My creative space - punk

The theme for the weekly EST challenge this time is PUNK! hosted by the lovely Nathalie aka Dinafragola.

Long, long time ago I was flirting a little with punk, you know, teenage years, searching for yourself try to do things your parents go crazy about, so my friends and I listened to Sex Pistols and The Clash (oh, I am not THAT old, we were more second generation fans) , a little ska, more of The Cure, tried the outfits, loved the black, no piercings and never dared the haircuts :) Well, small town girls from good houses try to be different, that's all.

So when Nathalie gave us the theme I was pretty excited, I thought of recycling one of the tons of crazy jewelry I had in those (semi) wild years, the big rings with the skulls etc., but yessss, they are all back in my old home, in Hungary...

That is the reason why on my table only the black velvety fabric is waiting for being recycled, all the other stuff, including those lovely skull charms are brand new.


Do you want to show your space? Hop over to Kootoyoo's to play! It's fun! :)

Linoleum printing - first attempt and a rustic rusty fabric tulip cuff

A while ago I was looking for some not too expensive solution to make stamps with my own design to use it on my fabric cuffs. First I wanted the easier way (not proud of it though :)), I make a drawing and someone makes some stamps for me. My light bulb moment happened when while surfing the net I remembered that Mitsy aka Artmind had once a lovely little tutorial on how to make your own stamps. That's it! There was the answer: linocut! :)

I ordered some basic material to start with, the 3 in 1 lino Baren Kit and some discs to make stamps. I found some great linoleum print tutorials on the web, like the one by Sunberst, and I just cut away! :)
I started with my tulip:

I am pretty pleased with the result, can always better of course :)

So I took my brand new fresh stamp and I printed some fabric too. Because the lines on the linoleum are not totally smooth I though of something rustic, so I recycled an old linen pair of pants picked out a rusty brown color and made this cuff:

Monday Moodboard - Hup, Holland, hup!

Yep, the hysteria is begun, today is the first match of the Dutch national soccer team on the word cup!

1. baby shoe "flowers" by Gabsie, 2. dutch brooch by ballee, 3. brooch by eexterhout, 4. flower by DutchCraftWork

If you want to see more mood boards, just visit fleurfatale's blog!