April is here!! It's time for daily blogging, lots of visitors and meeting new friends. In other words, time for the Blogging A to Z challenge hosted by Arlee Bird and his team of minions. Thousands of other bloggers from all over the world participate in this blog hop each year, and anyone may join in as long as they blog each day during the month of April, (except Sundays) the blog posts correspond to the appropriate letter for that day, and they sign up on the link list. Simple!
A few favorite things I use in my art show up in today's line-up: Stencils, Stamps and Shimmer.
I have talked about stencils here a bit, because I use them for modeling paste and glass bead gel a lot. I also use them with spray inks, and have quite a large collection of these little plastic jewels.
Stamps are another popular tool with mixed media artists, and while I used to think a stamped image must be perfect, squared, and colored exactly, I have certainly changed my tune! I no longer look for elaborate design stamps, but instead prefer stamps that either say something or give impressions rather than exact images. Here is an example of some I have been lusting for...Actually the site I had hoped to feature apparently sold out of the sets I had been eyeing, but they will probably come back again later.
I do have a smallish (comparatively speaking) collection of stamps. My favorite are the clear stamps, but the images are (supposedly) better with red rubber stamps. Those can be purchased mounted or unmounted. I am a big fan of unmounted stamps because they take up less space.
My last S word for today is shimmer. Oooh. I love shimmery goodness! In fact I have a rather large array of products that provide shimmer and sparkle in my art.
Thank you for stopping by today! I hope you enjoyed your visit!
1 comment:
Who doesn't love shimmer? It just adds the extra touch to something. I love stamps, of course and have a huge amount but must have more:) I like the wood stamps because they seem to give the image a little more clarity but I love the clear ones because it helps me not to be so crooked. Stencils-I have not used as much but want to. I have used them on my walls in my home
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