I love the apples and the swan the most. The chirstmas stamps looks great too. Planing to do some greeting card for Chirstmas soon.
Below is the erraser that I use. You should be able to find them at some stationary stores at Malaysia.
a) & b): I love to use these both erraser to carve. They have the same texture and they are medium hard and easy to carve.
c): I never use before. So no comment on this. I guess should be the same as b)
d): Similar texture compare to a) & b), just a bit harder,with a larger width of erraser for larger width of stamps.
e): Medium hard erraser
f): Soft erraser. Easy to cut but too soft, sometimes will miss cut those fine lines.
To me: softer erraser is more easy to carve. Because you don't need too much enegry to carve them. It is not good in carving for fine lines. I prefer medium hard erraser. I don't use those branded erraser. I find cheap errasers are so suitable for stamp carving. I recomend to try on a) or b) erraser for beginners.
8 comments:
All these stamp was carve by yourself?
Yup~~
They're awesome! What do you mean by trace? Do you mean drawing the designs from somewhere?
I love the tree/leaf ones and the reindeer with a border. ^_^ For the pictures that have two colours, I suppose you coloured the inside after stamping? ^^;
One more question -- what kind of knife and stamp ink do you use? :)
thanks for the tips!
i love your carved stamps very much, especially the duckling, so cute! i must practice some more!
aneesah: yeah, trace from books or magazine. For the 2 colors, its just 2ns stamping over the 1st stamping. I didn't color it.
You can refer to my older post for stamping tool at http://ciyoucolorscity.blogspot.com/2008/08/russian-dolls.html
aileen: practice more and looking forward for your new carving soon.
雪鹿真的可爱极了。。我也要偷师。。嗬嗬。。
弱弱的问:我可以和你交换圣诞卡吗??(羞)
ee: should be no problem. Made one for me and we can swap
i found this really helpful. wanted to learn how to carve after seeing ur stamps. they are all very nice especially the reindeer..cute & adorable. thx ciyou for the inspiration... :p
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