Several "divas" did demos during our recent creative retreat weekend. Jane brought enough Speedball tools and materials from RandomArts for each of us to be able to carve a stamp. We started by drawing or tracing our design on vellum. Then we burnished the pencil drawing onto the stamp carving material before cutting away to produce our designs. Some of us did carvings on both sides of our stamp piece.
After we made our stamps, each of us stamped or image and signed our name in each person's journal. My favorite was the tiny detailed flowrers and leaves stamp done by my studio partner, Bob (also, my husband, for those who don't know). GREAT FUN. Try it, you'll like it.
This looks like so much fun! I am wanting to get my own "Diva retreat" scheduled asap! And what an amazing and beautiful "quilt" of stamps!!! I am definitely going to borrow that idea! (Have you all considered making jewelry from your stamps? I work with shrink plastic, and it would be very easy and fun to transfer the stamp designs to the plastic, which can then be cut into pendants and earrings! Thanks for the inspiration here : )
Posted by: Jessica Poundstone | September 19, 2009 at 11:04 AM