Playing around with stamps, oxides and crayons

When I'm in a creative mood and have no photos

to scrap and journaling to write

I like to keep the juices flowing by messing around.

I get a bunch of stamps and pull out whatever mediium 

that rocks my mojo and let'r rip.

So the leaves are a cling stamp and I used oxides.

I used a multitude of crayons and then rubbed vintage photo

distress ink over them. 

It covers a lot of sins and make things stand out.

I also traced the leaves with a graphite pencil and did a

scribble thing I saw on line only it looked way better when 

they did it. 

I'll probably fussy cut these leaves.

This flower stamp annoys me because no matter how

I stamp it just doesn't all come out.

I use a rubber mat, a brayer, and glass. 

Anyway, it looks really cool when using the oxides

by doing the tap and scrape method as

nothing is perfect.

Crayons on the stamped flowers.

I decided to not rub distress ink over these 

and I do love that method, but I can always add it.

My friend Holli is the proud owner of these stamps

and we get together and crop and swap so I

always stamp a few to take home with me, actually

I do several stamps mostly because the first

few don't come out right, but I have a stash because

if it really looks fun and cool why

not use them often.

These were done with the crayons.

As you can tell I love the crayons. 

They'll be used for journaling cards, embellishments, etc and the

bonus is they're premade. It'd be fun to build a page

around them. Just sayin...

I wish I could tell you the colors but I pull out all that I own

and after I use one I toss it on the pile and then...

well...no names of the crayons.

All was done on watercolor paper.