Star/Cross Shapes from Coloured Papers

I chose the darkest blue paper and deep orange cartridge paper for this activity.

Stamp it out!

I had great fun stamping! I opted for a kite-shape from one of the original images and worked with that. I had to use concentrated acrylic ink as unfortunately my acrylic paints are in my flat in England and I'm in Northern Ireland this week! Also, I didn't have a rubber (not terribly well organised and left that in England too!) so I created a couple of stamps from layered cardboard - they work quite well I think.

It was quite difficult chosing a complementary colour-way because I don't seem to have any particular colour theme in my collection of images. In the end I chose blue/orange from one of the images and just went for it. And I made a complete mess! It was fantastic! I didn't adhere to my own health and safety guidelines, however, and have blue hands to prove it.... I've since obtained a box of gloves for any future colouring!!! The images here are just to give you an idea of what I was up to, they don't show you everything I produced (or, indeed, of the mess I made!) I dyed a range of paper types - from cartridge paper, newspaper, copier paper and tissue paper. Then I got carried away and started to dye the baby-wipes I'd been wiping my hands with! The colours on the wipes are super vibrant!