Crafty Venture: Letterpress

I have recently attended a simple Letterpress class.

During the class, I was shown how to use the letterpress kit to press and print. It was so much fun.

After the class, I decided to buy a few letterpress plates (since I have already gotten the letterpress bundle kit from Studio Calico) and try it out at home.

There was a missing item from the bundle kit which I received and in the end, I was not able to achieve the desired effect I wished to see. I search the net for help and yes, I was able to replace the missing platform with a few pieces of chipboards. And voila, problem solved!

1st attempt at letterpressing at home.

Since the hubs and BIL birthdays are coming, I decided to print and make a birthday card for them using letterpress. After a few tries, the results were awesome.

A Bday Card for BIL whose bday is in Sept

I used a variety of papers (normal print paper and water color paper) to print beside the letterpress papers (to cut cost :) and I guess I am the happiest with the watercolor paper. The deboss effect was good and the texture of the water colour paper gives it a different feel. I have yet to water colour it, but that will be my next projects.

I have so many ideas churning in my head with this new tricks I learnt, just need more time to get into materialising it! Xmas cards and prezzies for sure!

Crafty Venture: Handstitched Books

I was always attracted to hand sewn books. The colours, the textures and the stitching. After trying out coptic stitching on my own (youtube is a great help), I wanted to attend a formal book binding class so that my foundation are right.

So on one of the Fridays, I went all the way to Siglap Centre and attended my first bookbinding class from Justina. I was the only student there. Justina was really nice and taught me the basic of bookbinding. The 3 hours class flew by.

At the end of the session, I was hooked. I bought papers, waxed thread and awl (I didn't know what was that prior to bookbinding) and are all ready to sew more books.

And after several nights of sewing and pasting, I am seriously addicted to this new crafty hobby. Well, I am learning new stitches on the internet now and trying to practise my stitching.