Carving Rubber Stamps by Christine Schmidt - Creativebug

Carving Rubber Stamps

Christine Schmidt

Taught by Christine Schmidt

Beginner | 11 min 46 sec

Taught by Christine Schmidt

With simple carving tools and your design sensibilities, you can carve a custom set of stamps to add personality and zip to stationery, textiles and more. Christine shows you how to transfer a design and which tools to use, to celebrate the charm and imperfections of printing by hand.

Learn how to:

Make custom stamps
Transfer your design onto your stamp

What you’ll get:

An easy-to-follow lesson on crafting your own stamp pad
8 HD video lessons you can access online anytime, anywhere
Itemized supply list
Downloadable PDF pattern included
Step-by-step instruction by artist Christine Schmidt
The ability to leave comments, ask questions and interact with other students

Chapters

Introduction
Overview00:13

Making the Stamp
Materials00:59
How to use carving tools01:33
Transfer design01:17
Carve design02:23
Make corrections01:26
Mount the stamp00:58

Project
Stamping01:57
Clean up01:00

Materials

Here’s what you’ll need:

Soft rubber block, such as Speedball or Soft-Kut

Linoleum cutter knife

Water-based stamp ink pad

Pencil

Scrap paper

Moistened sponge or wet paper towel for cleanup

Wood block and super glue (optional)

Or

Yellow Owl Workshop's Carve-A-Stamp Kit

Downloads:

Carving_Stamps.pdf

Buy the Kit

Carving Rubber Stamps

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