Magnetic Bookmark

Just recently I stumbled upon a Instagram account that sells this super cute Magnetic Bookmarks. The artist and online store is @craftedvan, the store idea is making their own version of known characters like Harry Potter and his friends, Up, , and even Sailor Moon and the Sailor Warriors (actually this is the set that I want to purchase).

Unfortunately, the problem is their online store is based on Canada. Though they have an Etsy store for international clients. But calculating it and knowing the price of the item and also adding the shipping cost from Canada to Philippines, it would be too expensive just for a Magnetic Bookmark. 

That is why I decided to make one for myself, I also search the internet if there are other online crafters in the Philippines, who makes and sells this kind of bookmark. After looking into it, I found that there aren't any seller magnetic bookmark here. So I decided to make one, being a crafter myself.

This is my first collection sketch. 

Stamp Carving Bonanza

Been doing stamp carving out or rubber materials since December last year. I started this hobby to help me relax myself from my regular work and freelance works. Stamp carving had helped me soothe my stress away and had help me to concentrate on doing one thing at a time since by nature I'm more of a multi-tasker. My intricate designs were inspired by Ms. Cynthia Arres, a Filipino Illustrator, I was looking for a tutorial using Xacto knife, when I stumbled her very useful and practical step by step guide in her blog.

 Since then I have already made maybe more than 20 stamps from easy to complicated design. Hoping to practice more to be able to carve lettering and intricate works more defined.

Here are some of my recent works and some commissioned works

 

Mini Workshop: 1 on 1

Last week, my best friend told me that her mom is interested in learning how to carve a rubber stamp; because I gave my friend a personalized rubber stamp (made from simple eraser) as a gift last christmas. She (my best friend's mom) was thinking that it would be a good hobby to do, so I accepted and said that I would be very delighted to be able to share my knowledge on rubber stamping. 

So we arranged to have our mini 1 on 1 workshop at their house yesterday, at first I was a bit awkward because it is the first that I would teach other people about my knowledge and thoughts on stamp carving. Truthfully, I'm still not an expert on this hobby because up until now I'm just using Xacto cutter and box cutter as my tools and not the usual Speedball Linoleum cutter, because for me it is still expensive and I still need to save some money to buy it; also here in the Philippines, Speedball products are still not readily available in the market. But hopefully in the future I may be able to buy one and be able to make a rubber stamp design out of it (fingers crossed....x x).