…compilation of tutorials
Have you ever thought of designing your own exlibris?
In principle you can use an eraser stamp, but I couldn’t carve my name in this.
Perhaps it’d be better to use blank cutting blocks?! ;-)
Links:
Exlibris (Tutorial-Personalized Bookplate Stamps)
English Wikipedia entry for ‘Exlibris’
German Wikipedia entry for ‘Exlibris’
Here at unikatissima:
Eraser Stamps
Oh my god, the people have such wonderful ideas: for instance making a rolling pin with pennants to send friendly messages in a nice way.
That’s sort of the mini version of the rolling pin print ;-)
Links:
Pennant Rubber Stamp Roller
Here at unikatissima:
Entries containing the word ‘rolling pin print’
I cut myself some eraser stamps already and even an eraser stamp with a repeated pattern, but if I try to print a background pattern from stamp repeats I always have problems.
The entry about spacing stamps helped me further :)
Links:
Spacing Stamps (Lining things up)
Here at unikatissima:
Eraser Stamps
Repeated Pattern Eraser Stamp
The people have soo great ideas: the miniature marble stamps are nothing else than transparent glass pebbles, flat on one side where she glued on some cut craft foam: fast and effective.
And beautiful ;-)
You can easily glue on little filled and empty squares and then stamp patterns from crochet or cross stitch embroidery charts ;-)
And if you don’t like to stamp then you can make a beautiful ring from your glass pebble ;-)
Links:
Miniature marble stamps
via: Craftster Best of 2009
Here at unikatissima:
What Can You Do With Filet Crochet/Cross Stitch Embroidery Charts?
Glass Pebble Ring
Entries with the tag ‘Stamping’
I really like these faux postages, I find that they make an impact on a card e.g.
And it doesn’t seem too difficult to make them ;-)
Links:
Faux Postage
Lately two ideas crashed in my head and I like the result ;-)
One was the eraser stamp, the other the repeating patterns.
I marked the size of my eraser on paper, designed there a pattern following the technique of the repeating patterns, carved it from my eraser (it was mirrored but that’s no problem with this pattern) and begun stamping.
It is great to make repeating patterns on cards or the like, but when I’ll need to stamp a bigger area I’LL prefer to use the rolling pin print (here and here).
Links:
Here at unikatissima:
Eraser Stamps
Repeating Patterns
Rolling Pin Prints
Rolling Pin Prints II
Again a wonderful idea: stamp little polymer clay tiles, cure, dye and afterwards sand away dye excesses.
In principle it’s the same as my carved candle holder, only there I pressed polymer clay into the crease and cured it a second time.
I think that dye is more ‘sand-friendly’ ;-))
Links:
Fill-Ins with Polymer Clay and Paint
Here at unikatissima:
Carving Polymer Clay
I wrote already an entry about rolling pin prints, even so I find this instruction interesting, too.
As she says: you can use it easily to design your own gift wrap and it won’t take long until you possibly need some gift wrap ;-))
Links:
Rolling Pin Prints (Fabric Background Rollers – More Play Time)
More Rolling Pin Prints (More Rollers, More New Prints)
Here at unikatissima:
Rolling Pin Prints
Doesn’t the pin look wonderful?
‘Simply’ decorate several sheets of translucent polymer clay with a pattern, layer them and you get a piece of jewelry with real depth!
One day…
;-)
Links:
Layered Illusions
The tutorial about plaster casting in a simple foam tray is meant again as kids craft.
But I have some buttons and stamps with interesting surfaces – I should be able to use them to make some cute plaster pendants from, shouldn’t I?
I’m looking for this foam trays for a certain time, but I can’t get them here.
Seems as if I have to resort to play dough or even to carving them myself ;-)
Links:
Foam Tray Casting
Here at unikatissima:
Plaster Relief
Carved Plaster Plaques