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Beyond the cariacture of ink-stained mommies striving to personalize family albums, rubber stamps have gotten a lot more sophisticated in the past few years. Particularly compelling are the wide range of artistic and vintage images available, that make collaging much more inspiring.

There's a certain "low-art" or "no art" element to this craze (one does not need a lot of artistic talent to ink a stamp and press it to paper), which has parallels to the love victorian ladies had for scrap and scrapbooking, and the mania that 18th-century ladies had for their print rooms. Yes, it's true that using stamps (usually) means that one did not create the image integrated into the project or collage. However, let us remember that Matisse himself spent a lot of time collaging at the end of his career. One can use stamps creatively and artistically. Composition, color and found objects are all part of the creation.


Beyond the cariacture of ink-stained mommies striving to personalize family albums, rubber stamps have gotten a lot more sophisticated in the past few years. Particularly compelling are the wide range of artistic and vintage images available, that make collaging much more inspiring.

There's a certain "low-art" or "no art" element to this craze (one does not need a lot of artistic talent to ink a stamp and press it to paper), which has parallels to the love victorian ladies had for scrap and scrapbooking, and the mania that 18th-century ladies had for their print rooms. Yes, it's true that using stamps (usually) means that one did not create the image integrated into the project or collage. However, let us remember that Matisse himself spent a lot of time collaging at the end of his career. One can use stamps creatively and artistically. Composition, color and found objects are all part of the creation.

I use stamps to personalize things. Gift tags. Envelopes. Wrapping paper. Invitations. I love vintage images, and used a wonderful set of vintage mail and visa stamps to create my own passports for a murder mystery that I gave to my guests. This Parisian air mail stamp was just the type of thing I used, and the invitations wowed everyone. Aside from post marks, vintage images available in rubber stamps include edwardian ladies from photographs, antique travel images, nostalgic patterns, and postcards in their entirety. The range of images available is wide and rich.


Where can I find this?

http://www.quirksofart.com/french-post-p-3603.html