Still carving leftovers of the print block...

One of my favorite quotes... now I should just start to live up to it ^^

Da es sehr förderlich für die Gesundheit ist, habe ich beschlossen glücklich zu sein.

I decided to be happy, it is excellent for one's health.

J'ai décidé d'être heureux, c'est excellent pour la santé.

                                                                                               (Voltaire)

And also a little leaf.... and a second insect wing :)

I glued the quote stamp on an old wooden stamp handle (without the original rubber).

While carving I am mostly using just two blades: One straight with a sharp point and a v-shape lino cutter. If there are rules I am following it would be mostly this three:

• always cut diagonal to get a broad base for the motif (1 / 2)
• outline the motive first (v-shaped blade) (3)
• always cut inner corners from the inside out (4)

This is the v-shaped blade of my lino cutter. Mostly I am using it to carve the outlines of my drawing.

I am just using the point of my paper knife or scallpel to cut in the corner. 

Mold for polymer clay...

If you already follow my blog you know that I like to create stuff which can be used to give polymer clay a shape. I used for this approach polymer clay itself which I stamped with stamps or just with weird things (to create structures ^^) or I pressed plants into it.

The problem was polymer clay sometimes stick in polymer clay molds. Laquer the molds didn't help. To freeze them helped a little bit... I got the hint that maybe oil or baby powder may help. This is both true! Helps a lot! But also let my chaotic enviroment get even more entropic! ^^

I had a lot of airdrying clay which was really cheap (not the best quality). I used it for testing shapes and structures...

In the leftover I pressed some plant... and used it some days after that as a mold for polymer clay. And guess what: The polymer clay didn't stick! Ha...! Love it!

Therefore I made a lot more molds! You never can have enough molds! ^^

PS: I use classic and soft fimo (polymer clay). If the soft fimo is... too soft, just cool it down a little bit. :)

Some lines + some dots = Mushroom stamp!

Yes, another mushroom. This time a big one.

I am experimenting with mushroom shapes... :)

...need a new ink pad...

...especially a fabrico (or a similar one... they renamed the brand?) for stamping on fabric!

Would be nice on fabric...mh... 

*neurons are still at work*

Inspirations: Smile! (Leipzig III)

...a dreamy smile :)

More small stamps... one never comes alone!

Just some leftovers I played with. The little bug is around 1 cm long... so really my small leftovers ^^

There are some ideas in my mind which I want to realize for some prints / cards. On one hand I didn't found the time until now to realize them and on the other I was still missing some material... 

The reason for the ideas is simple: Centi send me one of her beautiful flower ornament cards... and I want to send her a card in return. You know... that is already some time ago but when something is in my head (with its teeths bitten deep into my neurons) there is no way for me around is.

@centi: I didn't forget your card, I am still trying to figure out how to realize my idea. Hope you don't mind?! *imagine big puppy eyes*

Inspirations: Little foxes (university medical center, Leipzig)

...or: Cuteness overload! At least for me... :)

Some wild foxes found there home at the area of the medical center of the university of leipzig last year. Next are also a lot of faculties and also the botanical garden and a park located. So there is much space, some green and at the evenings or weekends it is very quiet.

This year they had their first offspring! I can watch them for hours.... and humans are just moving objects to them ^^

Don't worry: The district ranger (didn't know there are district rangers for all areas in the city!) controlled them. They are healthy, nothing to worry for humans. Even more, because of this, it is not allowed to relocate them ^^

Inspirations: On the streets (Leipzig VII)

I found some of the british royals in leipzig! 

They are cool with their strange necks...! 

Below of this door you can find a boy...

And guess what: Another pink monkey!

I love the pink with the spotted background ^^

Another stencil graffiti: 

A little skullflower!

Dragonfly Tile - Back to the stamps...!

...a little bit dark to use my digi...

I bought some new rubber carving blocks and started to make some new stamps. The first one is this dragonfly tile. I'll have to make a better picture with a new (or filled up) inking pad. Mine is... nearly empty. Grrr... but had to test the stamp as soon as it was finished! Love it even with the non perfect stamping :)

I inverted the colours of the pic... just to get an impression how it would look with a light colour on a dark background.

The carving process...

Inspirations: On the streets (Leipzig VI)

Say hello to the smiling upside-down trash can!

Maybe you remeber some of the pictures at the wall behind?

He is secured... so nobody can turn him back! ;)

A single shoe on the wall...

...and if you look up: The dragon! 

I love him! Just forgot to make some pictures of the dragon... although he is there for years and years!

I'll make some more pictures with better light. Promised :)

Wooden buttons...

I promised some more crafting projects over the weekend. Here is one of them: little wooden buttons. It also belongs into my only-a-few-minutes projects ^^

I found this little wood chips at the decoration stuff for flower arrangements. Cool. Loved them at first sight and also knew instantly that they would be perfect to make little buttons out of them.

There were only the holes missing. But this was a problem I solved using my beloved dremel :)

One could sand them to get a smooth surface but i like them rough as they are. Maybe nothing for clothing but they would be great as decoration and / or scrapbooking, nai? :)