Category: Crafts

Dave’s Carving Page discusses reduction printing, Artist Trading Cards, and Carving Media comparison.

Yesterday evening, I did something I had been planning for quite a while: to change the height of my stamping table so I could work there while standing. My stamping table, which is a panel sitting on two height adjustable trestles, was purchased at Ikea almost two decades ago, and has served many functions over the year.

I’ve set the table at 36.5 inches, which is close to the 36 inch high counters in our kitchen. This is a comfortable working height for me. I spend too much time sitting at my computer, and wanted to be able to stand as a change when I work at my stamping table. At this height, the table allows me to store some stuff under it and free up floor space in my office/stamping room.

Members of my family may recognize the small chest of drawers, which served as my sister’s nightstand several decades ago. I am not sure where it came from (one of Grandmommy’s acquisitions) but it has certainly been useful over the years.

Enchanted Ink continues to provide unmounted plates with a variety of fantasy oriented images, as well as those suitable for use in collages.

The Gallery Door has a variety of galleries with rubber stamped art, various types of altered art, and artist journal pages.

The rubber stamp club to which I belong met at Biaggi’s last night. In addition to great food (I had the risotto special) and fellowship, we had a handcrafted ornament exchange. Here they are.

The ornament in the very back was made using a toddler’s shoe. Someone else made an ice cream cone using a real cone. Altogether, I was impressed by the offerings.

Unfortunately, I didn’t participate because I couldn’t come up with any ideas that I liked. I made several starts, but they didn’t work out.

Craft recipes to make your own – stamp pads, art paper, envelopes, glue, rubber stamp cleaner, embossing powder, embossing fluid, wax seals, and more.

Our Vintage Shoppe has plates of unmounted rubber stamps.

This is a scan of the recipe card I mentioned yesterday, per “Anita’s”:http://anitarowland.com/ request. The rooster and sun were carved by me from clip art. The mesh is from Judi-Kins. Several of us in the swap folded a sheet of cardstock to make our 3×5 inch cards. The top image is the outside, which in the the bottom image has been folded open. The cardstock, which looks almost black in this scan (on my monitor) is a deep green.

Karen Winters’ website includes collages, visual journaling, and carving. Her carvings are especially fabulous.

Emboldened by my success with the CD burner, I started working on getting my Epson 610 scanner to work with Linux. It now works, although I am not completely sure of which of the many things I tried succeeded. USB scanners don’t seem to have good support under Linux.

I made this faux postage card for a swap last spring featuring cards using eyelets. The base of the card is white. I added a black border with Gimp so the card would show up.