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.
All these stamp was carve by yourself?
ReplyDeleteYup~~
ReplyDeleteThey're awesome! What do you mean by trace? Do you mean drawing the designs from somewhere?
ReplyDeleteI 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!
ReplyDeletei 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.
ReplyDeleteYou 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。。
ReplyDelete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
ReplyDeletei 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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