All bottled up

Last week I was in a craft store that was selling rubber stamps at 40% off, a discount I couldn't walk by. I found a fairly largish stamp of a jar, a simple outlined shape and was thinking of all the ways I could use it. I'm not a rubber stamp artist, I rarely use such stamps, but I'm always looking for ideas I can use in therapy groups, especially with teenagers.

I've come up with two ideas so far. One is to line up jars on a shelf and, given this Thanksgiving season, draw in all the situations and people and things we are thankful for, a veritable pantry of thankfulness. The second idea was the unbottling of too many diverse emotions, letting them spill out in a trickle or a gush, but out in the open either way. If a client offered me this image I would regard it as a gold mine of material to consider -- what's being held in and who is the helper removing the lid? I used basic techniques of masking to separate the two images and drew in the fingers. I would have drawn in more of the hand, but I'm right-handed and it took my right hand to both remove the lid and to draw, so I gave up quickly!

Now that I've presented the image to myself, I can begin to journal the responses. And come up with a third and fourth way to use my new stamp!