Rubber Stamps

rubber stamp for the Chinese Dragon year

Love your stamp "Oh Boy"!! and Lazy bunny's Dragon - it's my year!!! Been waiting forever for the Year of the Dragon to come around again - the parade in San Francisco should be super special this year!!

Lazybunny, your dragon looks great!

Oh Boy, is that a rubber/eraser you used for that stamp? That black cutting tool is just lovely.

I'm with Angie- Print! Print! (ps Angie, did you make that gorgeous square cat print on your first cat art to me? And how?)

And Bear, how's your carving going? Any fingers left??

Impressions in progress

Final image

Koh-I-Noor  no 127 N pen holder with Speedball Linoleum Cutter tips.

Orange Speedball Linoleum Cutter with spare tips in handle

I really like using Staedtler Mars Plastic Grand erasers. I will often carve both sides but Staedtler made a change putting their raised logo on one side. I remove the printed logo with an alcohol based cleaner before carving.

I love the rubber stamp of the rubber stamp!  Good work Oh Boy.

Dick Blick E-Z-Cut Printing Blocks are good and cheap but you need to be sure there are no defects in the surface before you carve.

Oh Boy! Great info, thanks very much. Love the stamp in progress piece for Dillon, and the orange tool, hope that's not a rare vintage one!

Go on Bear, you know you want to!!! It's all art!

The orange Speedball Linoleum Cutter is from 1978. The end cap is not threaded like the red, green, yellow or blue ones sold at www.dickblick.com. They also sell the cutters separately, wood handles and the Koh-I-Noor  no 127 N pen holders.

Oh Boy, Your impressions in progress look great. I love the variety of them all together. What are you printing with? Just typical rubber stamping inkpads, or something else?

The impressions in progress were inked with standard ink pads, nothing special. The ones with multiple colors and over stamping were done with lightest colors first.

Great eraser stamps, Oh Boy!

I use the small Staedler eraser...I have a whole little cardboard box of them.

And now i have carved most on both sides, and starting to carve the narrow sides (like the one with tree branches) and a few are even carved on the tiny ends.

This eraser is a good soft texture and easy to carve and I use stamp pads for inking.

Carved this one today. ^_^

It's always so much fun to see other people's carved stamps.  Oh Boy - that rubber stamp image is really cool. :D  Mei mei, your dragon stamp is awesome - and I also love the way you stylized the character for dragon to fit your art!  I need to do something like that with the character for rabbit (I'm working on the documentation for the rabbit year show now. ;) )  Daniel, carving is so much fun and such an interesting way of looking at an image.  Like everyone has already said, it's addictive!  Last time I counted, I've carved over 2500!  (Though I did start quite a long time ago - late 70's!)

OH!  And Katerina, I love that you are carving all of the sides of the erasers!  Not to mention that you make so many word stamps.  Really cool. :D  I have seen many of them on your mail art and enjoyed them then, as well.  

One of my first stamps! I used both sides of the rubberstamp, one for colouring and one for carving the fox.

strong!

Carina Granlund that is an awesome carving.

Nice one Carina....we must've been chopping at the same time!

This one is called Vincent.

That's a really poetic (or heavy?) piece of art history! I like...

Carving... on Adigraf-green rubber...

Oh, I love the one on the left, H! 

What a neat, sweet, beautiful gift in simple packaging. I favourite this!!

i made a new one....
Custom for Zombies and Toys

And the ATC i made with it!!!

Hi Stempelen group, please lend me your eyes and advice. I'm making a version of a stamp to point to the address on an envelope using Elvis doing the Jailhouse Rock, but it's looking a bit too iconic...Would it be better to chop off all the bits radiating from him? And just have the figure? I don't like it how it is....any advice would be great! 

Loose the radiation, that way when you stamp, you can let him dance......

Very diplomatic Ruud!  I think you're right, thank you.

i say loose every other radiation...

Thanks guys, I might play with some white out and see what looks good before I start chopping!

Well...it would be less work for me to keep them there!! Maybe I'll just use it as it is for now! Good to hear from you Bear!!!!!

my latest choppings!

Red socks optional.

Thanks girls, I think the scream will come in handy for mail artworks! Especially with zombies! ;)

Hi new here. Does this group allow stamps already made? i don't carve my own.

Thanks Susan

Susan, ready made or hand carved are both welcomed here.

made this cat stamp today (original image was from a warhol watercolor) wondering if i should write anything on the cat's rear?