Altered Book Pages

Altered Somerset Studio art journal calendar from 2003

Collage, handmade stamps, inkjet print cut into stamp shapes

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Handmade Stamps and Sketchbook Pages

Stamps - I drew them, pixel traced them into 'Make the cut' then cut them out of fun foam on my Zing cutter. I stuck them onto various bits of wood or strong card.

Then used them in my sketchbook. The beaver and panda didn't print too well so I will do them again sometime.

Handmade Stamps

I recently bought a cutting machine, a KNK Zing Air. One of the first things I cut was fun foam to make some stamps. The birds were images I found on the web, the rabbit and frog with snail were drawings from my sketchbook and the hare was from a photograph of some decorative architecture relief. I stuck the foam shapes to wood, cardboard and an old plastic card.

Tast 126, 127 and Handmade Stamps

Take a stitch Tuesday 

Tast 126 - Alternating up and down buttonhole stitch

Tast 127 - Beaded alternating up and down buttonhole stitch

Stitched on handmade paper which is orange do you believe? I took the photo in a different room to the one I normally use but it is the same paper as I used for the last Tast stitches I've shown.

Handmade stamps from junk.

I used a used nail buffer like the one on the left and some corrugated card as shown to make a stamp. I just used double sided sticky tape to cover all the sides with the card, then painted them with acrylic paint which was quite messy as I painted all the sides while the paint was still wet.

The grooves face a different way on each side.

It looks a lot better once I painted over it with inks.

For the second stamp I used an old key which I glued to an old thread reel.

Cat on Canvas

I painted this with acrylic paints on a canvas. The background was created with various stamps, mainly hand made and I used some found items as stamps.

First art of the year.

Last year I purchased some little wooden embellishments to use in my journals and craft work, I haven't done so yet but I was wondering if they would work as stamps.

I used double sided tape to attach them to some spongy polystyrene, applied acrylic paint with a brush and these are the results.

These are the stamps

On the lower part of the page above is a rolling stamp I made from the roll of a used tape and the left over scraps of fun foam from previous projects.

The picture also shows stamps made from corks. I used fun foam on these, the design was based on some doodles. I'm not very pleased with how these came out, I much prefer the original doodles, below, which are more detailed than the stamps. I'm not very good at cutting small on the foam.

Album and Hibernate

For the Take a Word challenge - Album

I thought  would create a stamp album. The stamps I already had and were hand created using a variety of paint techniques, collage etc [apart from the digital one the angel is holding], the album is made from a vintage postcard and the background was created from a photograph of some stonework.

For the Illustration Friday - Hibernate

I've recently painted a series of polar bear studies so I thought I would use one of those.

Watercolour Paint & fine liner

Two more Tortoises, Imperfect & Rolling Stamps [23-25]

Two more tortoise paintings for the 'shelter' project.

Below is a flower you have seen before but has been altered for the IF challenge - imperfect

[the original]

Three more hand made rolling stamps

Stamp 23 is a very large stamp made from fun foam

Stamps 24, 25 are made from textured wallpapers

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Rolling Stamps [17,19,20, 21 22] & Pen Drawings [Faces]

More rolling stamps

Rolling stamp 17 above  - cut from pipe insulation foam

Textured fabric [forgotten what it is called]

A zip

Fun foam

Curtain heading tape

and pen sketches below - practising drawing faces found in the TV magazine