> Switching gears. One of the messages I was reading this morning showed some hesitation over stamp carving, especially with all the talent around here. Please don't be! Try your hand, discover if you like it. Everyone had a first time. Don't just stop with one that you think is "baby carving" - practice improves all art forms! Heh, its not my strong point either, but, that shouldn't stop me. Sometimes though, a store bought solves a particular. I'm currently looking for a beer mug. I've got a pizza box (one of those triangle tupperware ones to save a slice) and want to plant a beer and pizza. Will need a big area to place that one.
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OK, I made my stamp before we ever went letterboxing, because I wanted
to add the crafty element of stamp carving to the experience.
That said, had I not made my own, I would have probably used a
store-bought stamp, one I'm considering using if I ever damage my
hand-carved.
It's not that I can't make my own stamp. It's that the one I have is
so "me." It's a bass clarinet (I play bass clarinet). Bass clarinet
*anything* is rare enough, but a stamp is just so cool-- people
finding my stamp would know it was almost certainly me. And I keep
thinking "Well, maybe you should just make a new bass clarinet stamp"
and then I laugh and laugh and laugh. My hand-carved stamp is 2 inches
wide and has 8 thick, crude letters and six symbols. A bass
clarinet.... is waaay more complex.
So, who else uses a store-bought stamp because the design is exactly
something "you" and something you could never carve yourself?
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Stephanie Bryant
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