I recently retired a pair of shoes, and as I was tossing them I happened to get a look at the sole. I'm always on the lookout for a good background stamp, and the price was right. I grabbed a knife and cut the sole off the shoe. It became the rectangles stamp I used on this spread in gesso on the left side of the black and in black ink on the other page. I won't be discarding any more shoes in the future without checking out the soles for possibilities.
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Love your page Dawn!! What a brilliant idea for a stamp - the rectangles will be seen often I'm thinking!
What super pages!!! Thanks for sharing where you got the stamp!! I'll be checking everyones shoes now!! OOH I'll start with my little grandsons since they out grow their shoes so fast!!
Hi, I'm also a Dawn :) What a gorgeous page, and I really LOVE the idea of using a shoe imprint for texture.
Dawn - LOVE these pages! And your sole stamp is genius! Thanks for sharing your work and your clever idea with the team!!
Love what you did with your sole stencil. So creative. Now, I have to check out my shoes.
Black and white? Curli-cues? Exes and Ohs? Love this!!
Hi Dawn,
WOW! Your pages are wonderful-so much yummy detail going on. And the shoe-stamp is excellent! I'm off to rummage through the closet now . . . . ha! Thank you for the inspiration.
Cool set of pages!
What a fabulous idea to repurpose tired soles as stamps. I'll have to check out my shoe collection. Lovin' your pages. Great job!
ahhh... way cool here! love this kind of business on a page. i can never pull it off... but you definitely have the talent! cool!
Great pages - so much detail to check out. And as for the shoes thing, talk about a bargain!
Woe Dawn ! This page is awesome! Love how you went for it on the Dark Side. Your idea about the soles as stamps reminded me of a class I took with Judy Wise where she had us all pressing the soles of our shoes into that blue foam that makes reusable stamps. One girl had this gorgeous spiral on her sole that we were all coveting !;)
Awesome job, Crusader !
Oh, you are so clever! I love your new stamp!
WOW brilliant -- a shoe sole as a stamp. That just too cool! Happy creations from germany, tj
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