Making a printing stamp from pizza packaging.

I sometimes buy pre-made pizzas.
I think they are pretty awful and have no taste, but if the family are hungry and I'm feeling lazy...the shop is just around the corner.
Anyway.
The thought of throwing out the polystyrene packaging makes my brain shrink with horror, so I keep them in a cupboard.
The other day I wondered what could be done with them in a creative way, and I remembered seeing something on pinterest about printing with polystyrene take away food boxes.
So, out came my inner squirrel and I gathered up objects to press into my pizza base packaging.

I thought I'd try a mandala style design, so I used lids and pens, and anything that I thought would make good marks.

When I was happy enough with the final design, I rolled some acrylic paint onto the stamp.
(printing rollers are a must for this in my opinion).
I found some scrap pieces of cotton to experiment on, and pressed them onto the stamp.
This is how they turned out.
I'm not sure what I'll make with them yet, and need to play around with colours, etc.

 My sewing machine has been going full steam ahead for the past couple of weeks, and I've been furiously trying to use up all the fabric I have (and it's a lot!)
I may have wandered into many a charity shop recently, but I've not bought much from them to use for my creations.
I'm quite proud actually!

 Anyway, here are a few pieces I've made.
Most of them will be going in my ETSY shop.
I hope you like them.

After a lot of messing around with Google and all its fiddly log in things I have finally gained entry into my blog again.
Hooray!! It's only been four years!
All I have to do now is get into Flickr again so that I can update my fabulous new photos.
Well, I won't bore you (if there's anyone still listening) with what I've been doing in the past few years.. I've not been sleeping, honest.
You can catch up on my Facebook page or my favourite place at the moment..
My Instagram account.
I'm still selling on Etsy too.
I promise I'll be back....Maybe very shortly...as I have some photos to show you.