It always comes back to stamps.
I love making plushies, and I'm loving exploring needle felting, but no matter how far I stray it always comes back to stamp carving for me.
I've decided that this year I need to get back to my true love and spend some more time with my carving tools and some rubber. I'd like to say I want to make a proper go of refocussing Two Cheese Please... but with my day job and other commissions and current health issues (long story), I guess it's more of a "we'll see" New Year's Resolution. But I really want to try my hardest! We'll see :)
So here is my latest custom order - a logo stamp for Yesfia's House.
Once I'd decided I wanted to try and start making a proper go of focussing Two Cheese Please onto hand carved stamps (and occasionally plushies and needle felting), I thought I should update my packaging to something a little more professional and classy.
One of my favourite things about ordering from Etsy is that usually my little handmade purchases are wrapped so thoughtfully that when I receive them in the mail, it's like unwrapping a gift! So with that in mind I tried to work on some packaging that was a nice mix of the happiness of receiving a gift, as well as packaging that could do double duty as a stamp-storage solution - and this is what I came up with.
If anyone knows of a good supplier of these little recycled kraft cardboard boxes I'd love for you to share their details! Right now I'm buying them individually at retail price and that's going to get super expensive once I become a successful million-order stamp carving (ha ha I can be ambitious, right?!)
{In other news:}
♥ Only (a little over) 2 weeks until the date and I go on our big road trip to Sydney + Canberra! If anyone knows of any interesting sights to see (or craft shops to browse) please share!
♥ I have started my very first quilt! So far it's mostly just involved cutting tiny square after tiny square of fabric but I am loving the process of slowing down and concentrating and enjoying.
♥ I am down to 65kg! That means I have officially lost 30kg and am now a size 10! I will be celebrating with a massive day of op shopping soon to refit and refill my wardrobe, you can be sure of that!
I've decided that this year I need to get back to my true love and spend some more time with my carving tools and some rubber. I'd like to say I want to make a proper go of refocussing Two Cheese Please... but with my day job and other commissions and current health issues (long story), I guess it's more of a "we'll see" New Year's Resolution. But I really want to try my hardest! We'll see :)
So here is my latest custom order - a logo stamp for Yesfia's House.
Once I'd decided I wanted to try and start making a proper go of focussing Two Cheese Please onto hand carved stamps (and occasionally plushies and needle felting), I thought I should update my packaging to something a little more professional and classy.
One of my favourite things about ordering from Etsy is that usually my little handmade purchases are wrapped so thoughtfully that when I receive them in the mail, it's like unwrapping a gift! So with that in mind I tried to work on some packaging that was a nice mix of the happiness of receiving a gift, as well as packaging that could do double duty as a stamp-storage solution - and this is what I came up with.
If anyone knows of a good supplier of these little recycled kraft cardboard boxes I'd love for you to share their details! Right now I'm buying them individually at retail price and that's going to get super expensive once I become a successful million-order stamp carving (ha ha I can be ambitious, right?!)
{In other news:}
♥ Only (a little over) 2 weeks until the date and I go on our big road trip to Sydney + Canberra! If anyone knows of any interesting sights to see (or craft shops to browse) please share!
♥ I have started my very first quilt! So far it's mostly just involved cutting tiny square after tiny square of fabric but I am loving the process of slowing down and concentrating and enjoying.
♥ I am down to 65kg! That means I have officially lost 30kg and am now a size 10! I will be celebrating with a massive day of op shopping soon to refit and refill my wardrobe, you can be sure of that!