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I was introduced to rubber stamping by the very talented Sue Bloomfield, a lady I worked with at the ANZ Bank. Apart from the obvious and worthwhile use of stamps for making greeting cards, I was very pleased with the potential for the use of rubber stamps for creating art works. Here are some examples.
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The Teapot CollectionI put this effort together for my mother's Aunt, Mrs. Isabel Clark, for a birthday present. She was at one time a keen teapot collector (having since had to throttle back on this due to storage problems.) So I thought this would be a space saving way of adding 16 more to the collection. The one reversed teapot was stamped onto baking paper then glued on upside down. |
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Quilted ShellsI got the inspiration for this project from a painting on a restaurant wall during a team lunch at work one day. In fact that painting looked nothing like this, it just gave me the idea. First I bought a framed print from a secondhand shop, and threw the print away. Then I divided up the space into 20 and cut the cards out cream card accordingly. Using a single rubber stamp and a collection of papers in earthy tones, I made up the 20 versions of 3 shells. Arranging and rearranging until I was happy, took quite some time. Then I glued them down and hid the joins with sienna coloured ribbon. I made this for a gift for someone, and having been regretting giving it away ever since. I have 25 cards cut out to make something similar for myself, but as with so many projects round my place, that's as far as I have got. |
Rubber Stamping 