happiness is ... alphabet stamps!

i've become a creature i don't recognise.

the art making is at a frenzy; it's all i can think about! john regularly gets whining emails from me during the day saying, "i don't wanna work, i wanna go buy gold paint and play with my pretty paper." he makes sympathetic noises in reply. bless the boy, he's very indulgent of my new-found passion for art.

for a while now i've been making plain but colourful paper designs, like this:

 

poppy's flower garden

they were nice, and i enjoyed making them, but i had a vague feeling they wouldn't sustain my creativity for long. one day, on a whim, i bought a set of alphabet stamps and a black ink pad online.

 irresistible!

the night they arrived i stamped every thing i could get my hands on, up to and including the trousers i was wearing [accidental] and my stepdaughter's face [not accidental]. john made the mistake of suggesting we could stamp our favourite quotes on the wall, and had to restrain me when he saw the feverish gleam in my eye.

the stamp pad has transformed my art. the possibilities are endless, especially as i now have my eye on a smaller alphabet stamp set, and i've discovered coloured ink pads. [they even come in gold! *swoon*]

and of course it makes perfect sense for a writer to add words to her art.

 sassy girl [one], mixed media collage

one morning in spring, mixed media collage
[a birthday card for my nephew]