will, would be nice to have a self-funding hobby!...

 Not many people can say they have 40 snowmen drying out in their dining room!! I think this has turned out to be my favourite design... and prints up beautifully.

 At one point I had over 130 cards on every available inch of space drying out (much like the artist herself should consider given the bottles of spirits battling for space!)

All three Christmas Cards 2014 - and very please with them I am too!  the Red Christmas Stocking was probably the nicest one to print and the Holly and Berries the fiddliest...but all good practice for other designs to come.