Whiskey Creek's Alphabet Solitaire Game
Published in the Limelight section of The Rubber Stamper May/June 2001
I decorated the front of the gameboard with stamps I carved, except for the texture stamping in the light areas which was a cube from Stamper's Anonymous.
The borders on the main gameboard and the card backs (the side with the lowercase letters) were decorated to match the front of the game with the same stamps. The interiors of the gameboard squares were done with the same Stamper's Anonymous stamp.
To get the two different colors on the background of the gameboard and the cards, I copied the game onto plain text paper and cut out the cards, and then I used them as masks on the gameboard. I applied the card masks with rubber cement so I could peel off the masks.
For the background, I used the direct-to-paper technique with the Foliage Green Colorbox five plate inkpad, and overprinted with Vivid Green, Printworks Citrus Green and Encore Champagne.
When I removed the card masks, I used colored pencils to decorate the animals. To finish the cards, I used Colorbox parchment and amber on the spaces and filled in the veins with Colorbox copper. The X card is a "pick your own word" card, and I used an X-ray stamp of a fish designed by my friend, Chris Burnett, co-owner of Postmodern Design.
On the fronts of the cards (the side with the animal words) I used alphabets carved by Kerrie Carbury of Turtle Press and Larry Angelo.
For the backs of the cards, I overprinted in the dye-based greens I had used for the rest of the gameboard. The appeal of this gameboard is the limited palette of greens and ambers to complement the antique designs. I gave the gameboard to the owner of Whiskey Creek.
Rabbitholes to Art in Other Lands and Locales:
The Rubberstamps Club Contest website
My winning card design, using Stamp Zia stamps in paper tole.
Another card (farther down the page) that didn't win, but was published in Somerset Studio magazine, May 2002.
A way to use Magic Mesh and Stamp Zia stamps in Direct-to-Paper decoration.
Third Coast's Art Gallery
Three pieces of mine there:
A woman in a cowl, a paper tole dragon and my rabbit tea party carving in front of Val's castle.
Third Coast's stamps are the best fantasy stamps!!
100 Proof Press's Art Gallery
A couple pieces of mine in the permanent gallery. Ann invited me to be a guest artist in 2001 for two months. It was fun to play with her stamps and come up with some fun ideas. I love 100 Proof Press for the great images and scene building stamps she sells!
Stampscapes (Click on 'Bryant, Janice' in the left window).
Several pieces of my work with Stampscapes stamps.
I was lucky enough to take a class in 1996 from Kevin Nakagawa himself!
