Mother's Day 2012

Though I'm not a mother quite yet, I pretty much feel like one. I've been growing this little girl within myself for several months now and she has become such a part of me. I can't describe in words the amount of love I feel and I haven't even met her yet.  It was a lovely experience this year making mother's day cards, knowing they will find their way in the hands of moms that feel the same type of tear wrenching love for their appreciative offspring.

May we all appreciate our own Mom this year. Tell her how you feel!

Happy Mother's Day Floral 

Happy Mother's Day Brocade

Happy Mother's Day Pear Flower

Gocco Gone Wrong

I was excited to use my Gocco for the first time today and try to burn and print a new brocade design. I watched 9 YouTube videos in preparation. I printed the paper at work on the HP Laser Jet. With the paper cut down to size, I set up the gocco and burned the screen. In every video the original just peels off the screen, mine however stuck. I had to peel a strip at a time and use a spray bottle to wet the paper to get it all off. I was able to push a small amount of ink through, but something is obviously not right. I backtracked all of my steps and watched 2 videos again. I'm pretty sure I did everything right. The only thing I can think of is that the Paper I used may be a multi-use paper with a bit of gloss and maybe it melted to the screen. I'm going to xerox a print out on normal paper and see if that changes things. I hate to waste another screen and 2 more bulbs if I'm doing something else wrong.

Anyone have any ideas or recommendations?

Sunshine State Inspiration

I spent last weekend on Fort Myers Beach with my husband's family. It did me a world of good to steal away from this cold New York winter for a few days. It was relaxing and gluttonous. I feel reinvigorated from nice amounts of Vitamin D. I can now get back to filling out fair applications, tax forms, and Create more stuff.

Creating has been on my mind the most. I've been toying with making a brocade for a while. I have a vision of printing a copper brocade with my new gocco and Letterpress my silhouettes in black on top. It will be as though the couples (my friends) that I've redrawn are communicating in our local bar, Sweet Ups. Well, that's the plan anyway. It always changes. Here's the brocade design.
I also realized that I could broaden my inspiration some. We saw so much beauty in Florida. Why aren't I drawing Palm trees, flip flops, and sea shells? Palm tress evoke a sunnier emotion to me than say an Oak tree with "Miss You" I've been concentrating too much on my comfort zone. More designs to come!