Thursday, January 10, 2013

New Love for Old Friends

My dearest stamps (rubber, cling, unmounted, and clear),

I'm really sorry that you guys have been sitting in the dark dank drawer for such a long time while I have been busy playing with paper, embellishments and other paraphernalia.  I'd forgotten how much I love you guys....

So, I hope you had fun on our recent outing...

...where it was just the two of us (with our favourite embossing powder and ink buddies and just a few stickers for company).....rediscovering each other again....

I love how you blend into my journaling, making my handwriting look better than it actually is...

and how I can stamp you again and again till you run out of ink and you still make things look good...


I love it when you partner up with your good friend embossing powder to create awesome effects...



and how I can use you in an 'any old how' way to make cool backgrounds...


I love how you help me highlight my photos....

And how you make on impression on every surface you meet....

Oh my darling stamps! How I love you so!!!  You make me feel like an artist!

Till our next adventure!!

7 comments:

Julie Tucker-Wolek said...

Wowwwwwwwwww!! These are all gorgeous!!! I am in LOVE!!! WOW!

Anonymous said...

WOW incrediable!!!!

julie_elf said...

Outstanding!

curlyqmosaics said...

Such amazing talent! I love the way you create such dimension with the photos and color! Very inspiring!

Unknown said...

Now this is the way to start off a crafty new year Sharon! I love this project and it was so much fun to see those stamps put to incredible use.
FYI, Jeri Parks of My Create Classroom is on a quest to use all of her unmounted stamps this year. She created a blog Use Every Stamp 2013 to keep her on track. You might want to join along, everyone is free to set their own goal. Just sayin'!

lyndis said...

WOW. stamps are just stamps till they meet the hands of one who can use them so well!

forgetfulteacher said...

Your works are fantastic! Love the way you use cut out images from your pictures and give them a shade with pastels or whatever, looks super fabulous. Hope you don´t mind if I lend this tecnique?=)