I had samples of some lovely paper. I had finished stamps. I had water colors. I had access to a laminator. \u00a0My lovely patrons have enabled me to buy a “bone” knife (for nice edges and scoring and creasing) and a corner trimmer. And all the stamp-making supplies.<\/p>\n
And that <\/em>meant I made bookmarks for the Mystery Mail tier. O happiness!<\/p>\n I do feel a little sad that I covered the lovely paper but it wouldn’t last very well otherwise; it’s lovely and soft and interesting to paint and stamp on, but would likely bend and tatter a bit too soon.<\/p>\n What do you think?<\/p>\n I promise, I’ll be getting back to dragons soon. Probably sooner than you see this post, since I’m scheduling it out a bit so as not to overwhelm you with all my natter!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I had samples of some lovely paper. I had finished stamps. I had water colors. I had access to a laminator. \u00a0My lovely patrons have enabled me to buy a “bone” knife (for nice edges and scoring and creasing) and a corner trimmer. And all the stamp-making supplies. And that… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phmexg-fN","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":954,"url":"https:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wd\/mystery-mail-for-april-and-may-2019-stamp-stamps\/","url_meta":{"origin":979,"position":0},"title":"Mystery Mail for April and May 2019 \/\/ stamp stamps","author":"Kir","date":"23 May 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Mystery mail reward for April and May: Actual postage stamps of stamps!\u00a0Whether those patrons will actually use them, I don't know. It\u2019s up to them! But I bought two sheets so I could use them too. \u00a0And used some when I mailed the reward.Would you use them?","rel":"","context":"In "Art"","block_context":{"text":"Art","link":"https:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wd\/category\/art\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2004,"url":"https:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wd\/sketchbook-ideas-for-cat-stamps\/","url_meta":{"origin":979,"position":1},"title":"Sketchbook \/\/ ideas for cat stamps","author":"Kir","date":"14 November 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"In the event I catch up on some things and start to do another series of rubber stamps, I scrawled a little page of ideas. Some might work. Some not so much. (Mostly it was important to scrawl ideas, and keep doing that.)This is what I mean by making a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Art"","block_context":{"text":"Art","link":"https:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wd\/category\/art\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.metasilk.com\/wpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/16f3f6ffdd3f2488ecf645afbc09563f.jpeg?fit=480%2C640&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":959,"url":"https:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wd\/continuing-with-mermay-stamps\/","url_meta":{"origin":979,"position":2},"title":"Continuing with MerMay stamps","author":"Kir","date":"31 May 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"I showed you the sketches for these stamps a week or two ago. Well, I kept going with them! Here's the final result showing all four\u2014what's your favorite?\u00a0I stamped three sets (each with one mermaid) and listed them in my Etsy shop. That's all I have blank cards for right\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Art"","block_context":{"text":"Art","link":"https:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wd\/category\/art\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.metasilk.com\/wpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/0a5463d379f5260dbe94d5cb794aaa55.jpg?fit=820%2C820&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.metasilk.com\/wpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/0a5463d379f5260dbe94d5cb794aaa55.jpg?fit=820%2C820&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.metasilk.com\/wpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/0a5463d379f5260dbe94d5cb794aaa55.jpg?fit=820%2C820&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.metasilk.com\/wpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/0a5463d379f5260dbe94d5cb794aaa55.jpg?fit=820%2C820&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":578,"url":"https:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wd\/dragon-charms\/","url_meta":{"origin":979,"position":3},"title":"Dragon charms","author":"Kir","date":"18 June 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Among other projects, I have been making charms for zipper pulls or bookmarks or pendants... 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What would you do with charms if you had them? These are made using white inkjet-ready shrink film. They are double sided! (Guess I need to work on video skills to show you that). 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