Sunday, April 1, 2012

APRIL SHOWERS

create a carved stamp with the theme "APRIL SHOWERS" this was my idea..... Laura from the east coast...........Happy April 1st or April fools day....I love carving stamps and love teaching it to my art students...they love it too...it is nice to see your design on paper transferred to a stamp.....here is my stamps for the 1st of April....


love speedball supplies......


drew my designs onto drawing paper the same size of the stamps....


with a pencil pressing very hard I drew the outline on the reverse side of the paper.....then used a pen to re draw the design leaving a transfer on the rubber stamp...


now to the carving...love this step...very relaxing and rewarding...


be careful...hands and fingers are always out of the way......


here is my 3 carved stamps......and one of my favorite ink pads....


carved stamps 1st impressions....


I made a page from my 3 stamps, lining them up next to each other.....


I tried using the stamps all in order rain drops, clouds, then umbrellas...


simple but.....I love it.....


I stamped the umbrellas on  a lot of different pages...old book pages, and scrap book pages....


I cut out the umbrella's and taped them down to the stamped background....


added 1 pink umbrella on a dark turquoise stamped background....


love banners and thought why not ...so I stamped scrap book papers front and back..


I  punched  some holes in the pictures....and then ran some cute pink and white bakers twine thru the holes to make a banner....

what kind of stamps would you carve????

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