March 26, 2011
Saturday Stamp Making
It is bunny season, with Easter right around the corner. So I decided to have some bunny inspiration and carve a rabbit stamp using a rubber block and linoleum cutting tools (all found at hobby lobby).
It started with a drawing.
Which I then redrew onto the rubber block with a sharpie.
Then I started carving away at the negative space.
Finally I stamped the rubber block into a little ink pad and pressed it onto paper!
Voila! Instant bunny stamp! Normally I would have drawn the original image as a mirror image so that the bunny would be facing the other direction, but this was a Saturday fun project so it was no big deal!
Have a lovely Saturday,
Stacie
Eeps! How cute!
really cute! i was just telling my hubby that i want to make stamps. is there a certain section in hobby lobby with rubber blocks, etc?
Cute, cute!
i love this bunny. His name should be Frankie
Kim, the aisle that I found the blocks on are in the screen printing section close to the art canvases. Just look for the Speedball Screen printing section and all of the supplies for making carved stamps should be there!
VERY cute! I’ve been wanting to get back into linocutting, but this looks like a much easier material to carve out.
It is true, this rubber block is MUCH easier than lino. Much less chance of gouging out a piece of flesh this way (believe me I’ve endured my share of linocutting injuries!)
That looks great! I only recently found a tutorial on rubber stamp making, and seeing as my boyfriend hasn’t touched the carving kit I got for him two Christmases ago, I think I may have to claim it for my own.