The Stampopolis Post

~long awaited~ Stampopolis post ;) on 14th April (my birthday!) myself and some of Art School Disco  took part in Urbandsey, a pop up exhibition at The Vibe gallery in Bermondsey, around the theme of 'Urban'.
My contribution was a 3m x 1.5m (almost)blank canvas for visitors to contribute to and build a city. I carved around 20 rubber stamps, allowing them to be put together in near-infinite combinations to make the elements of a city.
I started off the city centre at home, as documented in the below video:

my lovely husband helped me with the videos. superstar! below is some rough sheets i used to clean off the inks..

 I was very lucky that there were (at least!) 3 fantastic photographers at the show, who got some great snaps of the city growing.

Below: 3 photos by Miles Dell, including my /stamp-station/ (read: table i found in a bin)

Below: great snaps by Mike Brown. i was amazed at how many people interacted with the art!

Below 2 photos are by KLV who also took part in the show!

 before and after shot:

and finally, a fab video of the show!

Red + Brown

Had a fun afternoon on Sunday making up some new products to sell. I wanted to make use of some stamps I carved a while ago, and decided on using some large brown gift tags I bought on ebay. After trying some colour combos/layering, I was most happy with this simple red on brown theme. I've decided to sell them in pairs of patterns.

Below: Stars and stripes, available at my etsy shop

Below: Spots and dots. Will be selling these next month at an arts fair
Below: Waves and triangles, will also be selling these at the arts fair.
Below: the reverse of each tag, in matching ink
Below: how each product is being sold. Will test out these, and will eventually like to sell large batches (once I know it's profitable to invest in a big batch of tags!)

stamps stamps stamps

did some rubber stampin' the other day and used them for a digital collages. for a secret collab with Beavory :)


and here's a snippet of the final thing!

more lovely stamps

WHAT IS THIS. IT SCARES ME. I FOUND IT IN OUR FAMILY PHOTOS. I DONT RECOGNISE HER. WAAA.
plus, nice stamps