Mini Kraft Cards - Open When

These are mini envelopes with blank folding card inserts. You can write a special note to someone, give it to them and let them open and read it at the specified time. It's really cute and unique.

I made these using kraft paper, WRMK envelope punch and alphabet rubber stamps.

My wax seal collection 2019

If there's something I never thought I'd get into, it would be wax seals. Not until I decided to try out a custom stamp. I sent my logo to be made as a stamp along with another one I designed, a simple calligraphy text. The design has a lot of others similar to it but I wanted to do my own in my handwriting.

One stamp was not cheap and I ordered two from a stamp-maker abroad, but if there's something you should know about me, I am willing to spend for something that I really want to try, just to see if I can do it. So after more than a month, my stamps arrived and hey! I was so happy to see my very own work in a wax seal!

I thought that it would be great to introduce wax seals to my small hometown who rarely use these things and bring something new to the usual invites that we see during weddings. In the years I have photographed weddings, not many couples have used them. I believe it would be due to limited or no access or having access but out of the budget. I would understand, wax seals are not cheap because they need time to make and the supplies are not cheap. But mainly, it's the time. Not a lot of people would be willing to sit and make average of 50-80 stamps for invites!

Anyway, so after a year, I have made a little collection of stamps. There are graphical designs and calligraphy ones which I designed myself. Most of them can be used in wedding invitations, thank you cards and even craft projects!

I'm so proud of this! Take a look!

{ Krafted } Wax Seal Stamps for Ina and Abed

This is a stamp I made for a wedding in Dumaguete happening this month! For this one, I started the design on pen and paper and digitized it to come up with the final design. It's a simple calligraphy style with a small heart which gives it a cute and romantic feel to it.

I sold this one as a set, so included are melting spoons and star-shaped wax beads and some tea light candles.

Sticker Themed Notebooks

I adored stickers when I was younger. I had a small collection of those along with scented stationeries and I super enjoyed trading them with friends. It was like fun currency. I don't know what is it with these pretty paper goods that just made me squeal with excitement when I saw them with lovely dainty illustrations. The problem with having a collection is they never served their actual purpose. They were kept until they got old and then we outgrew them. I wonder where I kept them.

Anyway. I recently got hold of these awfully cute sticker flakes which came in sheets like travel, summer, flowers by colors, and thought why not put them together by theme on a notebook cover? I never realized how fun it is to peel and stick these little things to other cute little things! So here they are! I'm happy with how they turned out. As perfect are these neutral-colored notebooks that have such great feel to them. They have blank cream pages that are so nice to write on!

See?

A First Look at Word Stones

An awesome thing about calligraphy is that it's so easy to make ordinary things look pretty. Like these shiny stones. You'll normally take no second look but with an inspiring word or phrase, they automatically become more special.

These aren't your ordinary stones though. I admit I didn't just pick them up from outside. As much as I wish have them for free, I had to purchase them. ;) Ordinary stones are more rough in texture so they wouldn't look as nice.

Here I'm only using black, white and neutral colored stones. And the ink, just gold and white, sometimes black. They're the perfect accessory to tiny potted plants like succulents and baby plants on desks, shelves and window sills. The stones can be simple bits of reminders or inspiration that you'll surely get a glimpse of every time you water those plants.

Plus, they make lovely instagram photos, don't you think?

{ Krafted } Handpainted Wooden Spoons

Hand-painted buri pouches

This batch of painting was somewhat a challenge in terms of color choice. These pouches were already dyed with a certain color combination when I purchased them. I had to choose another set of colors to complement the existing ones which really has to make the design pop-out.

Here I'm using acrylic paint and sealed with acrylic spray. For each bag, I decided to include a little "care" card which says how to care for the bag design which is important to make the bags last a bit longer.

It can fit a mobile phone, folded bills, coins, keys and/or lipstick.

{ Krafted } Wax Seal Stamps for Salt and Bleach

This is a wax seal stamp I designed for photographer Salt and Bleach. I'm very happy the engraving turned out well done. I was concerned that the elements were too fine that this order would have been a complete waste. But yes, here it is! This would go perfect with his packaging style!

{ Krafted } Hand-painted wood slices

Wood slices are great canvases for calligraphy or any painting project. I managed to acquire a few pieces of these from the local department store. They're made of nice and smooth type of wood and a great natural wood color. I was torn between painting over them with other colors or just directly add calligraphy. For this batch, I decided to add colors. Next time I'm planning to do sunset and galaxy scapes.

These objects are small and are best used as coasters or desk paper weights. They can serve as decorative pieces to your desk or shelf by putting them on a mini plate stand or a tiny wooden easel.

{ Krafted } Floral bookmarks

I made my floral and botanical artworks into bookmarks. I love how they look when put together!

{ Krafted } Matte Pin Badges

I'm now stocking up on items to sell and coming up with new ideas for merchandise. I'm planning to sell my items in a concept store in Cebu. Button pins are quite a nice way to showcase my designs so here they are! I'm very excited about these badges because they're matte. I usually see the glossy ones but these are really nice to look and feel.

I'm starting with designs of carefully selected Bible verses and my Philippine destination artworks.