Stampotique Originals Blog

 JUST how many of you out there remember the Tom Thumb typewriter as children?  I do.  Matter of fact, I loved my childhood toy so much that I just purchased this little beauty off Ebay!  My first time on Ebay! It makes a great card display, don’t you think? Sure, its ‘worn’ and rusty, but so what?  I am too!  But I still work and so to does my new toy! 

The two cards shown are by two different artists. First, an accordion fold created by Josie Cirincione using Mr. Stripes, Row Faces, Moth Fab and Newt with lunchbox. She also used honeycomb background, Bla Bla Bla, and individual letters from Jill Penney’s Alphabitties.  Josie embossed the images, cutting out as necessary and colored in with watercolor pencils.

The second card was developed by Janet Klein using Rocky, whom she color penciled.  Using some scrapbook paper for the background she then “cut, free-form” some barren trees from black cardstock.  Now, there is NO way I could cut such great trees, but then Janet is an artist and what more can I say?  (Except that I love what she did!)

I think the cards look great along with Mr. Tom Thumb, don’t you?

Ciao, ciao…

Here’s a fun card created by Olivia Thomas. Olivia simply covered a piece of cardboard with aluminum foil and applied some various colors of Stazon ink in smudges around the surface. She then took a dull writing instrument and wrote a little poem on the aluminum foil, highlighting the writing with Stazon ink. She cut out the words WHERE’S THE CAKE, along with some other collage pieces and applied them to the surface. She stamped our image, MARCI and colored her in with Prismacolor colored pencils, while also applying a funky birthday hat to Marci’s beautiful hairdo! Fun pieces of art don’t have to be complicated and that is one of the many things I have learned from Olivia, who is a working artist. She uses ’stuff’ that she has on hand and what she comes up with is outstanding! Many times I think we feel like we have to buy, buy, buy before being able to create something. She cut out the birthday hat instead of purchasing a sticker. Her’s has alot of character! So I don’t know folks, seems to me we should each and every one of us look through the stacks we have in our craft rooms. I’m sure there is a treasure trove right under our finger tips! Hey! and just think! We don’t have to DRIVE anywhere and can save time and more energy to use for our art! (smile) Sounds good to me, especially here in the southwest desert that is like an oven right now. I prefer to stay at home in my ‘man cave’. Until next time…….

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Here Here is a fantastic idea for Christmas!  ” De Tree Girl” by Janet Klein, stamped and hand colored with chalks and colored pencil, mounted and placed in a lovely ‘gilded’ frame.  Janet gave this to me a few years ago and I cherish it.  De Girl used to hang year round in my shop and received so many compliments from visiting customers.  Photography does not do it the justice it deserves.  Janet is great with color and ahhhhhhhh…yep, she’s great with a drawing pen too!  So start on your Christmas gifts now and beat the rush!   You can find the stamp in the ‘rubber stamp’ portion of this website.                                  Continue Reading »