Stamping, Stitching, and Scrapbooking

[Debbie Hamann]

Lots of us have other hobbies in addition to just stamping. I am into
stitching, latch hook, weaving, scrapbooking, and computer graphics.
Have any of you blended your other interests with stamping or does it
stand out alone?
I use stamping in scrapbooking and stitching along with fabric
stamping.
Have fun with this topic

Happy Stamping, Stitching, Scrapping or whatever else you may do....
debbie

[Dddavisborg]

I am a general crafter. My favorite is stamping but I also do flower
arragements, wire crafting, painting, etc... You name it and I will try it.

[Pat Kight]

Debbie Hamann wrote:
> Lots of us have other hobbies in addition to just stamping. I am into
> stitching, latch hook, weaving, scrapbooking, and computer graphics.
> Have any of you blended your other interests with stamping or does it
> stand out alone?
> I use stamping in scrapbooking and stitching along with fabric
> stamping.

Good question. I've always been a paper artist, and stamps are just one
of many media I use to decorate paper. But stamping opened my work up to
book arts, papier mache, collage and mixed-media assemblage, etc.

I make masks, have painted a floor cloth or two, and occasional
theatrical props. My real passion is theater, and I've been involved
with our community theater for nearly 20 years as an actress, director,
set designer and board member.

And my sweetie recently bought me a Dremel, so now I'm playing around
with woodworking. I'm think carved, painted and stamped boxes - what do
you guys think?

--Pat Kight
kig...@peak.org

[Nancy Handy]

Debbie Hamann <rios...@brightdsl.net> wrote:

> Have any of you blended your other interests with stamping or does it
> stand out alone?

I collect vintage fountain pens - the ones from around 1915 - 1939 with
the flexible nibs that our great grandparents used to use. They write
like buttah!

I also have had a lifelong love of art - oil painting, watercolors,
pastels, watersoluble colored pencils, oil pastels, charcoal, pen and
ink, sketching, etc.
Until recently I was an assistant art director at an art school.

I stamp my card, have fun with watercolors and other ways of adding
color. Then I write my message out with a vintage fountain pen unless
I'm in a glitter gel pen mood.

BUT I still can't help feeling guilty stamping because I'm using someone
else's artwork. Yet it's so much fun that I'll just have to get over it
and stop taking it so seriously and enjoy it for the enjoyable hobby
that it is.

Nancy

[Pat Kight]

Nancy Handy wrote:

> BUT I still can't help feeling guilty stamping because I'm using someone
> else's artwork. Yet it's so much fun that I'll just have to get over it
> and stop taking it so seriously and enjoy it for the enjoyable hobby
> that it is.

If it's any help, lots of fine artists use (and transform) "other
people's work" - Andy Warhol, Joseph Cornell and Nick Bantock come to mind.

If it really bugs you, though, consider eraser carving - it's a great
way to incorporate your own designs into rubber stamping, and all you
need to get started are a vinyl eraser and an ExActo knife ...

--Pat Kight
kig...@peak.org