Hankie blanks arrived at Casa Melly this week. I have been anxious to start printing and playing with them.

You can see a bit of a rose that has been popping up in my work in the lower left side of this painting. And the rose was just sitting there, looking pretty and asking me to print it in a multicolored stamp.

So I cut the stamp, mixed the paints and tried it out on scrap. I made slight adjustments to the colors before proceeding. I used to just start printing right on the good stuff and I have learned the hard way that using scrap is a great help.

Then I went for the gusto and printed the stamp on a cotton hankie. This rose stamp measures about 4 inches and I have to say, I love the size! It is incongruous to what you might think of as 'hankie size' and that makes it work for me.

I may do a tutorial later in the month but for now perhaps you might be inspired by this incised stamp making video.

Or perhaps you might like to purchase a back issue of Cloth, Paper, Scissors that explains the multicolored stamp making process in detail, Patricia Gaignat taught me all I know about it and she wrote an article to boot!