Rubber stamps and Collagraphs

A few years ago when I was in NYC 

I fell in love with a rubber stamp of 
a woman wearing a vintage 
leopard print coat and little booties,

 and I bought it.

 I made 50 small cards (2.5" x 3.5") with the stamp

and gave them out.  My name and email

were printed on the backside.

 To get the background, I made an 

11"x14" collagraph plate from cardboard, 

fabric, gesso, string, lace and glue.

 Using a brayer, I randomly inked the 

collagraph plate with oil based inks.

When the plate was completely covered, 

I placed the cards on top, and pulled

the prints on a printing press. 

When the cards were dry, I used a black

archival inking pad and stamped 

the lady onto the cards.  

This summer I lost the stamp and I only have

these five cards left.  I really like using

 them as business cards and will

probably make some small prints with

my ink jet printer.