Woodblock Wednesday: December

Needless to say, this card was completed before I left home. We arrived in Wisconsin yesterday, and with the excitement of a “second” Christmas with Caleb and Hannah, I totally forgot to get this post written. I find it interesting which woodblock stamps I chose to keep when I sold or donated a large portion of them years ago. This little stamp from The Stamp Clinic dated 1966 was one of them. I graduated from high school in 1966, and I’d never heard of rubber stamps! When I did a Google search I found several Stamp Clinic stamps featuring these tiny girls listed on eBay, but not this one. They are all marked with a date in the 1990’s. 

I think this might be the first time I’ve ever fussy cut images from a woodblock stamp, but I love how they came out. Before I cut them I had colored them all with Polychromos pencils. They’re so tiny that I thought trying to color them with any kind of marker would be a recipe for disaster. After deciding on the design of the card, I die cut the rectangular opening and added a frame from My Favorite Things A2 Rectangular Frames. On the inside I added a piece of Soft Stone cardstock from Papertrey Ink and placed the girls within the frame, adding dimensional tape to each of them, and a shadow with a gray pencil to mark their path as they carry the letters.

Knowing I’d need some thank you notes, I added a simple script thanks from AMuse Artstamps–a long time favorite. Although I didn’t take a photo of the whole inside, there is room above the frame on the inside for a handwritten message. 

So now I’m off to see what other cards have been added to the Woodblock Wednesday post for December–with thanks to Amy Tsuruta as always for hosting this event.