It takes a little bit of patience but once you've create your own custom design, the stamp is reusable for many cards in the future.
I briefly talked about carving stamps last Christmas; carving also works on rubber erasers if you're frugal like me and want to carve small stamps for ornaments or small gift tags.
Some hints on carving:
- This Carve-A-Stamp kit from Yellow Owl Workshop comes with a great variety of carving tools: from very narrow to large, you can be quite precise in your carving. I highly recommend!
- If you use the kit and trace a design from the Yellow Owl Workshop, it's easy to just carve away your pencil markings. However, if you design your own, like I did with the cupcake above, you have to thoroughly plan ahead to carve away all the areas that you want to be negative (white) space. You can shade those areas darker with a pencil to make carving easier.
- Strong muscles aren't needed with the carving tool. It glides easily across the rubber surface.
- Always keep your fingers behind the carving tool. I am forever scarred from 7th grade art class when my friend Tiffany cut herself on these carving tools and then ran to the nurse's office. You have been warned!
- This step-by-step tutorial is a better guide through the carving process.
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