Pimping my stamps...

I'm participating in another craft swap. This one is to create a diy craft kit. I hope my partner is a knitter or crocheter. (I tried one year to learn, and I found I didn't have the patience for it.) My diy craft kit is ready, but I have to check if Canada Post has flat rate stuff...*sigh*.

The stamp that I promised?
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It's a bit more expensive at $7.25 because I ruined too many slabs of carving material before getting it done. It's a piece that was requested for a friend of a friend. (I've done almost all of the Harry Potter ones now - I just need Slytherin and I'm officially a Harry Potter nerd.) Plus, the envelope and other packing supplies.

Stamps and Stamping Supplies

Also, I'm buying a pink used Nintendo DS Lite for $50 off of people on Kijji. It's not bad, and it looks like the person who bought it, bought it for their girl. It was a bundle with bratz, and a couple of really bad games - no wonder the person is giving it up.

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I love the letters. Amazing detail :bow:

The only stamp I ever did was a stamp saying "wrong!"for a friend's birthday (that and a pad of red ink; he's a teacher he uses it for correcting essays :lol: ). I did it in linocut (it took hours :mellow: ).

Why do you crop the slab to the outline of the stamp? Do you try to fit as many stamps on one block as possible or is every stamp an individual slab (and if so, why not leave it rectangular)?
 
[quote name='Veho' post='2694566' date='Mar 23 2010, 01:31 AM']I love the letters. Amazing detail :bow:

The only stamp I ever did was a stamp saying "wrong!"for a friend's birthday (that and a pad of red ink; he's a teacher he uses it for correcting essays :lol: ). I did it in linocut (it took hours :mellow: ).

Why do you crop the slab to the outline of the stamp? Do you try to fit as many stamps on one block as possible or is every stamp an individual slab (and if so, why not leave it rectangular)?[/quote]

Veho, thank you. I use thin "for big mistakes" erasers. If I can find cheaper stuff (apparently plumber's gaskets are good too), I will leave it rectangular. I like trimming it because it's easier that trimming away all the other stuff - I'm lazy that way. Linocut is evil, and I don't have the patience or the muscle tone to deal with it. Have you tried "mastercarve or speedy-carve?" My local shop sells a sheet of it for about 30 bucks - but it feels too soft to be nice to work with.
 
[quote name='astrangeone' post='2695246' date='Mar 23 2010, 04:00 PM']Have you tried "mastercarve" or "speedy-carve?"[/quote]
I've never even heard of them :shy: Haven't seen them in local craft shops, but then again I never looked for them specifically. They might have them in some corner somewhere. I'll have to check.
 

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