Altered Silver

When we last left off with this tale, this "Very Special" spread had been pasted and glazed and was having a severe identity crisis. Soon after, some more stuff was done to the poor thing. Nothing all that "special," so don't get excited, lol.

After an acquisition of some new rubber stamps, this spread seemed like a fine place to give them a "test run," because when you get new stamps, you've gotta play with 'em. So without much thought or effort, I stamped "scratches" around in black ink, learning that the limitations of that particular stamp would be less visible on a much smaller canvas.

Then I stamped around on it with white ink, using a "crackle" stamp. This one had a pretty cool appearance, but would need more attention than I gave it at the time in order to appear more random.

Finally, I stamped the spread all over again with the scrolled design (in bright blue ink) as I'd done previously (before I'd accidentally wiped it out). ;)

And that's where I left off and the state the spread's been in for over a year. Is it finished? The answer's still no.

Will it ever be finished?
Hm...sometimes life holds mysteries without answers!



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