And the next step is...

...adding a fleur de lis or three or four!  I love fleurs de lis, or as Joe and I call them, tour de Frances ( :-) ).  I always have.  So, when I looked at my texture piece, it just seemed right to put some on there.  Here's how they look:

I took a foam tour de France stamp and used my block printing ink, in this case a copper color, to make the impressions.  I put a blob of ink on a paper plate, smoothed it out on the plate with a small spatula, and then dipped the stamp in the ink.  From there, I stamped the impression on the piece.  Here are my tools:

I plan to do this more around the edge and on the back as the rest of the piece gets painted.  

And that, dear readers, is the next step.  I have no idea where the rest of the piece is headed, but so far I think it is going very well.  Not bad for not really knowing what I am doing!

Until next time, happy days to you all!