For those of you who follow me on FaceBook, you would have seen my stamp carving exploits over the last few weeks. Recently I wanted to make a Dr Who themed card for someone, but honestly I did not have time for punch art, which is sad as I’ve seen some amazing punch art items on this theme! However I did have an Undefined stamp carving kit……..still in it’s box…………that we received whilst I was in the US last year …….opps!
Anyway moving on, I opened the box to find all of this:
Then I went onto the SU! You Tube site to remind me how to carve stamps:
I then went to Google and found some Dalek images………so many to chose from…………anyway I settled on one and then sat down to carve it…….sorry for the bad pictures, but it was late at night (isn’t that the best time for crafting?). For those of you that remember lino carving when you were younger – it’s just like that and you end up with lots of little bits of rubber confetti.
The first stamped image of it looked like this:
I decided the round gun thing was too big and some of the other bits needed cleaning up a little – the key thing to remember is once you have removed the rubber you can not put it back, so it’s best to remove it piece by piece.
The end result was a fairly rustic, but large stamp that resembled the intended image enough to be identifiable and that I teamed with MDS generated sentiments to make into cards for a few different occasions.
These cards were fun to make and I have decided that stamp carving can be highly addictive, so it’s just as well that you can purchase a separate refill kit as I have more ideas than time! I have made up some of these cards and listed them for sale on my MadeIt site with the proceeds going to the Cockburn Wetlands Centre.
Clever cookie, they are great 🙂