I love printing, especially printing my own designs, and some methods are more accessible than others. This week I made a hand-carved stamp using a plastic eraser, following
Chantal Vincent's excellent, easy-to-follow
tutorial.
I've carved stamps with a craft knife before, but this time I used a Speedball carving tool. With the Speedball I was able to get a lot of fine details in my flower. It's an Australian native
Banksia spinulosa seed pod, or "Banksia man". I'll use it to make a card for my mother-in-law, who's a Banksia nut (or should that be a gumnut?).
Thanks for a great tutorial,
Chantal! For more creative spaces, visit host Kirsty
here.
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great stamp. i did this a couple of weeks ago and its very addictive
tanya
something i would love to try. yours is beautiful
makes me wanna give it a try - this is great!
Beautiful. You've inspired me.
Carmel
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Wow that looks fantastic! what a great idea x
Great idea. I like the idea of creating your own stamp instead of having to look for one to suit!
Beautiful stamp!
It's gorgeous and sounds like a lot of fun too !
Love it! I'm sure your MIL will think it's great too. I agree, the carving tool makes it lots easier to manage the finer details.
love tha banksia - it looks brilliant! Watch out snugglepot and cuddlepie!
Oh!! Another great post with a link - thanks :-) Love the stamp looks great :-)
What a gorgeous idea! Have some lino ready and waiting...that banksia is very inspiring. Bravo to you :)
Now this is something I should give a try. Thanks for the tip!
thanks for the link (will pop over and have a look). I've always wanted to make my own stamps. I have made some reasonably 'okay' potato stamps with my kiddos before,which is fun but not very permanent. xxx
The stamp looks great! I tried this using a big piece of rubber for my christmas cards last year and it didn't turn out that great. I have some erasers I plan to carve but I didn't notice when I bought them they have little bumps all over them. Blah.
Thanks for your comments on my post about feeding Zoe. It was nice to know that I wasn't alone. Everything is going much better now and she is putting on weight, although we are still comp feeding.
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