Stamped fabric

I made a few more foam stamps using the Magic Stamp blocks pressed onto some natural plant material that I found.   The top one is made of dried up Echinacea flowers and the one below it is made of a pine branch.   I used opaque textile paint on navy blue fabric.  These stamps are a lot of fun to make because they are your own unique design and the great thing is you can use them whenever you want on whatever surface you want.  I sometimes stamp on recycled tea bags to make greeting cards!

Piece for Stittsville Library show

For the last few years in November Out-of-the-Box has had a show at the Stittsville Library.  This year the show theme is "A Way with Words".  I made a piece using the word " Bird".  I sewed together hand painted fabric scraps and printed the white fabrics with my hand carved stamps.  The show will be hanging at the library until the end of November.  At the bottom you can see my new Cardinal stamp which I just carved.  I used a photo and carved it using Speedycarve rubber.   My piece measures 16 X 20 inches and is mounted on a painted canvas.

Here's a closer photo of my machine stitching.

New stamps

I made a few new stamps the last few months.  These are both made using the Magic Stamp foam blocks and pressing them onto a surface while the blocks are heated up. Natural shapes make wonderful stamps.  For the background fabric I often use fabric that I've coloured before using leftover textile paint.  The first stamp is made from a pattern on some packaging material.  The circles are about three inches in diameter. The second stamp is made from the brown fiddleheads left in the fall after a fern has grown in the summer. My collection of stamps is growing...