Year of the Tiger

New Year. New Inspiration. I have actually put some of these in the mail (in years past, it was all I could do to cut the year stamp and make the card). I have piles of unmailed Chinese New Year greetings. I am now getting very fast and confident about carving into the butter-like speedball rubber stamp material. The tiger is from a set that I bought back in the '70's when I was first discovering stamps. The character that is resist-stamped in the spritz of spray ink is "strong." Gung Hay Fat Choy!



Thanks to my BFF Mikki, I participated in my second private class with Angela Cartwright and under her tutelage and inspiration, created a layered collage using family photos. The transparent overlay is actually Dad's visa (postage stamps, red chop and all!) from 1936. The nest is one of Angela's vellum Stampington products - I am ecstatic at how Dad's family photo fits perfectly under the eggs, and that is Dad in the left-most egg!

An added inspiration to get back on track with this blog: I just signed up for Mary Ann Moss's "Remains of the Day" online shabby journal class via http://dispatchfromla.typepad.com/dispatch_from_la/. This is bliss. Just tell me that I don't really need to work for a living!