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mama makes – inspiring homemade creativity

Mama Makes is all about preserving memories and sending positivity through crafting. These stamps are perfect for cardmaking, journaling and scrapbooks. They are a perfect combination of modern, quirky and the perfect size for a multitude of projects.

Mama Makes originally started as a craft blog in 2014, while Loti was on maternity leave. On Mother’s Day 2017, Mama Makes opened as a store selling Loti’s designs as photopolymer stamps. You might have seen the stamps as part of Katie Skilton and Paula Pascual’s demos on Hochanda or maybe in Papercrafter and Die Cutting Essentials magazine!

About Loti – owner & creative designer

Loti Maria has been creative ever since she was a small girl watching Art Attack in her bedroom! This passion evolved over the years and was reignited when she was on maternity leave with her son, Charlie and found herself watching craft shopping television.

She then went onto work in craft shopping television and one day was offered something she couldn’t refuse, a chance to make her doodles, into photopolymer stamps, to sell. The rest is history!

Loti lives with her husband Esteban and son Charlie. All of the stamps are made in A grade 3mm photopolymer and are hand poured and packaged by Loti and her husband in their home. Loti designs all of the stamps digitally and takes time to think of quirky sentiments for all occasions. Some of Loti’s sentiments are words she wrote down to motivate herself through tough times and she hopes to help and inspire others by making them available as stamps.

About Chrly – creative designer

Charlie (also known as Chrly) is a doodler from England, currently living and working in Tokyo

She credits any artistic skills she has to her school days, namely her maths and science lessons.. for being so boring she doodled in all her workbooks. While she doodles in various styles she likes her own work to have a message.

Charlie’s main character is Lou. Lou is born out of wellbeing emotions and selfcare sentiments. Lou was found by Mama Makes through the modern magic of social media, and is Charlie’s first design product. Check out the LotixChrly range here.

About Laura – creative designer

Laura is the designer behind the Copolop range. Her sketchy designs are really unique and she creates perfect little characters covering a range of crafty projects you may have in mind.

Laura describes herself as ‘a silly illustrator with a yearning for music, travel and churros’.

You can find the Copolop range right here.

About Natalie – Creative Designer

Natalie is the designer behind the Mama x Natalie range and joined the Mama Makes team as a design team member in 2018 and then moved into the creative designer side of the business in April 2019..

Natalie is a paper-crafter, media-mixer and bullet-journaler who lives in Hampshire with her husband and two children.

When she’s not writing or doodling, Natalie is either arting and crafting in her shoffice or binge-watching YouTube tutorials on the sofa. Many of Natalie’s short stories and flash-fictions have been published online and in print, and her art and handmade cards can be purchased in person, or online at Stonetable Designs UK. Natalie is also a member of several design teams, and regularly writes tutorials and makes videos about card-making, planning, memory keeping and journaling.

Natalie has overcome severe depression and anxiety and now happily shares the story of how she is recovering by discovering wellness, resilience and purpose through creativity, mindfulness, prayer and planning.

You can shop Natalie’s stamps and Washi Tape right here.