Mysterious Frog

I made a little frog character - a mysterious gentleman - and stamped him upon a journal page. Is he not distinguished? Is he not gorgeous?

A red and green stamped frog made up of small individual shapes of different kinds.

I made him with the PRIXEL stamp kit, which was very kindly sent to me by the PRIXEL man maybe around a year ago. I feel now that I have this kit in my life, I should probably make use of it. I haven't stamped much up until this point, but now that we have this little fella in our midst, I'm very happy. It's a joyful world in which this frog man resides.

A frog stamp rests atop a journal, coated in red ink on its printing surface.

He's made of many colourful little parts, when it comes to the stamp, which is really a beautiful object, a temporary creature of its own. It's pretty fun to assemble your own shape with all these little rubber pieces, and now I'm thinking about how he must be disassembled, how he's only with us for a short time. How he must be washed.

A frog stamp, under a running stream of tap water.

There's a nice slow routine to making a stamp, diligently stamping it on some paper, then cleaning it off and letting it dry before, finally, returning its components to their box. A time-consuming, pleasant thing to do. 

Now the frog will be reconstituted - into who knows what. As it should be. 

2 comments:

  1. Stamp my passport with it when I come back from froggyland

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  2. yes, distinguished and gorgeous are the exact words i would use to describe him. i didn't know a stamp like that existed, now i kinda want one

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