My week has had two significant highs - one was when one of my hand painted clocks was featured in a national newspaper. I wrote about that over here, so I won't repeat myself now. But it's probably worth mentioning again that Swanky Maison are responsible for the publicity - they are very good at that sort of thing!
So there has been a lot of clock painting this week!
The other significant high was teaching myself something from You Tube videos and online tutorials - it was so exciting when I finally "got" it! A new skill is always exciting, don't you think? Especially when it's all about pattern and colour...
You may well know I make digital stamps (images I have hand drawn then scanned so they can be downloaded and printed by customers for using with their own handmade cards). What I wanted to do was create patterned papers to go with those images. Up to now I've hand drawn (and hand-coloured) a few papers with varying degrees of success and always far too time consuming (often the way with handmade, I know).
But this week I had a breakthrough, and as a result I made some patterned papers using digital techniques - which for me is pretty significant and feels like a real success!
My next stage is making sets of them for sale - the digital equivalent of packaging and displaying them nicely.
Then I need to learn some more techniques, but having conquered this one I am now more confident about exploring and experimenting!
What have you been making or doing this week? Come and join in so we can pop by and see!
