March Part 1 - Stamp Carving

March 2017 

We settled in quickly getting to work  carving our stamps!

Beth, Bonnie and Nancy working away!

Kay was very busy and had two different types of carving blocks to work with.

The top white block is made of rubber that most of us use to carve our stamps.  This rubber block is easy to carve and gives a decent print.  Kay's bottom  green carving (the opposite side is blue - but you an carve either side) is a vinyl block produced in Japan.  This type of block is used by some of your major linocut artists who print on paper.  Kay did say it wasn't hard to carve so I'm anxious to see how it prints on fabric.  

Bonnie was carving a free hand block!  It will be a great background stamp!

Nancy was working hard even carving some rubber erasers!  

The pink block Nancy is carving is a circle with rays extending out from the circle.  Should be a cool print.

The pink block and flower carvings are Beth's.  She also had a lino block  (grey) that she cut.  The lino block Beth found at Hobby Lobby.  She did a  good job of carving an interesting  geometric design.

The large stamp is one I carved back in 2009 when I took an online 'lino' class from Dijanne Cevaal.  It was a great class and Dijanne provided so much information!!  I know she offers her lino online class from time to time.  Her blog is great inspiration for seeing how stamping on fabric can really enhance an ugly piece of fabric!

  Betty Cake for dessert!    Oops...and here I thought it was a stamp!

We have been joking about what we could do with some of the carving scraps!  Oh boy!  I can honestly think of a few things but do I really need another project!  I think not!