rubber stamp carving links for margaret

[phosfate]

Sorry this took so long. These have all been checked for actual existence and usefulness. (The Fortune City site has pop up ads that hurt.) You may want to start with the white plastic erasers, because their thickness makes them easier to handle when you're beginning. Soft printing blocks are a good deal cheaper, however, and some are of a thickness comparable to that of erasers.

Eraser carving:
http://pages.map.com/rclark/tabloid_trash/howto.htm
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/4947/eraser.html
http://hotwired.lycos.com/zines/95/49/index1a.html
http://www.telp.com/art/
http://www.fortunecity.com/victorian/museum/316/
http://www.negia.net/~unity/newbie.html
http://www.stardel.com/carve.htm
http://members.aol.com/zetetics/eraser.htm

Print bibliography:
http://www.angelfire.com/ca/turtlemanfrank/carvebib.html

How to mount an unmounted stamp:
http://rubbertrouble.com/mounting.html

Comments

[nitasee.livejournal.com]

I don't know if the mention it, but there's a technique learned for rubber stamp carving. Photocopy you image, then transfer the image to the rubber by rubbing the back of the photocopy with a blender pen (or other solvent, nail polish remover works in a pinch). Now you have an image outline to carve out. Cool, uh.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

I haven't tried that yet, just 'cause my blender pen is totally clapped out.

Another thing that works - at least on the soft printing blocks, which are very slightly sticky - is to outline your photocopy in pencil and just press it on the block. That way you can draw your image the right way round and then it transfers backwards.

[nitasee.livejournal.com]

"'cause my blender pen is totally clapped out."

Those things always have an incredibly short life span.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I think I might have used it, oh, once... There's a book on making books (!) that encourages one to do entire journal pages using blender transfer. Yeah, that'll happen.

[nitasee.livejournal.com]

I think I read that book on making books too. My thought was, oh, yeah, being around a blender pen that much should really poison my brain.