This card is for Linden Leafs "Magaly Ohika Art" LTC tracker. Linden Leaf hosts many art related trackers and I usually don't join them. I struggle to make a stamp from a painting. I've said before that my brain doesn't work that way. But after some discussion on the message boards I decided that I would try to join more of her artsy swaps.I got online and started looking for an image that I liked. There were a few that stuck out at me but this is the one I chose. I don't know the name of it but I have 2 sisters and named my card "Sisters".
I carved my stamp and decided to try a new toy. I got the Tim Holtz Stamp Platform on a cyber sale the week after Thanksgiving. When it came I played with and didn't like it. I stamped 3 hand carved stamps and every time I got a big white spot in the middle of the image. I tried re-inking the stamp and it still didn't work. Everyone on the boards was a buzz about the new product but I hated it. I decided that this card would be a real way to test it.
I cut my paper to size and attached my stamp with rubber cement. One of the issues I had with the platform is that the grid on the top is not transferred to the bottom. It would be much easier to remake a card over and over if the grid was also on the bottom. Then you were sure to get your paper in the same place every time.
Another issue I had with the stamp platform, was that the magnets moved. Maybe my stamp was to big. I ended up taping the card down with washi tape and not using the magnets at all.
The original image has writing on the girls dresses. I knew I could never carve this and I didn't want to write on all the cards. So instead, I glued down text pages. I inked up the middle part of the stamp, stamped it on the text paper, and cut out the dresses.
Using the stamp platform I stamped the image once, glued the text paper down, and stamped again. The second stamping was often not lined up with the first. I am not happy with how the cards turned out. In the synopsis area on Atlas Quest I call my card, "My ugliest stamp & card ever!" I should chosen a simpler image of just a face and not tried this one. I was so unhappy with how they turned out, I posted on the tracker to see if anyone wanted my stamp. Someone responded that they would plant it with their own and I mailed it the very next day.
