Stamp on It - Blog Hop and Giveaway

USA States fabric

I have lived in several states in the USA (and also in Africa!), but I've only visited Texas. But my husband was raised in the Lone Star State and remains loyal to it as though it were a country. Wait! It was a country at one time!

 A current picture of the Alamo, thanks to my friend Linda of Buzzing and Bumbling (of Texas)

The Alamo as it appears today

For 10 years they raised their flag as a sovereign nation and if you know anything about the Alamo and the big battle that raged there, you know how fierce these Texans are to their state.

Several years ago my husband asked me to design a postcard for his friend Tom in Texas. Simple shape wishing him a happy 50th. It went through the USPS and Tom was thrilled. Yes, this has something to do with the Blog Hop today!!!

"Gig 'Em Aggies" is something they say at Texas A & M

I began collecting stamps before I had children. Then that was abandoned, but I still own my two stamp albums, but not many stamps. I gave away my collection to a rabid collector when I moved from Atlanta to Virginia. What was I thinking? (He was a happy man.)

OK, what did I create for this Stamp on It Blog Hop?

I pulled out my postcards workshop box (I used to teach this) to see if I still had the freezer paper shape of Texas. Yes, I did! I used it again with a brown hay bale print fabric to cut out the negative shape. The little brown Texas is leftover.

Freezer paper cutout of the state of Texas

Then I dug around in my stash and found the perfect cowboy boot fabric:

Aren't these awesome boots. My husband has several pairs of cowboy boots.

I used fusible webbing on the back of one boot, centered it inside the cutout of the Texas shape and what did I get?

My Texas Stamp - soon to hang over my husband's desk

Measures 7-1/4" x 7-1/4"

Black fabric with stiff interfacing. Brown hay bales fabric with fusible webbing on top of cream. Reverse appliqued in brown around the outline of Texas. The curved edges were made using my Olfa cutter with a specialty blade. And those words? Tried a variety of things and settled on printing on colored paper and then gluing them on! It works!

In the process of writing this post I remembered a small quilt I made using some USA state fabrics by Blank Quilting (in 2009). I found the picture (my daughter has this hanging in her high school classroom) and added a postage value. What do you think?

USA states fabric from 2009. This is a real quilt, reverse appliqued.

And this makes for a perfect GIVEAWAY: a fat quarter of this fabric! If my winner is an international visitor, I will send another fabric - and pay postage -  (unless you want some USA state fabric). Just leave a comment telling me what state or country you live in.

Fat quarter of USA States fabric

Mr. Random Number Generator will select a winner on Friday, July 5th at midnight.

Many, many thanks to Madame Samm of Sew We Quilt and Thearica of Pigtales and Quilts for organizing, hosting and generally keeping things in order for this Blog Hop. Three Cheers for You!!!

Go be inspired by my fellow bloggers today and see what they've come up with for their stamps.

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