passion
resist
hidden
orb
dream
solace
partake
I had picked up an old baking sheet at a garage sale because of it's wonderful patina and distressed surface. I had thought of using it as a substrate for a project at one point. After seeing Cat's post about stamping at "In the Light of the Moon" I thought that I would get out the steel stamp set that I got at another garage sale and make some stampings. As you can see some of the letters don't have such high definition so I experimented with sanding the surface before stamping. I'm not sure if they didn't show up because of the quality of the stamps or the fact that I was stamping against some soft wood. The reverse side had a great embossed quality that I really liked but of course the letters are backwards then. I dropped some alcohol inks on the lettering to highlight the indentations. In the end some are still not quite so readable but I kind of like the diffuse effect that makes you looks a little harder to see what it says and might not dominate the work that I use it in.
What do you think?
