Introducing Mid Mod City new stamps

At last, it’s time for some new stamps! Illustratively, I’ve been on a mid century modern kick for a while now and I kinda thought that might translate well into a stamp set. These are the new stamps that I’ve been waiting for, literally. Finally some of them are here and I can begin showing samples. I have three new stamp set to show you, two 8 x 4 sets and a mini set

These stamps will be released for sale on my webstore at www.clairebrennandesign.com after I have shown all my samples. This set is approximately 8 by 4 inches which is a new size of set for us, and I have to say I’m liking it, sometimes I just have too much imagery for a 6 by 4, but not quite enough for 8 x 6.

These new stamps feature a cityscape drawn with a mid century feel. It’s a large card filler image and you can use it in many ways. For today’s samples I stamped and filled the image (more on that later) and then sliced it from side to side and separated to give a space for the sentiment “you’re one in a million” – I like how the idea of a city full of people, and you are one in a million.

What’s interesting about this set is that the outline cityscape is something we are all familiar with, a straightforward line drawing of city buildings. The city filler stamp is something a little different. I wanted to be able to stamp a convincing ‘fill’ in one go, without having to colour the buildings separately, so I made one stamp with different weights of halftone patterns in areas roughly corresponding to the buildings, so that you can ink the stamp up in one colour, but get a variety of tones from just one impression. I am always in a hurry, and this is a neat solution if I need one card real quick, or if I have a spare hour but I need to turn out a batch of cards.

Each of the cards below was stamped once with the city filler stamp in each colour and then once with the black line stamp over the top, and yet each image has a nice variety of tones that just elevates the image from flat colour. the halftone patterns are really reminiscent of the era.

The ‘Thanks’ is stamped in black ink and then the white word is just coloured in with a matching copic marker, the retro shape of the black ‘thanks’ panel is super simple to trim out with scissors.

I’ll be posting more samples of the new stamps here on the blog all week and tomorrow I will post a schedule for when the stamps will be released! Thanks for stopping by! Hope it tickles!