Handmade talks with Mrs. Fadingflowers

Christmas Cards...

noreply@blogger.com (Fadingflowers) — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 12:25:00 +0000

Finally I was motivated to screen print these lovely Christmas Cards. Took me awhile to think of what to illustrated and here it is in real print. I really like the color sage ink and the illustration of the fawns, which makes a perfect combination to my holiday collection. Anyway these cards are available at my etsy shop & Happy Holidays!

A fresh new start

noreply@blogger.com (Fadingflowers) — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 12:01:00 +0000

A fresh new start on my business and business design. I also had a gocco itch and wanted to always gocco my business card. It took me awhile in coming up with the designs. Here it is I present to you my screen printed business cards:

I illustrated the flowers and screen printed 200 of them. Somehow, I don't want these cards to be departed to some strangers.

Brooklyn Homeshow

noreply@blogger.com (Fadingflowers) — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 13:46:00 +0000

Hi Mrs. Fadingflowers here, I have been extremely busy on my end. I'm trying to prepare and design the Brooklyn Homeshow flyers and postcard. I'll be making appearance by selling my handmade screen prints stationery cards. I'm psyched and can't wait to see everyone again.

Here's the info where it'll be at:

On October 11th, 2008, just before the start of the holiday season, a local artisan will open her Park Slope apartment to the public for an intimate shopping event. Several local artists and designers have been invited to showcase their handmade goods and to meet with shoppers for the one-day-only shopping event.

Brooklyn Homeshow
October 11, 2008
11 am - 6 pm

Please visit us for more info:
http://www.freewebs.com/bkhomeshow/index.htm

Here's the flyers and postcard design. You can download it and view it.

http://www.box.net/shared/61q3hc9pzy
http://www.box.net/shared/l0nsceszxh

Hope to see you there!

I love Tea Cup Sets

noreply@blogger.com (Fadingflowers) — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:01:00 +0000

I don't know when my passion begin in collecting tea cup sets. I just love everything about it when it comes to drinking all sorts of teas. The aroma and the sweetness that runs through my mouth and the relaxation that sends through my body helps me brightens my day. I especially like the Vintage flowery pattern of the design in tea cup sets. I was lucky enough to score two tea cups sets at Anthropologie. They had a sale section and was marked down to $7.95 with the cup and saucer. Although, it isn't handmade but I think it deserve to be in a nice home.

handmade Cavalcade

noreply@blogger.com (Fadingflowers) — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:12:00 +0000

The {New New} York Etsy Street team are making their appearance at handmade Cavalcade - Beacon, NY on September 13, 2008. Be sure to take the time and visit them. Certainly this will make a fun get away trip with my family. I just have to see how my schedule fits in. I would love to support my street team members for taking their time to travel to take part for this event. I wish them the all the best and happy selling.

Here's the link to the directions

Wedding Season

noreply@blogger.com (Fadingflowers) — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:57:00 +0000

Sorry for the lack of updates, however I'm trying to get everything together on my end. Wedding Season seems like it's going to start again and I'm hoping some wedding projects will keep me busy during the fall/winter season. I really enjoy pulling together all nighters and designing different wedding designs for all sorts of happy couples who are getting married. Anyway I will present more of my projects to you all soon.

Please feel free to see some of my wedding portfolio:

My Gocco Wedding Portfolio

Gocco how to Tutorial:

noreply@blogger.com (Fadingflowers) — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:38:00 +0000

History of what Gocco is:

Gocco is a device that was invented in the 1970's, is a system that develops quick and easy printing. It is somewhat similar to a rubber stamp pad. If you wish to read more about it please click on the following link: what is gocco?

Using a gocco isn’t that hard, it’s really simple as long you are prepare and that you have all your supplies with you. Although there are few times I made some errors – it’s all about experimenting and accepting the errors you made.

Supplies – Gocco models - pg –5 or pg-11 – these two are the most popular models, although I really like the pg-11 cause the pad table is movable where you want to align your work.

I’ll be using my pg-11 for my gocco tutorial. In this tutorial I’ll be working on wedding related project I recently accepted. I’m working on Save the Date cards.

First I gather all my supplies:

Bulb
Master screen prints
Inks
Blue filter
Papers
Pencil
PG-11 machine & PG-11 Lamp Housing

Using a pencil comes in handy cause I like to align all my work before I start the actual printing.

The Design:

When designing from the computer make sure your dpi resolution set to a high resolution. For instance the image that I set is on 100 dpi resolution and text part is 600 dpi. You want to avoid printing your work pixilated. I always like to get clear and smooth prints.

Then I printed out my design on a laser jet printer on a black and white format. Make sure print out has a lot of carbon ink so this way your artwork will transfer onto the master screen print with out any problems. Or another way you can use a carbon pen and draw on your work.

Next I set my print out work onto the gocco pad plate.

Tips: Be sure to use a cardboard to set on top of the sticky pad. Do not expose the print out straight onto the sticky pad, Your carbon print out might not capture your work on to the master screen print cause the sticky pad is too strong that the paper will stick on the pad from keeping it from being expose once you lift up the gocco device.

I had once incident that I did not put the cardboard on top of the sticky pad and the design that I expose was stuck on the sticky pad keeping it from getting exposed to my master screen print.

Once I align and set where I want to expose my screen – don’t forget the blue filter and also the lamp housing.

The filter is to help you from prevent the carbon print out getting it stuck to the master screen print.

Here's are the final results of two of my master screen print being exposed:

At this stage I’m inking up my screen and printing it out and tada here’s the final touch.

And here's the final touch print out:

In this project I split up two screens because the area within the gocco device isn’t enough space for me to capture everything within one screen print out. The most I can capture is 6x4, so be sure to plan out ahead and figure how much space you need before printing and working on your design.

Hope you enjoy the little mini gocco tutorial, it’s a fun little project for all different occasion. Just remember practice makes perfect.

Sweetie Bird Heart

noreply@blogger.com (Fadingflowers) — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 15:24:00 +0000

Sweetie Bird Heart - 3, originally uploaded by fadingflowers.

I decided to screen print this for my Mid-Winter Gocco Swap. It's going to be late cause of packaging and mailing it out. The weather doesn't help much since it's so cold outside I have to wait until the weekend.

Will You Bee My Valentine?

noreply@blogger.com (Fadingflowers) — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 13:05:00 +0000

Will You Bee My Valentine? - 2, originally uploaded by fadingflower.

Recently created this for V-day. I really like the illustration of the bee that I drew, it is so cute. Hopefully I will create more cute stuff to screen print in the future. I feel like my creative mood is flowing back in now.

Gocco Christmas Cards

noreply@blogger.com (Fadingflowers) — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 21:35:00 +0000

Neko Christmas Card, originally uploaded by fadingflower.

After much long hiatus and disappearance, I'm trying my best to work on more gocco projects this coming months. It isn't easy while I'm juggling between taking care of my 1 year old daughter along with my gocco printing. I really enjoy gocco printing, it helps me ease my mind while I'm not taking care of my daughter. Since the holidays are coming I decided to screen print some Christmas Cards. And here it is a little cat playing with a christmas ornament. Isn't it sweet?

I'm feature at cuteable.com

noreply@blogger.com (Fadingflowers) — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 02:42:00 +0000

One of my stationery set is feature at cuteable.com: http://cuteable.com/cuteable-finds-37/660

Featured in Etsy Tresury

noreply@blogger.com (Fadingflowers) — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 00:28:00 +0000

I'm featured at Etsy Treasury and I want to say my big thanks to WHSKR

http://www.etsy.com/treasury_list.php?room_id=4534

More Projects

noreply@blogger.com (Fadingflowers) — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 16:58:00 +0000

I've been doing some illustrations recently, so this way I can make more prints using my gocco. However, I had to reformat my hard drive, it's going to be for awhile before I can do any gocco prints. I realized that a lot of people at etsy and flickr like my little birdie that I made. I'm hoping to come up with a better design of it.

Been so busy at home entertaining my daughter these days. Plus I'm low on stocks of materials that I want to use. Hopefully I'll get more business in the long run...

Classic Pooh

noreply@blogger.com (Fadingflowers) — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 13:26:00 +0000

My current and latest gocco creation of Classic Pooh on on Pegasus Brilliant White Smooth Finish 5 1/8 x 7 Panel Cards Set using Black Ink.

First post

noreply@blogger.com (Fadingflowers) — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 12:31:00 +0000

I decided to post my gocco works here from now on. Hopefully I will have more to show you all in the future. I also hope to provide tips and tricks for people who uses gocco in the future. One of my works is currently features at this site: http://preciousstyle.blogspot.com/

Also please take your time to take a look at my etsy shop. Thanks for coming - Mrs. Fadingflowers