Finally finished one of the pieces I’ll be sending in for the SAQA booth @ Houston IQS in November (SAQA TX members).
Second piece is still in the ‘maybe it needs something…’ phase so I’m ignoring it.
You know how any cat prefers a box over a purchased cat toy? Remember when the best toys were pots and pans and your parents’ closets?
Exactly.
So, sure, I may have bought the set of stamp blocks (mostly to use with the stamps I carve from lino and other materials and for stamps to use with dye)…
The foam had been die cut, of course, but the scrap pieces weren’t pulled out. THANK GOODNESS. And Bobbie included the negative of her ‘sentiment’ stamps. Just think- use it to stamp on a resist. Ok, so I’m more excited about scrap foam than anything else…
And then I got distracted from going out to get the ingredients for sister-in-law’s cake…
Oops.
Oh, and last night I finished the edges on a 12×12:
But this is my favorite snap of it–
I think I’ve finally found what I want to put around this ancient vintage top. It will mean adding some black-on-black around the sides and bottom – which I may do in a variety of black-on-blacks just to make it look like I meant to make it too damn skinny a tad funky. This is me playing around in photoshop with some snaps from my design wall:
My plan is to do some moderately heavy thread painting over the strips of attached color (which are stitched on with a single line of stitching, then washed and dried the top to make them curl and fray a bit). I was originally going to just put the border on the sides – wide. But I only have enough to just meet the height of the ‘base’ if I go wide. And it really does need some beefing up.
Anyway- one small step for me. One giant leap for UFOs.
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