Woodgrain Landscapes by Judi Kauffman for The Queen’s Ink

Woodgrain paper is always fun to use as intended - as planks of wood, but if you use your eye as if they’re attached to a zoom lens on a camera you can find some interesting little landscapes within the grain. My Artist Trading Cards incorporate 2” square scraps that look like hillsides or paths. One of them even has a knot in the woodgrain that evokes sunshine.

Using my new Mary Engelbreit stamps from RubberMoon I stamped a little girl happily running along with her ice cream cone, accompanied by woodland creatures. A bit of coloring with pencils, markers and a fine nib pen, plus some Tim Holtz stickers (phrases cut into pieces) finish the ATCs.

Options:

• Customize the little girl by changing her skin tone and hair.
• Skip the stickers and stamp, machine-generate, or hand-write a message.
• Change the ice cream to strawberry or chocolate!
• Include kittens or ducks instead of, or in addition to, the bunnies.

SUPPLIES:

• Rubber stamps by Mary Engelbreit (RubberMoon)
• Ink in dark teal or other dark color
• Markers and colored pencils of choice
• Pigma Micron pen in Black (01)
• Gelly Roll pen in White (10)
• Stickers by Tim Holtz (ideaology)