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.

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