What's in My Art Journal?

Hello everyone,

My journal consist of many unfinished pages.  Pages that I ran out of steam on, scribbled on, or threw some paint on. This journal page was a page that I tested out two newly carved stamps. I was going to leave it without any color, it looked great as is. But, you know how it is, you get in the mood and well, your off.  

The figures, the pattern stamped between the figures, the circle and triangle stamps are all hand carved.  I used Tim Holtz Distress Stains and various background stamps, as well as some torn pages from a book.  The girls look alive and like they are celebrating and having fun. Do you have unfinished pages in your journal book?

Thanks for visiting.  I hope you enjoy the rest of your day.

Until the next blog...enjoy!

Carol

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As you know, I kinda like carving my own stamps.  This time around, I thought I'd try my hand at carving repeating stamps, though I had no clue on how to do it.

First I carved this lil diddy. 

 

 

As a background on a journal page, it doesn't look too bad.  The key is to try to stamp it in the right direction to make the center design.  And of course it would have been nice to have the entire thing straight along the page.

Next, I thought I'd go bigger.

 

 

I really like how this one turned out. 

I couldn't resist adding some eyes and  facial expressions in there.

They cover the tags fairly well too.

I think it's great that this stamp makes a center design and another one where the little point meets. 

 

Now that I sorta get the idea of how these are created I'm definitely going to try more.  Have you tried carving stamps yet? 

 

Thanks for stopping by, don't forget to subscribe.  Until the next blog, enjoy!

 

Carol