I’ve been insanely busy lately, but I took some time I didn’t have to make this piece. The minute I saw it, I desperately needed to use the end of a receipt spool as a stamp. It looked like a flower center, so I doodled on some flowers, added a vintage button to one of them and made my little bird. The background and the bird use an assortment of acrylic and watercolor paints and the flowers are colored in with crayons and gel pens.

I can’t wait until I get this last big writing job done. This week, I wrap it up and work six days for people vacationing at the library. Next week, I am back to my normal schedule and can finish up some swaps. Hooray!

So, I’m thinking that the basic page was pretty blah. I may do this, instead. You get to see two versions of the technique and I get to make the pages pretty. Think I’m going to be sorry by page one hundred??

Corduroy Paint Technique

Basically, you paint on a color, let it dry, paint on a second color (or textured paint in the same color) and comb through it to form the stripes.

I’ve added some more vintage images to the blog. I can’t believe how bad they smell in person. I practically went through an entire box of tissues with all the sneezing and sniffing from the mildew. I’ll keep scanning over the next few weeks, so be sure to check back if you love these old cabinet card photos.

Oh, and before I forget again - I’ve had some teacup ideas, but they only involve the handles. I’m using one on an altered book cover as a way to open it - I’ll get the picture up sometime. Then I started thinking how neat they’d be as handles on a kitchen cupboard. I have a vintage cupboard I want to use them on, but it is in someone’s basement and I’ve got to wait a few days to get it!