These are made from rubber beads I found in Middlebury, VT last summer. They are light as a feather and the two parts move when they are hanging. They will be worn on days when I need a smile:)
Started new proj: Rubber stamp. Chopped out a chunk and considered trying my red uakari monkey face logo then bagged the idea. I figure I need to start with a less complicated thing to carve.
… so I went with text only. I printed it in reverse and normally so I could have a reference of what it would look like during and after carving.
I got it traced onto the rubber block by penciling-in the logo on tracing paper and rubbing it onto the block. Then came the carving. Then came the delicious slicing. Then came the me getting carried away. Then came … I gotta start over. Ha ha. Moral: Don’t drink and carve intricate rubber blocks with razors. I’m fine but the block is quite rogered.
Pile of debris. Ha. It was fun to scrape it all off and plan a new attack on the reverse side. yay. Good night and Happy VD!!
Here’s the Cubs clingy I made on Day 06 of 29. It turned out great and sticks to the sliding-glass door like a champ. I’m going to make some reversal clingys for my pals’ cars. Go Cubs!
Today was round two of cutting a stamp for my sales tags. (Because I am impatient and my camera battery is dead you get to see why today had to be round two. Round one , below, consisted of me merrily chopping off the last “e” on the first try. Geez.)
Looks a lot rougher than it actually turns out. And this is much easier than one might expect.
1. Print your text or image in reverse. [Black and white with no gradation works best.]
2. Use rubber cement to attach print-out to stamp material, image facing up so you can easily see it. [Could use eraser or buy new from craft/art store.]
3. Slowly score around the part you want to stamp with a sharp Exacto blade.
4. Remove outline of paper template and start carefully removing excess rubber from around image.
Pie. Easy as.