Artist trading card stamp

Friends of mine were searching for a stamp for
the back of their ATC cards and had trouble
locating one.  I liked the idea so decided to make
one.  The instructions are as follows......

First trace a trading card and print name
and address in big letters (so they can be carved
out of lino) Reverse the design so it will work
as a stamp. 

Copy this onto a piece of lino and carve it with a lino cutter.

Use a small stamp pad to ink up the carved stamp.

Stamp the back of your Artist Trading Card and fill in your name and date.

coneflower buds!

Finally the coneflowers have peeked out of the soil in the
garden.  They are my favourites and it is always exciting
when they begin to grow. 

This is a portion of a linoprint of
coneflowers.  Below is the whole
linoprint.

 

woodpecker visitor

Each spring we are visited by a male woodpecker looking
for a mate.  He taps (very loudly) on the metal chase of
our chimney about 5:30 am each morning.  Our wild arm
swinging and shouts mildly amuse him but then he continues.
Luckily this year he chose a tree well behind us for his
mating calls..... hopefully his work will bring imminent success
in locating a female.

This is a section of a two colour lino print dedicated to our feathery
spring visitor.