I use a Speedball Lino Cutter to make all my stamps. It’s sort of like an exacto knife with a thicker handle. I have a 3 different sizes of V-shaped tips, a U-shaped tip, and a Knife. I made the DFTBA stamp out of Lino, which comes in several varieties. The type I like is very similar to an eraser, just a little firmer. I actually also use erasers to make small stamps quite often.<\/p>\n
As for the making of the stamp, I cut a piece of Lino that was approximately the size I wanted, and used a pencil to draw on the lettering (remembering to do the lettering backwards, so the stamp would be forwards.) Then I used the smallest V tip to trace around the letters and the larger sizes to cut as deep as I could around the letters. I actually intended them to be a bit thicker originally, but I accidentally cut into them a bit, so I just made them narrower. I switch between sizes quite a bit. I also test the stamp with an ink pad throughout making it, so I know what bits are making contact with the page that shouldn’t be, so I can carve deeper in those areas. That’s pretty much the gist. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I use a Speedball Lino Cutter to make all my stamps. It’s sort of like an exacto knife with a thicker handle. I have a 3 different sizes of V-shaped tips, a U-shaped tip, and a Knife. I made the DFTBA stamp out of Lino, which comes in several varieties. The type I like is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}