January 23rd, 2008

Sugar Nellie Rubber Stamp Illustrations

Karen from Sugar Nellie approached me a couple weeks ago to create some illustrations for her rubber stamp collection. Sugar Nellie is a UK based rubber stamp company. These stamps are often used in card making but can also be used for scrap booking or other paper crafts.

There are some incredible card-makers out there, making absolutely beautiful cards with these stamps! I met a couple of wonderful artists while working on this project - check out their blogs to see some of their lovely work: Erica at Scrapalicious and Claudia at Pretty Pressings (both these ladies have also kindly asked to use one of my illustrations in their banner!)

The challenge in creating these stamps was to take my sketchy style and convert it to solid black and white lines. I made a few attempts in Photoshop but ended up having to bring my illustrations into Illustrator in order to get the type of line quality needed to make rubber stamps. I was worried about losing my style in Illustrator, as it’s vector based and doesn’t give the same light/sketchy feel that can be achieved in Photoshop. I played around with different lines and techniques and ended up with a vector version of my style that I’m really happy with!

The collection of 9 stamps is based on my characters, ‘Simon and Lola’. There are also a couple animal friends in the collection - I love illustrating animals and couldn’t leave them out! The collection should be available in a couple weeks at Funky Kits. I’ve included a sneak peak of three of the stamps (they must be watermarked rather intensely in order to prevent people from simply printing them out for their cards… tisk tisk)!

I’m so excited about this collection and hope the stampers out there love it as much as I do :)

Sugar Nellie Rubber Stamp Illustrations

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COMMENTS:

  1. January 23rd, 2008 at 9:19 am

    I can not wait for these stamps to come out, I am sure I will want all 9 of them!!

    Thank you for your sneak preview.

    Best Wishes
    Caz



  2. January 23rd, 2008 at 9:28 am

    Oh how precious these are…gotta have ‘em! Can hardly wait to see the others…thanks so much for the sneaky peek.
    Hugs, Dee in Oklahoma 8^)



  3. January 23rd, 2008 at 6:24 pm

    Thanks for the sneak peek ,they are so cute,I can´t wait to see them all.
    Best regards
    Monika



  4. January 24th, 2008 at 2:18 am

    They are gorgeous and I am sure they will be very popular. What an exciting project indeed!



  5. January 24th, 2008 at 9:40 pm

    Ohhh these are sooooo darling!! I can’t wait to buy them! So glad you decided to do some stamps up, thanks for the fun sneak peek! :)



  6. January 25th, 2008 at 10:12 am

    They are the exact stamps I’ve been waiting for!!!!
    They’re gorgeous ~ thank you so much for them :)



  7. January 25th, 2008 at 10:16 am

    Thanks everyone for the great comments! I’m so happy to hear you like them :)



  8. January 27th, 2008 at 11:07 am

    I’m sooo in love with your wonderful illustrations and so I love your stamp images! And -of course- I had to order most of them today *lol*
    And now I hardly can wait getting them and stamping with them :-)
    love & smiles from Germany
    Sylvia



  9. January 29th, 2008 at 6:57 pm

    Yipee!!! I just ordered some the other day from Funky Kits…I can’t wait to get them in!

    I love your whimsical free designs!
    Kerry



  10. February 6th, 2008 at 11:02 am

    absolutely beautiful!!!! love your designs :)



  11. May 22nd, 2008 at 1:12 pm

    these are so adorable..! :)) Will they ever be avail to purchase in Canada..? I would buy them all if that were the case :)) (wink)



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