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Getting ready ...

For my first stall at our local bi weekly community market on the 23rd July.  It's a bit of a leap of faith, putting myself out there and I've chosen to collaborate with a lovely lady who currently sells my cards and art in her shop. Hopefully the combination of art, cards, lovely smellies, hurricane lamps, vases etc etc will entice a few folk to visit the stall and hopefully generate some sales for us both.

So I've been busy framing limited edition prints and building up my stock of cards in preparation. I'm relying of some of my more popular cards plus I've created a couple of new ranges over the last fortnight.

Cactusill
Lino tree










I've been intending to draw and paint cactus for a while and after being inspired by stamps from the Woodware Craft Collection I finally got around to it.  Originally created for my daughters birthday, Cactusill includes the middle section from my watercolour Plasencia for the view outside the window.  I have since created another version with another watercolour - this time an unnamed view from our recent travels in Croatian - and the cactus are appearing on quite a few other cards at the moment.

The second new range I am referring to as my eco range.  These are being printed onto 100% recycled card and, to date, they only depict copies of my original linocut prints.  As I've only ever done two linocuts the range is a little limited at the moment 😆 but I'm going to 'launch' them on market day.  All of my cards are printed onto FCS approved cardstock but in the past I've not found white recycled cardstock that holds its crease neatly without cracking or blowing out.  For my Eco range I'm not using white and they're fine so its possible that the process has improved - I will have to try again.

Right, I need to be off to see if I can create a third linocut before next weekend !!

Thanks for reading

Wendy xx

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