Styna, Munchkin and Bones!

Styna, Munchkin and Bones!
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Thursday 7 July 2011

Guest Post - Rubber Stamp Carving, Part Two


... and, in conclusion: part two of Krystyna's rubber stamp carving post (part one lives here).



So, first off you'll need some materials, I have here a Rubber (just a standard eraser from the shops, this one came from Wilcos I think), a Pencil, a Cuticle Tool (as above) and an ink pad or marker pen.




Next, I draw around the rubber so I know how much space I have to play with. This time I decided to use the largest side. So in my sketchy little box I draw what I want to stamp. As I've been reading a lot of Potter themed things lately this little doodle seemed appropriate.



Then I press the rubber against the image so it transfers across, not always terrifically clear, but we can go over the lines with our pencil to make the image clearer and easier to work with. In this case I think I altered the image a little bit in the transfer but it still looks good.





Now we go to work with our cuticle tool, it's fairly easy going, just try and make the longest runs you can to keep your lines nice and clean. Just apply light pressure and let the tool do the work, remember, you can always take away but you can't really stick rubber back on if you take too much.


We're getting there, nearly done now really. So lets colour our stamp in with the marker or ink pad.






Looks good, so lets do our first stamp!




So we can see here where I need to take off a bit more rubber. Some at the top and a little at the sides. Re-ink and re-stamp and see what we've got.





And there we have it, one stamp, one rather pretty stamp if I do say so myself.

Northern Craftoholic signing out.

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