New Mother's Day Printed wrapping paper and cards

It's been a busy few weeks of developing new products for Spring. I am ever conscious that I want to hand make a proportion of my work so with that in mind I went to Leicester last week to expose a brand new screen to set about doing some screen prints for Mothers Day cards and matching wrapping paper.

Unfortunately my new screen is massive, it's not actually, it's A1 in size but as I am bearly 5ft with short arms to match the short legs, the purchase of this new screen may be a bit of a school boy error.

I was trying to be frugal as I can obviously squeeze more designs and products on to a larger screen but it only just fits on to my base board, think I may also need a new dining room table to work on. I should have realised the problem when I struggled to fit it into the car. Well I'd better get used to it I suppose as I'm stuck with it now!

Here is me working through some prints for new Mother's Day products.

Gotta love a bit of hot pink.

The finished items are available here in my etsy shop.

http://www.etsy.com/shop/evajeanie?ref=si_shop

A day screen printing

Over the last few months, I have been busy designing new products and am launching a new screen printed range. I love the screen printing technique, it's so fast and quite satisfying (when it goes according to plan) I have had a few mess up's, like blocking my entire screen when trying to print on an especially hot day, I just wasn't quick enough and the mesh all clogged up, total nightmare, had to strip the screen and start again. But that was a hard lesson, learnt the hard way!

I did quite a bit of printing yesterday, here's my set up in the studio:

I always mean to take some photo's when I am actually printing, but I'm a bit too scared to take any mid-print as I don't want to leave it too long and clog up my screen again (see I did learn a lesson).


Here are some of the products I have made that are now finished, I also have 6 more products that have been printed but not made up yet. I will also be selling some items as craft kits.

Big Button Pin Cushion 

Never loose your pincushion again with these super-sized button pin cushions, the perfect companion for your sewing project!

I Love Shopping Tote Bag

The first in a new range of printed bags, don't go shopping without one!