Studio Friday: Invented tool. My hand carved stamp!
Way back in February this year I was dreaming of carving my own stamp. It looked like real fun. A while after I bought myself a red little tool and a small piece of linoleum in an artist store, but it was not until after the summer I made the first stamp; a little swirl!
I made a rather thick and not to advanced design of a shape that I always draw when I doodle around, and I think it turned out really nice. This little stamp tool can be used in a lot of paper fun, like art journaling (see below) and card making.
Spread in my art journal about the colour red (and pink). Red is the colour of strawberries, roses, wine and love, right? The black letters are stamped with the fun letter set I got from Melanee last week.
Link: I wish it was me who invented this YouTube movie – it looks quite funny!
Hi Hanna, I just wanted to let you know how much I enjoy your blog!
i love love love the stamps, i am constantly making
swirls. they are my favorite. i have linoleum and
cutters, but have never tried it. my dad used to carve
linoleum blocks and we would all make christmas cards
as a family! maybe i will do that this xmas with my
kids!
I wanna carve stamps too! btw that “YouTube” thingee is so cool.
Thanks for sharing!
This is a beautiful stamp. Nice.
How cool…I’m so impressed that you carved that stamp yourself.
I love swirls and spirals too! I don’t have a tattoo but if I got one that is what I would get. :) (Don’t tell my husband! He thinks I’m a conservative housewife… Hehhehe).
xooxox
Lain
beautiful stamp “tool” you know I have made stamps but never to use for other art a good idea I think I will have to try. Beautiful.
That stamp look s great! I want to try stamp carving now… could be great for putting on stationary and fabric too.
Oh, now I want to carve a stamp. How fun!!!
Is the YouTube thing for real?
Hello Hanna!
I enjoy your blog a lot, it is really inspiring! A couple of years ago me and a friend did Christmas cards by carving in linoleum and then printing with it…… It?s real fun…….. Your little swirl is beautiful……
Keep on creating!!!!
I like your swirl stamp very much! And your journal page turned out so beautiful!
How did I miss this? The carved stamp is wonderful! I have a thing for swirls myself–they show up in my art all the time.
Hi Hana,
Yours is the first blog I’ve ever read and I find you and your work very interesting. Where are you based?
[…] You just can’t find this stuff here in Sweden, and I have wanted to try carving a stamp from soft printing block material for years now! I didn’t enjoy cutting linoleum very much when I tried that, it was too hard and I kept cutting my fingers. Cutting in this material is a totally different experience. It’s not like cutting butter but at least similar to carving in a soft sandwich. And saying it’s easy to make marks in the material is not saying it’s easy to cut shapes the way you want them to look. No way, that’s not at all what I’m saying here. […]
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