Ruby Victoria at Finders Keepers Brisbane

I am super excited to announce that Ruby Victoria will be having our debut at Finders Keepers market this weekend in Brisbane thanks to Jen as part of Bluecaravan's pop up shop on Saturday 5th and 6th of November at the Old Museum.

I will have a wide range of my printed work there for sale , linocut /letterpress greeting cards, bookplates, gift tags, packs of notecards and don't forget lots of Christmas tags to pretty up all your Christmas pressies. 

 

Image courtesy The Finders Keepers 

 

 

So if you live in brisbane or near by please go along and have a great day of shopping and entertainment

I just wish I could be there in person, maybe next time.

New Items just listed

Hi everyone 

I hope you are all having a lovely day , the weather is just beautiful here today, great weather for printing but before I shoot off down to the studio  

I just wanted to share with you a new listing have have just posted up on my Madeit and etsy stores 

I have decided to finally offer  mixed packs of letterpress printed gift tags in pack of 5 and 10, printed in great unisex colours so they can be used for any occasions or person  and they really are great value considering they are printed with traditional vintage lead type and are printed on beautiful soft 100% cotton rag paper 

If you are interested please follow the links to my Madeit of Etsy store 

I hope you like them  

Just a little update

I just want to apologise to you for my long absences here at the moment, things have been abit busy here of late with moving house and other things. 

 

I have been busy reprinting alot on my most popular greeting cards, a couple of weeks ago at Salamanca market during an insident when we were packing the car to go home, I had a fall and during the commotion some one helped themself to a box of my greeting cards, so the past couple of weeks have been spent at the studio reprinting approximately 600 greeting cards to replace the ones that were stolen.

I have also been busy drawing and printing some new bookplate those of you who follow me on Facebook will have already seen the pictures of them but I thought I would share here also 

 

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I am really happy with how they have turned out, I really hope you like them too

Thaumatrope: bird in the cage Illusion

Wow its been a bit of a long time bewtween posts on here by the looks of it, lots been going on here at home and at the studio

I have been getting ready for the Christmas season getting all stocked up for out trip up to Launceston for Niche and  other local markets around the place as well as filling  lovely wholesale order for Oatlands handmade, The Queen Victoria museum and art gallery bookshop and for Annie of Sanctum in Launceston. 

I have also been kept bus with all the local markets which are all hotting up which is wonderful and have attended a couple of new market for the first time like the Longford makers market up in the north of Tassie and at the lovely Nook market in North Hobart.

 I have been printing  lots of lovely festive greeting cards, notecards, and mini paper bunting/garlands as well as some new things that I haven't printed before and decided I just wanted to make them for the fun of doing something a little bit different.

Enter the Thaumatrope, A thaumatrope is a toy that was popular in Victorian times. A disk or card with a picture on each side is attached to two pieces of string. When the strings are twirled quickly between the fingers the two pictures appear to combine into a single image due to persistence of vision.

thanks for that description Wikipedia.

both sides of my handprinted linocut Thaumatrope

 

 

 

 And here it is in action

I have always been fascinated by things like this since I was a little dot and thought it would be a fun think to make and have for sale at the market this coming weekend and in my online stores so if you would like one keep your eye on my etsy, Madeit  and Bluecaravan stores :)

 I will be posting more photos later this week of a new greeting card design and three new book plates with images channeled from my more child like side.