I made you this, but then I eated it

[phosfate]

More notebook pages. Click for bigger.




The toy monkey is Clancy the Great, one of my favorite childhood toys. He still lives in the garage. I need to restore him.


There's a sale on Buttermans! Icon is...um...oh fuck. Joan's? Swanky's?
ETA: it's swankyfunk's.


Science!


Moar science!


Hedgehog love. I can't remember whose icon it is, because, stupid. Thwack me if it's yours.

Comments

[iamstillthemoon.livejournal.com]

Oh wow! That's really neat! How do you do stuff like that?

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

These are rubber stamps in different ink colors, combined with some rub-on transfers (the really snarly swirls, CUDDLY, etc.), Intarbutt printouts, and touch-ups with brush and gel pens, colored pencil, etc.

I can't find any basic online stamp overview, but this is kind of keen:
http://pingmag.jp/2007/06/21/hassaku-rubber-stamp/ Your library will probably have some stamp instruction books that know way more stuff than I do. Or flip through an issue of Rubberstampmadness at your bookstore.

Theoretically I'm going to try to carve a Sandford Police badge over Christmas. D:

[iamstillthemoon.livejournal.com]

Outta wood or something else?

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

You can carve them out of erasers (those white ones work the best), or you can get special rubbery carving blocks from an art supply store. Which actually work out much cheaper than the erasers -- the ones I got yesterday will turn out anything up to a dozen stamps (depending on size) for around four bucks. When you're done, you can use them as-is, or you can mount them on wood, or add cling-mount foam and use them with those acrylic blocks.

How to:
http://www.atlasquest.com/tutorials/carving/index.html
This guy's big on the fancy carving knives, but I just use a #2 X-Acto.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

http://www.ruthannzaroff.com/carving/index.htm

This one's good, too.