A Springtime Tale

**I apologize in advance, this story is neither funny or clever. 

Although, it did make ME laugh :P

 Happy Springtime Lovies...Eat Peeps till you puke!

xoxoxoxox

Nikki

Three New Stamps For Tonight

I am really trying to get the hang of letters, I am not that good at it.
But the new material I am using is WAY better than my previous stuff, so yea!

I am going to just keep practicing :D



I think I can improve this little guy too...



Just in case you were interested in the stamp material... "Cuts like Buttah"

I FINALLY tried out my YuDu Machine!

For my birthday, over a month ago, my friends and co-workers all chipped in and got me this...




So... I had the day off today and decided to finally take my new Yudu Screen printing machine out of the box! I had high hopes!!

The design I chose is one I made a couple of years ago and have been asked by so many people to have a shirt made with it.



So...I plugged in the machine & printed out my design on the transparency the machine came with. So far so good...



Then, I got the screen wet and attached the sheet of emulsion and stuck it in the little drying drawer. Took it out twenty minutes later & realized I had left the plastic sheet that separates the emulsion sheets on the emulsion! Took off the plastic sheet, re-wet the screen and stuck it back in the drying drawer for the second time. I must have used too much water the second time because it took an hour and a half to dry!!! I was frustrated!



I finally dragged out my blow dryer to finish the job!
However when I went to remove the plastic from the emulsion side, a tiny bit was still wet and it tore the emulsion in one little spot. But at this point I was so out of patience I went ahead and burned my image anyway. It actually burned very well.

However, once I rinsed of the emulsion I realized that some of the lines in my design were way to small & they peeled right off and actually ended up tearing some other parts of the design :(







So, really wanted to make shirts tonight, and was sad that I didn't get too...
But the experience was not a total loss.
Thanks to the handy dandy emulsion remover I was able to clean off the messed up design.




Which means the screen is nice & clean and can be used again for a different design another day...yea! I'm not scared to try again, but next time I will use a cleaner image with LARGER lines!

Don't get too close, I might stamp your face!!

So, I broke down and bought these cuz I suck at carving tiny letters by hand...now I want to stamp everything!!! don't get too close!! I might stamp you!





Bought it here & I'm so happy!!

My Etsy Store is FINALLY open for business!!

So, it's taken me forever....but I finally posted some items in my etsy shop...hooray!!

nikolina100.etsy.com

Get some before they are GONE!
Three scrumptious flavors to choose from:
Strawberry Swirl
Lemon Meringue
and Chocolate Raspberry
Yum!!










Check back often...I'll be posting many tasty & delightful things throughout the summer!

It's finally up!!

My design over at www.threadless.com needs votes and comments!!




yea!!! I'm so excited!!