Printing on shirts..

One of my favourite projects this year was printing shirts with a large bird block. I loved the coloured detail of the sun so much. And still can’t decide if I like the design on a white or grey shirt best. I used my A3…

Custom stamps Oct / Dec 2022

The year comes to an end and it’s time to look back at the last three month of the year. I made a design for a lovely newborn baby girl, custom Christmas stamps, animals and some logo stamps. I’m looking forward to the new year…..

DIY: Postcard with paper and stamps

Make a unique postcard with paper, inkpad and a few small stamps. If you don’t have stamps, no worries, cut a potato in small shapes (squares, triangles or maybe a star) and use those little shapes as stamps.

Blockprinting tutorial

In this blog I’m going to explain  how you can easily make a print from a rubber block. Material list: Gouges: I used speedball and flexcut gouges for the blog. The speedball gouges are nice to start with. They are not expensive, they are sharp…

The 19″ Woodzilla presses

The 19″press is slightly bigger than a normal A3 press. Perfect for projects on paper and fabric!! Have a look in our shop here… For USA customers, the Woodzilla presses are available via Speedball art USA.

Custom stamps Oct/Dec 2021

Stamps made in the busiest time of the year. Carved them in between all Christmas orders. I really enjoy making custom stamps especially when I have a lot of “normal” orders on my desk because its a great to have variety!!

Printmaking without carving tools

If you don’t have lots of time but you want to make something special in an easy way without ‘difficult’ tools… this tutorial is perfect for you! In this tutorial I’ll learn you to make an art print with only a few materials. The result…

Tutorial shrink plastic and stamps

I promised a long time ago to make a tutorial about using stamps on shrink plastic and make the cutest thing with it, for example brooches, earrings, key chains etc. So here we (finally) go. What do you need to get started? Shrink plastic sheets…

Sailor print becomes a doll…

This idea was already a while in my head. Making  a fabric doll, only using stamps. So the face, beard, prints on the clothes everything is hand carved and printed. It took some time to make the doll. But I loved it so much. Especially…

Custom stamps September/ October 2020

The weather becomes colder, autumn is in the air. No carving outside anymore..I’m back in the studio! I feel so happy with all custom stamp requests. Next month I’ll will have a short stop on custom work because of all Christmas orders but for now…

Custom stamps July /August 2020

We haven’t planned a vacation this year (due to covid) and I decided to close the shop just for a few weeks. To work on some personal projects but mostly to play with and enjoy the kids. Of course I made also some custom stamps….

Collaboration with a (for now secret) restaurant

I made this 27 stamps for a restaurant. You can probably guess what’s on the menu there 🙂 I can’t give you all info because the project is on hold due to corona. Hopefully I can share the illustrations on packaging etc in a while….

NEW Face masks

Let’s face it!! New handprinted and handmade face masks are available in my shop. They consists of two layers of fabric and have a pocket opening, where a third layer could be inserted. Such as a filter, a piece of flannel or kitchen towel/paper work…

Custom stamps May/ June 2020

A overview of stamps I made in the months May and June. It was a busy month with lots of custom stamp requests. Below you can see a overview..         

Logo design for Blackbird and Violet

I’m not a graphic designer and I don’t do this a lot…but it was great fun to design a logo for Blackbird and Violet. I made a print of the design and digitized it. Now it’s perfectly to use on packaging and labels.