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Woodblock Wednesday

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It’s the April Woodblock Wednesday, and I had time this afternoon to put together a card.

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I love this challenge because it encourages me to look back through the wooden stamps I chose to keep. I wonder now how many I sold or gave away, I’d be glad to have back again. This Memory Box stamp has always been a favorite. I love it’s artsy look.

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After coloring the image with Copic markers, I trimmed it down and mounted it on a piece of black cardstock and then onto the card base with some dimensional tape.

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The sentiment is also a woodblock stamp. It’s so old I can no longer read the name of the company, but it was made in Redwood City, CA.

I’m in the process of making and addressing 17 birthday and anniversary cards that need to be mailed in May, so I’m happy to have another birthday card in the stash.

Woodblock Wednesday

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I’m back with another card made with one of my loved, but often neglected, woodblock stamps. This one is from Rubbermoon. Twenty-three years ago we took our kids (then teenagers) on a three week road trip through California. I planned a few stops along the way around some stamp stores. At the time, California had a plethora of stamp stores while here in the Northeast, they were few and far between. While we were in San Francisco I went to a store that specialized in Rubbermoon stamps. I’m not sure if that was where I purchased this one, but I still have a nice selection of their wooden stamps. Last month I took a huge carton of my wooden stamps to a local charity where they resell your craft supplies to support programs for senior citizens. Several of my Rubbermoon stamps escaped the purge.

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You can see that the card is about the same size as the stamp. I chose an A4 card from Paper Source, stamped it in black and used my Polychromos pencils to color it.

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The sentiment is from an old favorite set from Papertrey Ink, “Wishes Come True.” The only embellishment was adding a touch of glitter to the stars with a Wink of Stella pen which sadly you can’t see in the photo.

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Thanks to Amy Tsuruta for the inspiration to pull out my woodblock stamps again!

 

 

Woodblock Wednesday

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While I was surfing around some card blogs, I happened on Amy Tsuruta’s blog and discovered she’s started a “Woodblock Wednesday” routine. There’s no link-up or challenge, but here’s what she wrote when she posted the first edition:

So, I decided to start a new blog feature, Woodblock Wednesday.  I have so many wood stamps that just don’t get the love that they deserve.  They double up as decor!

Some of mine function as decor as well. I have a printer’s drawer that hangs in my craft room and is filled with small wooden stamps, mostly sentiments. I also have several drawers of wooden stamps in a storage unit Tracy built for me years and years ago. I’ve donated a lot of my wooden stamps to charity, but I still have plenty to play along with the Woodblock Wednesday idea. I won’t promise to post one every Wednesday, but I am going to make an effort to pull one out more frequently. Here’s #1:

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I’ve been stamping for over 20 years, and when I first started collecting stamps, they were all wood mounted or unmounted stamps. This stamp, “Pumpkin Harvest” by Annette Watkins is one of the early stamps I purchased, and I still love it. Perfect for fall. After coloring it with Copic markers, I fussy cut around the image and mounted it on a piece of fun foam.

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After stamping the sentiment from The Greetery’s “Sentiment Suite: Birthday” (not a woodblock), I scored three lines above and below the focal point to frame it. This was a lot of fun to color, and I have a lot of fall birthdays for which I need cards. 

The current challenge at AAA Birthday is a Color Palette Challenge, using fall colors. I love the inspiration photo of the gummies.

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The challenge asks for at least two of the colors, but I think I have them all covered with this card, although my greens are bit more muted.