Showing posts with label pegasus. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pegasus. Show all posts

Sunday, January 22, 2012

How to transfer pictures for stamp carving...



I made a stamp out of one of my favorite silhouettes! Just the tree silhouette... (have a look here). I mean... you need a tree silhouette stamp, don't you? I needed one! For sure... ^^

And now for a little trick I just recently discovered (although it is one of these tricks you think: That's too easy, why didn't I used this already for years?).

Normally one has to be careful with inkjet prints because they are not waterproof. 

Just think about it... not waterproof...

All you have to do is to dampen your rubber / carving stamp plate with some water... and put an inkjet print of your image on top. Press and rubb a little bit...

Et voliĆ !


And yes, once dried, it is relative resistant... but even with the wet surface it is quite a stable transfer :) Now all you have to do is to carve along the lines!





The next silhouette I transferred to the stamp was my little spider silhouette... (spider shadow stencil)

I added a little cross to create a cross spider (garden spider, in german "Kreuzspinne"). 



And this way I also created the pegasus stamp with a image from Karen @graphicsfairy. I already showed you one, but I also made one for myself... I decided I couldn't do without one anymore...





Monday, January 16, 2012

Lost ones... new ones...!



Some time ago I had a give away. I made a lot of tiny and bigger stamps (have a look here *sniff*) and send them over the ocean. Sadly as much as I love snail mail... sometimes snail mail and I, we don't go too well together. The stamps were lost somehow, somewhere on their way. Strange how much it hurts! 

But also there was one person waiting for the stamps she won... which never came. Also a really bad feeling...!

Therefor I carved some new stamps and send them on their way. Hopefully they'll arrive this time!


The tiny ones: Some numbers, tiny ornaments (look great if you make patterns with them!), a book, a tree... and time... everyone needs time!


The silhouettes for the swallow, the owl and the pegasus I got from Karen's graphics fairy :)




As you may see (the numbers are cm), it is not the smallest stamp :)


I changed the owl a little bit. I gave her some white "ornaments" ^^