Passion For Paper: Recollections

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Friday, March 29, 2019

Geisha Wishes

Card, 4 1/4" x 5.5"

Stamps on Deli Paper Gelli Print

Geisha by Recollections

Greeting by Biblical Impressions

I found that the best way to adhere a gelli print to a card is with a tape runner. (Even a glue stick adds a bit too much moisture.) I applied the tape runner to the card front, laid down the gelli print, burnished, and then trimmed off the excess deli paper.

If anyone has any tips I'd love to hear them!

Sunday, October 27, 2013

Japanese Artist Trading Cards

Inspired by Jill Foster, I did these artist trading cards with watercolour pencils. The pencils are great for getting in the tight corners of stamps, but allow the unexpected flow of watercolour in the larger background areas.

The geisha stamp is part of a Recollections set from Michaels. The kimono is an unmounted stamp that was given to me by a generous friend at the stamp club on Granville Island; I'm afraid I don't know who makes it.

Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Update on the Calligraphy Journal

I finished another page in my Calligraphy Journal over the weekend. I'm not 100% happy with the journal or the paper. The pages fall out of the glued pad too easily and the paper is a little bit thin so certain stamp inks bleed through. Yes, it is really just a pad of paper if I could only admit it. So, I should say that I'm working on loose pages at the moment. The advantage of this, however, is that if I find paper I like better I can switch over and bind it all together when it is finished!