If you like to use vintage clip art in your artwork, hop on over to Ten Two Studios and download some free images. Each day between now and December 25 a new image will be revealed.
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Another thing I did in Montreal was to work on my Christmas cards. I'm never sure whether to post Christmas cards on my blog because the recipient may see theirs here ahead of time.
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Well, not really, but I've been there and back and that is the reason for my long break from blogging. I was visiting my sister Dianne, and we spent two weeks stamping and shopping. What fun!
While I was there, I prepared for my demonstration day at my Stamp Club here in Vancouver. My sister found a cool Tim Holtz technique in a 2003 Rubber Stamper magazine and together we created this sample:
This is a resist technique using manilla file folders. You simply stamp in Versamark, heat emboss using clear powder, and paint using dye re-inkers and a water pen, allowing the colours to pool together. Then you iron off the embossing leaving a faux bleach look. (The file folders have a special coating on them that makes the ink pool together.)
This time the birdies have teamed up with some Tim Holtz French Market stamps and have gone on a trip to Paris.
I love birds, and I must confess I own more than a few bird stamps. I was inspired by StampingMathilda to get them out last week and create a few Artist Trading Cards.
Here are a couple of Artist Trading cards I made on watercolour spray backgrounds. I embossed the stamped images, bleached out areas for colouring and then coloured them using H2O's and pencil crayons.
