Fibermania

Easy, Crafty and Colorful

I have been saving this project for a day when I had nothing to blog. This is the day. I painted and stamped these boxes in preblogging days and have been using them non-stop ever since. The boxes themselves came from Michael's and the paint is just cheapo craft paint. However
what makes them so fun are the stamps I got from Sherrill Kahn's website, Impressmenow.
Her books are some of my very faves and her stamps come unmounted so that you can just cut them apart and use immediately.

I painted the boxes with foam brushes, in all the colors of the rainbow. The ink used for the stamping is the same paint, either brushed onto the stamp with the foam brush (which works the best) or squirted onto a piece of smooth sponge and used like a stamp pad.

It hardly matters if you are neat with the underpainting, as the stamping will make the final result look 'artistic' if you know my meaning. I also used some nicer gold metallic paint, on a piece of sponge to highlight areas.

Boxes like these are great for small things that have no other home. Old love letters, bills you are avoiding, yarn leftovers, and single socks looking for a mate, etc.

We spent the whole dang day yesterday in bed snoozing and watching HGTV. At our age, one day of work, and one day of recuperation seems to be our habit.