Yes, try not to soil yourself with excitement folks, but having thrilled you all with pictures of a shopping centre and my random wibblings about boys I fancy, I am now ready to get back to the matter in hand – crafting! I’m aiming to make this as handmade a Christmas as possible and my first port of call are the cards! I was keen to use my origami skills, in particular the dove shape I made many moons back. I also wanted simple, clean text. Those are not words which could be applied to my hand writing, so I decided to invest in a set of ink stamps. Much googling ensued and I kept coming across these babies……
Ooooooh!
God bless ebay, that’s all I can say! The stamps arrived today and mere moments ago, I knocked this up….
Well?
Obviously it’s pretty rough around the edges – my folding wasn’t as neat as it could be and I didn’t leave myself quite enough space for the Peace, but this is really just a first attempt to see if what I saw in my head worked in real life. I’m leaning towards red or green ink as it’s more festive and I want to source some patterned origami paper – I spotted some funky stuff in Hobbycraft the other day – any recommendations for good online stockists? What are your thoughts?
That’s truly hoopy. Deeply impressed by your ability to actually get stuff made! Loving the origami too.
That’s really cute, Pad! Nice work xx