While I don’t think I could go so far as to carve a stamp a day like Gertie Jacquet I do love my stamp carving lately. I’ve been so inspired by my visits to Petit Morpho in Hong Kong, crazy chinese talent and amazing french talent like La fabutinuese and of course so many others on my pinterest carving board! They all produce such clean work in such amazing detail. It’s really inspired me to lift my game.
I’ve posted a lot of the results here and on my instagram I’ve just begun putting some more effort into the way I package these up before I send them out.
Here is a small set I created for a Swap-bot tag;
And here is my favourite set I’ve carved to date. Hoot the Owl.
That one is for a penpal christmas gift swap. I really love how he turned out and I’m going to carve my own set for personal use.
Of all the crazy things to do I’ve decided to create my own diary/day planner for next year. Nothing I’ve seen seems to meet my needs and I’m craving something more creative layout wise. I’ve decided to use the Invite.l Magazine Editorial Notebook as my base I adore the look of their moodboard images but haven’t been able to do them justice so it has languished in the shelf of notebooks-that-are-too-nice-to-use. I’ve begun carving Day of the week stamps (Monday, Tuesday etc) I think I’ll mix it up and also carve a set in French and a set in Italian for a bit of fun. Then of course I’ve love to carve 1 – 31 I know I hear you saying but 0-9 will cover everything! I really want to have the double digits be cohesive designs instead of numbers plonked next to each other.
So here’s my planner stamp to-do list:
Days of the week (english) (7)
Days of the week (french) (7)
Days of the week (italian) (7)
Dates (31)
Months (12)
That’s 63 stamps!! Eeep! I’ve carved 1 so far!!!
Wish me luck!
I just discovered your blog by Julie (Penpal of the week) and I must say I really LOVE your handcarved owl stamps !! You are sooo creative !! And good luck with your “day of the week” and number carving !! You will probably not be bored the first weeks to come ;)
HI Connie, Thanks for Stopping by my blog! I know the days of the weeks are such a daunting task!! I found a quick way to carve the first set at least i’ll post it on the blog tomorrow!!
JaniceMarie
Looooveee these!! You are very talented!!
Your stamps look amazing! I want to try hand carving but I have the feeling I won’t have the patience to do it :/. And by the way, I joined Swap-Bot recently and I’m thrilled by the swaps I’ve done so far! :p
I tried my first one, you’re going to laugh!
http://shellielewis.wordpress.com/2012/12/12/making-a-hand-carved-rubber-stamp/
Fabulous! I love it – it’s all part of my world domination via stampo carving agenda.
On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 9:40 AM, Friperee(n):
Ohhh thanks for what you’re said !! It’s very nice to you :) (and thanks for tour comment today) Merry christmas from France ;)