The fish stamp I've used here was the last stamp left in my
Empty Box Project box (although there are some stamps I've used that I haven't blogged yet).
To be honest, I nearly cheated and just put the stamp back in my ordinary stamp storage. It's a nice stamp and I felt sure I would find a use for it eventually...but hold on - that was exactly why I set myself the challenge - I've had it for years and never used it!
I found a scrap of watercolour card on my desk - I'd put it through my die-cutting machine earlier to try out an embossing folder and thought the pattern might work as seaweed. I stamped the fish in Versamark ( as I couldn't really see where I was stamping, it's a bit more random than expected) and embossed in white pearl. Then I watercoloured it in Distress Inks - it wasn't really working until I used the darker Chipped Sapphire colour, then the fishes popped out.
In the end, I quite liked the effect - it reminds me of batik.
On New Year's Day 2015 I blogged about my big box of unused stamps. I have used many of them, binned some of them (for failure to stamp well enough, mostly) and filled a bag for my colleague's little girl...and now, almost a year later, my box is empty!
I'd like to enter:
Stamp Ink Paper thanks
Shopping Our Stash My precious
Less is More not sure if it's CAS enough , but hope so, as I feel the batik effect fits the 'homespun ' theme.
That's Crafty anything goes
