Making new stamps

I made some stamps quickly using the instructions in this years Quilting Arts Gifts Magazine. I almost followed the instructions. The magazine said to cut the thin foam into simple shapes and glue to a cardboard. I used the fun foam that had adhesive on the back and stuck the shaped to a thicker fun foam rectangular shape. What fun! The fun foam holds paint real well and I could stamp til there was no paint for s long while. I plan to make up some more. I stamped onto sketch book paper that I had first cleaned off a brayer I was finished with. Conservation!

I posted this on the Art-A-Week blog but my darling sister thought I ought to post it here. I heavily machine quilted a reject stamped piece, then rolled black paint over the whole thing, then rolled some gold paint to finish. I'll be making a book cover, I believe.


I used my own hand carved sea turtle stamp on previously monoprinted fabric. I strip pieced the borders and free motion machine quilted to complete. It's 12 - 15"



Another finished 12 - 15". I used the previously stamped cloth, added strip pieced border and machine quilted it. I apologize for the images. I wanted to get the images up. I'll retake them in better lighting some other time.