New kit: Lino Cut Letters
The new Lino printing letters kit
22nd January 2021
I know I always say that every craft is my favourite, but this one takes me right back to school! I’d never really felt comfortable in art class. I’d never thought of myself as being creative. I thought, “even my handwriting is terrible, how can I be good at art!?”. But then we had a class on lino cutting and printing. I absolutely loved it! Cutting the lino is a brilliant process, it’s also super forgiving and great for beginners as you can sketch out your design on the lino and then shape it as you cut.
The eco friendly twist
Lino printing isn’t new, it’s been used to make art since the turn of the 20th century. Linoleum itself, although it looks like plastic, actually isn’t! It’s made from things like sawdust and cork all held together with pine resin and burlap. There are modern, plastic versions out there, but we’ve gone traditional and biodegradable.
Printing ink can be made from all sorts of things but it usually contains acrylic which isn’t the best for the environment by itself and needs a plastic container. We’ve made the swap to natural earth paint that you can mix yourself. Totally not toxic and it can be packaged in paper!
The sponge that you’ll use to apply the paint to your stamp is made of wood fibres! To be honest, before researching this kit, I didn’t even know they were a thing. A super easy eco kitchen swap! You can pick them up from my friends at Peace with the Wild.
Finally, you also get lots of brown recycled paper cards to print on! The black mono print looks super cool on the brown card!
The box!
The design
You can go really complex and detailed with lino cutting, but at Craft Box Club, we prefer to start simple! This design is based around a letter and tree silhouette template. Both letters and leaves are super easy to cut and they produce an awesome effect as well. If you’re going for your own design, try to keep it simple to start with before experimenting with all the amazing effects you can get from a lino cut!
Oh and it’s A because I’m Adam but the kit contains templates for the whole alphabet!
Go Get creative
I really hope you enjoy this kit!
Not signed up yet? Just click the button below to explore beautiful eco friendly crafting. Start your creative journey here!