I find I have inadvertent themes in my stamp and die collection: background stamps with script/French/indecipherable writing, Gibson Girls, mail art and faux postage, snarky quotes, sassy women, moose, oceans and water, and on, and on. Another recurring theme: cities and skylines. Maybe it was growing up in New York City, but I find drawn images of buildings, towns, cities, city maps, row houses, etc. alluring. When I finally added cutting dies to my collection, I had to have all of the cityscape dies.
This 4th of July, I played with a few new purchases: a cityscape die from Ellen Hutson and a fireworks layering set from My Favorite Things. I dragged out my ancient embossing powders and chose a few of the best metallics. If/when I do it again, I'd use a transparency to plan out the fireworks a little better - may putting one burst below the skyline, adding a few more, and thinking about placement and balance - always a challenge for me.
I have this someday project of cutting all of my cityscape dies, and stamping all of the city stamps and looking at them side-by-side. I wonder how many of the dies in particular would look identical?
Stamps: Fireworks by My Favorite Things
Die: Big City by Ellen Hutson
Inks: Versamark and Tim Holtz Distress Oxides
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