About Claire Brennan Design

headshot of a lady with pale skin, black, greying jaw length hair. She is wearing a black t shirt and is standing in front of a greed broadleaf hedge

Welcome to my corner of the web, I'm Claire and I like to illustrate things.

I use my illustrations to create photopolymer stamps and stencils for people who like to make cards, scrapbooks, journals, that sort of thing.

I load stencils to the store as I make them and at the moment I'm producing new designs nearly every other day, stamps take way longer and those, I will announce ahead of their release, via email - if you want to hear about it, sign up for our newsmail.

I commission only the highest quality clear photopolymer for my stamp deigns. The crystal clear material can be made into any shape and can hold designs of the finest detail. I provide them with a printed sheet showing what the designs are and you can peel the stamps off the carrier sheet and place them onto a clear acrylic block for stamping.

You might have seen mass produced cheap acrylic stamps for sale in some non specialist hobby shops, way back at the start of my stamping journey I bought some, they don't stamp as cleanly as polymer but a lot of people find them useful to get started. I think of photopolymer as the next step up - these are artist quality tools. This is what you want when you want to take your card making to the next level.

All of my designs are exclusive to me, I don't licence to anyone else, so you can find fresh ideas here, different to what you will see in other places. There are a lot of great specialist stamp companies around so if you have come to me, then I sincerely appreciate the visit - I hope you can bookmark my site or my blog and come back to visit now and again, I release new things frequently.

One of the other things I like to design is stencils - I make these in-house myself from top quality Mylar. At busy times it can take a few days to get all orders out as cutting stencils is a detailed job and everything is tested before it leaves me.

Some of my stencils are very detailed, some are super simple, see each product page for ideas on how to use them, I post tutorials on my blog and I also have a new Youtube channel where I will be uploading more and more videos.

Thanks for popping in, if you have any questions, or if you want to show me what you have made, please feel free to reach out - you can get hold of me fastest on instagram or fb. 

I often work in pen and ink and with other digital media. Sometimes I draw pictures, and I turn these into prints, or bookmarks or stickers - sometimes I design products to help you craft, such as stamp sets, templates or stencils. I'm also deeply interested in surface pattern design, and I'm hoping to bring some of that to life in fabric or paper products. I have a long to-do list.

I live and work in Northern Ireland and I've been in the graphics field forever. I doodled my way through school, went to art college, became a graphic designer, had a few side quests involving interiors and quilting and then I leapt completely and fully into parenthood. 

Once the smalls were all somewhat self sufficient I started a stamp company and it was amazing! I had the best customers and the best community and those folks are very dear to my heart still. It closed in 2016, but I've hibernated long enough! 

I'm reviving my creative life by exploring all my options this time round. All the business advice points to 'focus on one thing' but right now, I'm feeling like I'm having a bit of a midlife awakening, so I'm going to go right ahead and explore all the things. Hopefully I'll stumble upon some nice things that you find useful or interesting too. Let's see where we end up together!

Chat soon,

Claire