Acorn Caps, Part 3 by Judi Kauffman for The Queen’s Ink

The last installment of my Acorn Caps series showed how to use them for direct stamping and for creating circles in the surface of pigment ink pads. This time I turned to my go-to favorite: Magic Stamp blocks! I made two - one with the tops of the caps facing upward, the other with the edges facing upward.

The photo above shows some experimental prints - one color or two, one of the blocks or both of them.

The photos below show full 8.5” x 11” pieces of cardstock topped with collage bits torn from other sheets, along with some envelopes as well as the experimental prints (shown again for scale).

THINGS TO DO WITH THE PRINTS

• Make cards or ATCs
• Laminate to use for the covers of journals or notepads
• Create bookmarks
• Fussy cut pieces to use for collage

OPTIONS

• Instead of a solid color, stamp onto book pages, sheet music, printed papers
• Work directly into an art journal
• Do some mark-making with colored pencils, pens, markers
• Add paint, stamping, stenciling

SUPPLIES

• Magic Stamp blocks
• Acorn caps
• Ink pads
• Cardstock and/or lightweight paper
• Glue stick