more ventures in rubber stamping!

A few blog posts ago I shared my cupcake stamp that I had carved from a rather soft piece of linoleum. While it was nice to carve into, it was kind of crumbly. So I scoured the web for a sturdier block. I read that a certain kind of rubber eraser also works well for carving into stamps and Peaseblossomstudio also suggested it to me, so I tried it out this weekend.

Everything comes with a lesson I suppose. And when it comes to rubber stamp carving, next time I'll make sure to flip the image before I carve it!



What's pitiful is I didn't realize until I tried out the stamp that the image would stamp backwards. dummy.

But I definately plan on buying more erasers. It was fun and fast!

rubber stamps....my new interest?

Well I had myself a nice long holiday weekend. It involved crafting and a large helping of videogames. For once I managed to play and not feel guilty that I was wasting my time or I had something I needed to get done. It was so lovely.

But relaxing aside..I managed to carve myself up an ever so cute stamp from a linoleum block. [on my break from work. remember? this is the only time I have to myself] I'd been meaning to play around with linoleum for a while now [since college when I took printmaking]. But who has the time? I forgot how satisfying it is to carve away slices.



I was thinking of making some to sell. But I have to find a better material to work with. This block that I have is like butter. Nice and easy to cut into, but I'm not sure how durable it would be in the long run.


I also added some more things to the shop. My camera is still acting up, so it's been difficult. I literally have a mountain of things waiting ever so patiently to be listed.