Michelle Ward/GreenPepperPress Blog

tutorials

March 26, 2012

I’m taking advantage of “pages”, which are similar to posts except they are static. I can re-visit things I have posted on my blog(s) for easy reference here. First up are some tutorials that you might find useful.

I’ve gathered some of the visuals and information I have previously posted about carving stamps HERE.

If I can think of anything else you might find useful I will add to it.

My column in Somerset Studio, (July/August 2012) encourages making your own stencils and masks.

To support that I have assembled all previously published material I have shared about stencil cutting.

See HERE.

Click through HERE to see some of the tips I’ve previously posted about using photoshop.

Coming Soon!

Coming Soon!

To see how I mount my unmounted rubber stamps, click through HERE.

Tutorial coming soon! For some basic details on paper casting see my article in the September/October 2013 Somerset Studio.
tutorials

March 26, 2012

I’m taking advantage of “pages”, which are similar to posts except they are static. I can re-visit things I have posted on my blog(s) for easy reference here. First up are some tutorials that you might find useful.

I’ve gathered some of the visuals and information I have previously posted about carving stamps HERE.

If I can think of anything else you might find useful I will add to it.

My column in Somerset Studio, (July/August 2012) encourages making your own stencils and masks.

To support that I have assembled all previously published material I have shared about stencil cutting.

See HERE.

Click through HERE to see some of the tips I’ve previously posted about using photoshop.

Coming Soon!

Coming Soon!

To see how I mount my unmounted rubber stamps, click through HERE.

Tutorial coming soon! For some basic details on paper casting see my article in the September/October 2013 Somerset Studio.
OnWARD

March 22, 2012

The second installment of the OnWARD & UpWARD Collection is now listed for pre-order at GreenPepperPress.com. These images coordinate with the new stencils I showed you in the previous post. I tend to design stamps that I want to have and use. I love having more than one size of a favorite image or pattern. Repetition with multiple scales, swoon. Both stamps and stencils are now offered at a pre-order discount for a limited time.

If you're like me you wonder how the images actually figure into the formats you work with so I have scaled some of the stamp samples digitally.

Visit GPP if you are interested in pre-ordering the stamps and or stencils.

Thank you for all the kind words about my postcards. I loved making them and have adapted the design to a larger format….I will show you soon!
OnWARD

March 22, 2012

The second installment of the OnWARD & UpWARD Collection is now listed for pre-order at GreenPepperPress.com. These images coordinate with the new stencils I showed you in the previous post. I tend to design stamps that I want to have and use. I love having more than one size of a favorite image or pattern. Repetition with multiple scales, swoon. Both stamps and stencils are now offered at a pre-order discount for a limited time.

If you're like me you wonder how the images actually figure into the formats you work with so I have scaled some of the stamp samples digitally.

Visit GPP if you are interested in pre-ordering the stamps and or stencils.

Thank you for all the kind words about my postcards. I loved making them and have adapted the design to a larger format….I will show you soon!
lucky day

March 16, 2012

Happy St. Patrick's Day! I had full intention of making and sending cards this year but I didn't get them completed in time so here is a virtual one I can share with everyone. I have been busy at the studio table making these….but they were for iHanna's annual postcard swap. I was full messy mode and found a fun format to work in, or is it formula? Maybe it's neither. Maybe you could call it a series. I like to formulate series…..and I LOVED breaking in my new stencils from SGP!

So here's the LUCKY part of today….Stencil Girl Products is now encouraging me to sell my designs on my site, Green Pepper Press. I have uploaded all the stencils, including four new ones released this week, at my site. Next week I will add the paypal buttons for the shopping cart. I will also be revealing some new rubber that coordinates with the stencils!!
lucky day

March 16, 2012

Happy St. Patrick's Day! I had full intention of making and sending cards this year but I didn't get them completed in time so here is a virtual one I can share with everyone. I have been busy at the studio table making these….but they were for iHanna's annual postcard swap. I was full messy mode and found a fun format to work in, or is it formula? Maybe it's neither. Maybe you could call it a series. I like to formulate series…..and I LOVED breaking in my new stencils from SGP!

So here's the LUCKY part of today….Stencil Girl Products is now encouraging me to sell my designs on my site, Green Pepper Press. I have uploaded all the stencils, including four new ones released this week, at my site. Next week I will add the paypal buttons for the shopping cart. I will also be revealing some new rubber that coordinates with the stencils!!
minimalism

March 13, 2012

Our challenge this month on the Street Team is a exercise of restraint. Hold back. Compose cleverly so there is more breathing room, less clutter. Often we think that untouched space means it's unfinished. Not true. Less isn't superior or inferior, just a different approach. Busy can be good too. There are no rules, but for this crusade it's been interesting to see how the artists have responded to purposely going minimal. Like this the page below….because last week I saw my first new patch of clovers!

This will be the last crusade for a while as I take a self-imposed hiatus. Maybe you'll come play?

Find us HERE.
minimalism

March 13, 2012

Our challenge this month on the Street Team is a exercise of restraint. Hold back. Compose cleverly so there is more breathing room, less clutter. Often we think that untouched space means it's unfinished. Not true. Less isn't superior or inferior, just a different approach. Busy can be good too. There are no rules, but for this crusade it's been interesting to see how the artists have responded to purposely going minimal. Like this the page below….because last week I saw my first new patch of clovers!

This will be the last crusade for a while as I take a self-imposed hiatus. Maybe you'll come play?

Find us HERE.
yummy

March 12, 2012

Have you seen this one? It's been showing up recently on morning television. A 3-1/2 minute mini-film for Cartier. Beautiful. Reminds me of the Chanel ads from a few years ago.

Thanks for all the cookie chatter! I love that so many of your chimed in. More to come later this week. We aren't done with cookies yet!
yummy

March 12, 2012

Have you seen this one? It's been showing up recently on morning television. A 3-1/2 minute mini-film for Cartier. Beautiful. Reminds me of the Chanel ads from a few years ago.

Thanks for all the cookie chatter! I love that so many of your chimed in. More to come later this week. We aren't done with cookies yet!