Flower Stamping - White

AEDM Day 11

I'm linking up with Art Every Day Month throughout the month of November.

Creating art each day: doodling, painting, journal making, stamping, photographing, etc.

I'm a little obsessed lately with white on chocolate brown or black. So, yesterday, I pulled out the white printers ink, my roller, some brown and some black paper, and my flower stamps that I recently carved. If you missed the story behind the flower stamps you can read it here and here.

These tiny little flowers are about the size of a dime.  

By the way, I'm dreaming about fabric, wallpaper, and wall clings being made out of my little flower pattern.

Oh, and by the way, you will probably see this little flower pattern again during my May Flower Challenge. Feel free to check it out the link at the top of the screen.

Hop over to Leah's website and visit a few other creative soul's who are participating in AEDM.

Stamp Making - Flowers Inspired by Okra

AEDM Day 4

I'm linking up with Art Every Day Month throughout the month of November.

Creating art each day: doodling, painting, journal making, stamping, photographing, etc.

Some of you may remember that at the end of September I shared some art that I made using the vegetable okra as a stamp.  I love flowers and okra makes the most beautiful flower when cut used to stamp. If you missed it you can see it here.

I made stamps out of the small flowers which you can see here but I hadn't made a stamp out of the large flower. Creating a more permanent way to duplicate the shape.

First using tracing paper trace the shape that you want.

Next, place the side with the pencil marks onto the Speedball carving rubber and rub so that the pencil transfers to the carving rubber. The start to carefully carve.

I like the way it turned out. Okra on the left and my new carved flower stamp is on the right. 

Hmmm, I think I will enlarge the flower on a photocopy machine and create a larger stamp.  The above stamp is only a little larger than an American quarter so I'm thinking I need one that is a couple of inches at least. 

Hop over to Leah's website and visit a few other creative soul's who are participating in AEDM.

WOYWW - What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday

Blogtoberfest: Day 10

I'm linking up with Julia at Stamping Ground and WOYWW (What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday).

It's been awhile since I've shared my desk and today is probably not the day to share it because for the past week I have been visiting my parents so my desk is piled high and deep...but here it is.

The pile after traveling. 

The cute container with the women on it holds the stamping supplied that I took with me. The top books under that small plate are some of my purchases while I was home. A few of favorite finds (which I'll share in an upcoming post) are the ledger book from 1913, an old music book, and a farm record book with no writing in it.

This past week I stamped some more okra, check back next week to see how I embellished the stamp to make some really great flowers, I fixed a lot of jewelry for family and friends, and I created a stamp using foam with a sticky back found in the children's crafting isle. So cool!

What's on your desk?

Dare to share?

Hop over to Stamping Ground and see what a few other artists have been doing.

WOYWW - Stamp Making - Flowers

Blogtoberfest - Day 3

I'm linking up with Julia over at Stamping Ground for What's on Your Workdesk Wednesday (WOYWW).

Over the weekend I posted about creating a flower pattern using okra. If you missed it go here.

I was so inspired with the flowers that I have decided to create my own stamps using the image that was created.

I took tracing paper and and traced the smallest flower image, I like a challenge.

Lay the tracing paper on the rubber sheet (it's like an eraser but specifically made for making your own stamps and is softer so it is easier to carve) and rub so that the image comes off. If I wasn't copying an image I would have just drawn directly on the rubber to create my image.

Then you carefully carve away what you don't want to be stamped. I knew that I wanted 3 different versions of the flower. Full petal, outlined petal empty inside, and outlined petal with imprint inside. Thus, I carved 3 different versions.

The stamps create these images (below).

Flower Stamps inspired by okra                  (c) 2012 http://lorimoonstudio.blogspot.com

To work with them, because they are so small, a little easier I am going to glue to them to the end of corks.

Next up, creating even more flower stamps from the other images making larger custom flower stamps.

What have you created lately?

Hop on over to Stamping Ground and check out the other artists this week.