Stamp carving again

Have to give back my friend's stamp carving tools, so quickly made a vine with leaves - a positive and negative image.

Trialled first by stamping with black staz-on ink....thought that this would look better with paint brayered on instead of the ink pad, particularly with the large background area

and it does :-) Used a metallic paint for these - not sure how these pages will develop, but like this as a base. 
I used a stamp from my last carving efforts as a border on this art journal page.