By special request, here is a quick little tutorial on the art of easy rubber stamping.
Supplies:
#2 Pencil, ball-point ink pen, linoleum cutters, paper, ink pad and rubber printing block.
1. Draw your image onto a piece of paper with #2 pencil. When you are happy with your image, go over again with pencil to make sure the lines are strong and dark. If you want to do a very simple image, you can draw directly onto the rubber printing block with a pen and skip to step 4.
2. Now transfer this image onto the rubber printing block by putting image face down onto block and rub with pencil. You will have a backwards image. This is especially important when using images with words, letters or numbers.
3. Once the image has transferred, go over penciled lines with ink pen. This will give you a good image to carve around.
4. Now start carving using the smallest cutter (size 1) and carefully go around all the lines. Make sure you have good light and a steady hand. You don’t want to loose a nose, eye or very important line. *You can cut directly over the lines if you want a reversed image.
5. Once the image lines have been carefully carved around, use a larger cutter to get rid of the excess rubber.
6. When you are done carving, gently wash off little bits and dry thouroughly. Start stamping on a practice piece of paper to see your finished image. You may need to go back and carve any missed areas.
I’ve used my new stamp for making thank you cards. I hope this was helpful to those who have not yet played with rubber stamping.
February 23rd, 2007 at 7:14 am
Oh..that was fun to “watch”! I have had stamp-making supplies for almost a year, and I haven’t gotten around to using them, mostly because I didn’t know how to get the drawing onto the stamp. That looks fairly simple! This one turned out great:>
February 23rd, 2007 at 10:39 am
Your stamps are so amazing - I must improve my drawing skills before attempting this again but you’ve encouraged me to try!
February 23rd, 2007 at 10:53 am
Ooh, thanks for the refresher on how easy it is to make rubber stamps! It’s been a long time since I broke out my linoleum cutters. Love your thank-you card, so simple and what great line you have…
How do you find the time?
February 23rd, 2007 at 2:11 pm
Thanks for the tut! I going to try it this weekend!!
February 23rd, 2007 at 8:27 pm
Wow, that turned out beautifully Regina, Thanks for the tutorial!
February 24th, 2007 at 9:06 am
I can’t wait to try this. My daughter loves stamps and this will be perfect to do with her!
thanks
February 24th, 2007 at 11:45 pm
Thanks for the tutorial. Another thing to add to the already huge list of things to try. You make it look so easy.
February 25th, 2007 at 5:05 pm
ooh, so much fun! love that little guy on the trike!!! JoAnn Fabrics has Staedtler MasterCarve on sale for only $2.99 for a big thick block. Great stuff that carves like butter. I just started carving last week and it is so much fun I don’t want to do anything else. ANYTHING.
February 26th, 2007 at 2:58 am
This weekend my daugther discovered block prints at the Museum of Glass in Tacoma. She was instantly drawn to the form, and begged to stay to do more and more and more prints. I promised her we would do more at home, since I have the tools in my huge box of craft tools (I think I lent the brayer and it is still missing-in-action). I haven’t taken a picture of the prints we made, but is on my list for “next-blog-post”. Lo and behold, I spotted this on Whip-up. Craft synchronicity? Serendipity? Age of Aquarius?
February 26th, 2007 at 3:02 am
One last thing I forgot to mention along the serendipity lines: there was a bar my husband and I frequented before we were married called “Kismet”. When we were dabbling with baby names just a few months later, kismet was on our short list, but we ultimately chose Sophie. Fate vs Wisdom. Hmmm. Still, I find it amusing that I happened upon your blog, called Creative Kismet, reading about block printing, on a night where I’m working on my blog at 1am, trying to divine a more accurate name for a what i do and what I write. I’ll be back to read more.
February 26th, 2007 at 10:34 pm
this little tutorial is fantastic- I’m desperate to try carving my own stamps now. If only I had your amazing drawing skills…
February 27th, 2007 at 12:17 am
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March 3rd, 2007 at 9:43 pm
It´s a beatiful work!!! I like it!!
Saludos desde Guatemala
October 17th, 2007 at 4:26 pm
Hi! Wonderful rubberstamps you´ve made!! Is it ok if a write about them om my site? (www.pysselmani.se) It´s a swedish craft site
/Maggish
December 9th, 2007 at 4:03 am
very interesting point of view, has never been conceived of this
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January 26th, 2008 at 9:33 am
Hi!
Thanks for the great tutorial
April 6th, 2008 at 7:26 pm
thanks for this great tutorial. any suggestions where to find rubber blocks, do you usually order them online?
i added a link to your blog from cake maker, your posts are so interesting.
xo
kittee
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May 11th, 2008 at 6:48 pm
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