Art Prof: Create & Critique Hi.! Thanks for your awesome tutorials! I’ve been stamping, embossing and paper crafting for a few years now, but I have yet to carve my own stamps! After watching your video, I have been inspired to finally give it a go! Also, Helpful hints: 1) Pick up an embossing buddy or anti static tool if you’re enjoying the Heat Embossing. Wipe the paper with the tool before stamping. This will help the powder not to stick! 2) Get yours some VERSAMARK clear embossing ink. It’s sticky and amazing ( for monotone , clear and detailed embossing). 3) Any ink can be used as a base for embossing powder! I often use clear detail or fine powder with my colored stamps. I also enjoy this technique, as I can be more creative blending the colors of the ink into my stamps! P.S. - It’s neat that you’re from NH. I am from VT. Thanks again 💜 Hannah
Omg the easiest transfer method ever is: draw your image as you want it to appear with ball point pen on regular paper. then flip the paper onto your block and dab it with an alcohol wetted cotton ball to dampen the paper. The less ink and alcohol the better (no big inky areas- these will bleed and blur, so just outline them) test your pens for transfer quality before committing to one.
Wow, thank you, that's so easy and makes so much sense, too! It sounds like doing a Citrasolv transfer. I will definitely be trying this with my next stamp! -Lauryn (Art Prof Teaching Artist)
It was enlightening to consider Lauren's statement: "Stamp carving is the easiest beginner step into printmaking." Very thorough video, including how to use such stamps. I really appreciated that attention to detail, making great use of my time to learn a lot watching these videos.
These are my comfort videos lol I feel so relaxed and motivated to create 😌 After finding art prof I have been more confident in trying new techniques!!
Haha nice catch! Thanks so much for watching, if you liked this video, you might also enjoy this one about book binding: th-cam.com/video/BgYvZW0jEa8/w-d-xo.html feel free to check it out :) - Mia Rozear, Art Prof Staff
Thanks for the tip, I'll try that! I use the pencil transfer because I have a hard time keeping track of where I've already burnished, but I'd opt for less messy and less effort anywhere possible! -Lauryn (Art Prof Teaching Artist)
Great tutorial! I'm expanding my techniques for etching metal jewelry and know that some people use stamps and Staz On ink pads as a resist for acid (actually more like a salt) etching. You did a really good time explaining this technique and I'm happy to see how much detail you can get. I still struggle with thinking about positive/negative space with design, but this helps to know you cut out around your pencil transfer.
You can rub your printing area with a corn starch pillow to prevent getting embossing powder places other than where you want them from the stamp. They sell them or you can make your own.
Thank you so much for taking the time to make this video. You took what I thought was impossible to being possible. I actually feel I can achieve making a stamp after watching your video. And love how all the information is laid out in detail. Just brilliant eternally grateful. 🐦🐦🐦
Wonderful, thank you!!! If you want even more info related to the tutorial, we have more on the tutorial page on our main site: artprof.org/courses/rubber-stamps/
@@artprof Thank You so much and for responding to my message. I look forward to looking on your website. As I'm a visual learner I really value these incredible tutorials put up by such talented artists willing to share there skills and some share skills that have been passed done through their family making it even more inspirational. And most importantly to remember that art can be a community. Thankyou for all the joy and anticipation I feel for the want to try make my own stamps. 😊
Have you ever heard of letterboxing? It is a game similar to geocaching but instead of using a GPS- you use clues to find hardcarved stamps that people hide. You don’t take the stamp but just stamp your book and use your “trail stamp” to leave an image in the hiders logbook. Atlas quest or Letterboxing North America are websites for clues.
Yes! There is an artist in my community that does letterboxing! I've never done it myself, but her her hunts are sooo cool! thisisannputnam.com/the-hunts/ -Lauryn, Art Prof Teaching Artist
The part of the video explaining the carving of the stamp is well done, but the embossing information is incorrect. Check You Tube videos that are about cardmaking and you'll find better information. The embossing powder is a resin that melts under the heat of the heat gun. A clear ink called VersaMark is most often used to ink the stamp, but pigment ink (such as was used here) can be used. The heat gun should be turned on away from the stamp, then brought to it once it has warmed up. The heat gun doesn't need to be right on top of the powder and it should be moved around. Once you see the powder melting, you move on to another area. If you are seeing the powder melt and boil, you've gotten it too hot. If you are burning the paper, you have definitely gotten the surface too hot! And, pigment inks do dry, they just take longer than dye inks (which cannot be used for embossing).
Thank you for this demo very helpful. I love the Paris based company la Tampographe Sardonique they do some very cool witty stamps. I am not sponsored by them I wish I had the money to buy them maybe now maybe I can make my own.
Some l saw just before you niece manicure with the jacquard carving tool showed her bobo so l would retract that not dangerous. I years ago on this l himurt myself . Love the birds. Can l use these stamps on fabric with fabric paints ? Just use fabric ink or paint ? Rock On 👍🤓😷🙃😇🐦
Pigment ink does dry! It takes a hour or 2 or you set it wit the heat gun. And if your paper turns color you have already burned your embossing powder. Only heat it until it melts and looks wet.
Yeah, I totally burned the paper here! 😅 Really appreciate your tips! I've had some major issues with pigment ink drying on its own with some brands of card stock that have pearlescent sheen. Heat setting is the only way I've found that will give the ink any kind of permanence. -Lauryn, Art Prof Teaching Artist
@@nicholleholmgren6280 You can use casting & mold making processes, I'm sure. Smooth-on has tons of different rubbers for different purposes. You could possibly make the initial stamp just out of plastilina clay instead of carving rubber
If you are into sculpture, sometimes you can toss things like this into whatever compound you are using, as aggregate to expand the bulk/ save money on compound, & even improve the cast properties. Concrete might be an option, although some research shows it can develop air pockets, such as when using shredded tire rubber as an aggregate. You could probably throw them in something like paper mache pulp method; or if you use thick areas of modelling paste in paintings, etc
Where you cut is what will become white, and where you don't cut is where the stamp will print. Hope that makes sense! Let us know if you have more questions!
For learning about embossing, I'd suggest checking out videos of cardmaker youtubers Jennifer Mcguire and Kristina Werner, they have really beautiful works with ink stamping and embossing.
Thank you, your recommendations are much appreciated! I understand stamps and linocuts pretty well, but I'm weak with embossing and would love to learn from an expert! -Lauryn (Art Prof Teaching Artist)
You can add airbrush medium or high flow medium to acrylic paints, to make them ink like, or use acrylic ink in a painting that also uses thicker acrylic
The comment at 02:21 is really confusing because afterwards you're demonstrating a technique (transferring a drawing from a page) where the final image will not be mirrored. You only need to keep this issue in mind if your initial drawing was done directly to the block. I printed mirrored letters and then transferred them from the page to a block and carved it out. Guess what the result is? Mirrored letters. That's totally my fault, but I was acting on your warning without actually giving a thought to the fact that it doesn't apply to the technique you demonstrate.
Yes, in printmaking there are a lot of circumstantial rules that can change based on what you're specifically doing! We are sorry to have confused you-- if it makes you feel better, I've messed up every text transfer I've ever done, basically. It's rule #1 and yet I always forget!! - Mia, Art Prof Staff
I believe the video technique works for sketches already in a sketch book. Plus, going over them with marker helps you see what the final stamp will look like. So it seems to me there could be times to do it either way- by tracing paper or from a sketchbook drawing as shown in the video. They did mention other ways to do things. I feel the most helped when a thorough picture is mentioned, of all the possible ways to do such a task, so you see the method in context, among this big picture of possibilities. That teaches you the most. Blessings everyone. Peace. Love wins
See our video tutorial on linoleum printmaking! th-cam.com/video/EBHhZGOMojo/w-d-xo.html
Art Prof: Create & Critique
Hi.! Thanks for your awesome tutorials! I’ve been stamping, embossing and paper crafting for a few years now, but I have yet to carve my own stamps! After watching your video, I have been inspired to finally give it a go!
Also,
Helpful hints:
1) Pick up an embossing buddy or anti static tool if you’re enjoying the Heat Embossing. Wipe the paper with the tool before stamping. This will help the powder not to stick!
2) Get yours some VERSAMARK clear embossing ink. It’s sticky and amazing ( for monotone , clear and detailed embossing).
3) Any ink can be used as a base for embossing powder! I often use clear detail or fine powder with my colored stamps. I also enjoy this technique, as I can be more creative blending the colors of the ink into my stamps!
P.S. - It’s neat that you’re from NH. I am from VT.
Thanks again 💜
Hannah
@@hannahpickett6035 Thanks so much for the tips, I had no idea about all of these techniques. Will definitely pass this all on to Lauryn! -Prof Lieu
Omg the easiest transfer method ever is: draw your image as you want it to appear with ball point pen on regular paper. then flip the paper onto your block and dab it with an alcohol wetted cotton ball to dampen the paper. The less ink and alcohol the better (no big inky areas- these will bleed and blur, so just outline them) test your pens for transfer quality before committing to one.
Wow, thank you, that's so easy and makes so much sense, too! It sounds like doing a Citrasolv transfer. I will definitely be trying this with my next stamp! -Lauryn (Art Prof Teaching Artist)
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It was enlightening to consider Lauren's statement: "Stamp carving is the easiest beginner step into printmaking." Very thorough video, including how to use such stamps. I really appreciated that attention to detail, making great use of my time to learn a lot watching these videos.
These are my comfort videos lol I feel so relaxed and motivated to create 😌 After finding art prof I have been more confident in trying new techniques!!
I'm so glad!-Prof Lieu
Very very helpful and what a sweet presence and conversation ❤❤❤
Glad it was helpful for you! 🥰 -Lauryn, Art Prof Teaching Artist
Great video for us beginners thanks you!
Glad you enjoyed it! -Prof Lieu
Anyone else notice artists are always left handed? That's interesting. Awesome tutorial you make it look so easy!!
Haha nice catch! Thanks so much for watching, if you liked this video, you might also enjoy this one about book binding: th-cam.com/video/BgYvZW0jEa8/w-d-xo.html feel free to check it out :) - Mia Rozear, Art Prof Staff
I'm an artist and I'm right handed....welp there goes that goal
Some people are ambidextrous, they can use both hands to varying degrees… artist? Not an artist? Lol. Very interesting thought, ty.
Great tutorial! And you're so lucky to have inherited some good stuff from your dad; I had to pay for all of them XO
Great video! I'm going to try to make a stamp.
I always played the hand slapping game with my brother back in the day. So fun.
That's a great idea! Good luck with your work :) - Mia Rozear, Art Prof Staff
I prefer to use a spoon to burnish my image onto the carving material. Way less effort and less messy.
Thanks for the tip, I'll try that! I use the pencil transfer because I have a hard time keeping track of where I've already burnished, but I'd opt for less messy and less effort anywhere possible! -Lauryn (Art Prof Teaching Artist)
Great tutorial! I'm expanding my techniques for etching metal jewelry and know that some people use stamps and Staz On ink pads as a resist for acid (actually more like a salt) etching. You did a really good time explaining this technique and I'm happy to see how much detail you can get. I still struggle with thinking about positive/negative space with design, but this helps to know you cut out around your pencil transfer.
Wow that sounds really cool! Love hearing how this rubber stamp technique can leak into jewelry techniques!
You can rub your printing area with a corn starch pillow to prevent getting embossing powder places other than where you want them from the stamp. They sell them or you can make your own.
Cool, thanks for the tip! 😀
Just a side note, if you carve out the printed area then it becomes an intaglio printing plate.
Super good Tutorial - thanks👍🏼 I personally use for transfering Carbon Paper ✏️❤️
That's a great idea! - Mia Rozear, Art Prof Staff
Thank you so much for taking the time to make this video. You took what I thought was impossible to being possible. I actually feel I can achieve making a stamp after watching your video. And love how all the information is laid out in detail. Just brilliant eternally grateful. 🐦🐦🐦
Wonderful, thank you!!! If you want even more info related to the tutorial, we have more on the tutorial page on our main site: artprof.org/courses/rubber-stamps/
@@artprof Thank You so much and for responding to my message. I look forward to looking on your website. As I'm a visual learner I really value these incredible tutorials put up by such talented artists willing to share there skills and some share skills that have been passed done through their family making it even more inspirational. And most importantly to remember that art can be a community. Thankyou for all the joy and anticipation I feel for the want to try make my own stamps. 😊
@@butterfly4591 Thank you for your lovely comments, we really appreciate your support!
Use an anti-static bag on your paper before you stamp. It'll save you a step off having to brush away the unwanted embossing powder around your image.
Ooh, GREAT tip! Thank you :) - Mia Rozear, Art Prof Staff
Have you ever heard of letterboxing? It is a game similar to geocaching but instead of using a GPS- you use clues to find hardcarved stamps that people hide. You don’t take the stamp but just stamp your book and use your “trail stamp” to leave an image in the hiders logbook. Atlas quest or Letterboxing North America are websites for clues.
Yes! There is an artist in my community that does letterboxing! I've never done it myself, but her her hunts are sooo cool!
thisisannputnam.com/the-hunts/
-Lauryn, Art Prof Teaching Artist
Lovely tutorial! She is so talented!
lauryn is a good teacher
For sure! - Mia Rozear, Art Prof Staff
Great questions!
We're glad you think so! - Mia Rozear, Art Prof Staff
The part of the video explaining the carving of the stamp is well done, but the embossing information is incorrect. Check You Tube videos that are about cardmaking and you'll find better information. The embossing powder is a resin that melts under the heat of the heat gun. A clear ink called VersaMark is most often used to ink the stamp, but pigment ink (such as was used here) can be used. The heat gun should be turned on away from the stamp, then brought to it once it has warmed up. The heat gun doesn't need to be right on top of the powder and it should be moved around. Once you see the powder melting, you move on to another area. If you are seeing the powder melt and boil, you've gotten it too hot. If you are burning the paper, you have definitely gotten the surface too hot! And, pigment inks do dry, they just take longer than dye inks (which cannot be used for embossing).
Very cool thank you for sharing.
You're so welcome, thank YOU for watching! - Mia, Art Prof Staff
Wonderful tutorial!
Don't forget the Bewick Wren (in CA). So adorable! Nice video. I've been wanting to make some rubberstamps, just didn't know how. Thank you.
That's so cool, you should totally give it a try! - Mia Rozear, Art Prof Staff
Excellent video. She is very talented!
Thank you! We also have this other printmaking tutorial on monotypes you might enjoy: th-cam.com/video/6Li320HKnuU/w-d-xo.html -Prof Lieu
Thank-u University of Stamp Making Ladies
Wonderful tutorial; thanks for sharing.
Aaahhh this is so cool! I want to try this! 😁😁
Thank you for this demo very helpful. I love the Paris based company la Tampographe Sardonique they do some very cool witty stamps. I am not sponsored by them I wish I had the money to buy them maybe now maybe I can make my own.
Ooh that's lovely! Maybe you can take inspiration from them and develop your own, I love that idea! - Mia, Art Prof Staff
I really needed this!🤍🥺🌸
Some l saw just before you niece manicure with the jacquard carving tool showed her bobo so l would retract that not dangerous.
I years ago on this l himurt myself .
Love the birds.
Can l use these stamps on fabric with fabric paints ? Just use fabric ink or paint ?
Rock On 👍🤓😷🙃😇🐦
Great tutorial thanks!
Glad it was helpful! -Prof Lieu
This was super helpful! Thanks 😊
Pleasure to help!
Pigment ink does dry! It takes a hour or 2 or you set it wit the heat gun. And if your paper turns color you have already burned your embossing powder. Only heat it until it melts and looks wet.
Yeah, I totally burned the paper here! 😅 Really appreciate your tips! I've had some major issues with pigment ink drying on its own with some brands of card stock that have pearlescent sheen. Heat setting is the only way I've found that will give the ink any kind of permanence. -Lauryn, Art Prof Teaching Artist
@@artprof no problem. I've been a stamper for many years and am just getting into carving my own stamps.
excellente video girls ♥thank you ...LIKE
Loved that!! ❤️
Lovely!
Thanks for watching! - Mia , Art Prof Staff
Fantastic!!!👏👏👏👏
Is there a way to duplicate ( other then re-carving by hand) the stamp you have carved out?
Not really, altho I'm not sure why you need to duplicate the stamp? A second stamp wouldn't do anything different than the first one. -Prof Lieu
@@artprof i mean if you wanted to sell them 🤷♀️
@@nicholleholmgren6280 You can use casting & mold making processes, I'm sure. Smooth-on has tons of different rubbers for different purposes. You could possibly make the initial stamp just out of plastilina clay instead of carving rubber
Can i use these stamps on fabric? Any special dye or color? Thank you 😊
Yes! Just make sure you're using inks made for fabrics and you'll be fine. -Prof Lieu
This video rocks 💞
You rock! - Mia Rozear, Art Prof Staff
Hello, I’m just looking around because I maybe interested in trying this. My question is what do you do with the eraser shavings?
I just toss them in the trash when I'm done, unless they're big enough to carve a little stamp from. -Lauryn, Art Prof Teaching Artist
If you are into sculpture, sometimes you can toss things like this into whatever compound you are using, as aggregate to expand the bulk/ save money on compound, & even improve the cast properties. Concrete might be an option, although some research shows it can develop air pockets, such as when using shredded tire rubber as an aggregate. You could probably throw them in something like paper mache pulp method; or if you use thick areas of modelling paste in paintings, etc
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I'm totally new at this, so i'm wondering how can I know exactly where is the correct area to cut & where not to cut.
Where you cut is what will become white, and where you don't cut is where the stamp will print. Hope that makes sense! Let us know if you have more questions!
good for stamping chinese characters so my handwriting can now be consistent, lol!
Ooh that's a great idea! - Mia, Art Prof Staff
For learning about embossing, I'd suggest checking out videos of cardmaker youtubers Jennifer Mcguire and Kristina Werner, they have really beautiful works with ink stamping and embossing.
Thank you, your recommendations are much appreciated! I understand stamps and linocuts pretty well, but I'm weak with embossing and would love to learn from an expert! -Lauryn (Art Prof Teaching Artist)
@@artprof you're welcome! I thought the more detailed explanations given by Jennifer would help
cooool thx!
from what I can make rubber for stamps, I mean recycling
You can try erasers! -Prof Lieu
can you use acrylic paint instead of stamp ink?
Yep! Just make sure you wash your stamp right away afterward, so it doesn't get gummed up. :) -Lauryn (Art Prof Teaching Artist)
You can add airbrush medium or high flow medium to acrylic paints, to make them ink like, or use acrylic ink in a painting that also uses thicker acrylic
The comment at 02:21 is really confusing because afterwards you're demonstrating a technique (transferring a drawing from a page) where the final image will not be mirrored. You only need to keep this issue in mind if your initial drawing was done directly to the block.
I printed mirrored letters and then transferred them from the page to a block and carved it out. Guess what the result is? Mirrored letters. That's totally my fault, but I was acting on your warning without actually giving a thought to the fact that it doesn't apply to the technique you demonstrate.
Yes, in printmaking there are a lot of circumstantial rules that can change based on what you're specifically doing! We are sorry to have confused you-- if it makes you feel better, I've messed up every text transfer I've ever done, basically. It's rule #1 and yet I always forget!! - Mia, Art Prof Staff
Thanks for sharing your video, so what area in NH are you from, I am originally from Nashua, I now live out in Eastern Washington.
Sorry, we don't get specific about where our staff lives because of privacy concerns.
@@artprof Oh yes I can surely understand your meaning here, well that's ok.
Why don’t you just tracing paper
I believe the video technique works for sketches already in a sketch book. Plus, going over them with marker helps you see what the final stamp will look like. So it seems to me there could be times to do it either way- by tracing paper or from a sketchbook drawing as shown in the video. They did mention other ways to do things. I feel the most helped when a thorough picture is mentioned, of all the possible ways to do such a task, so you see the method in context, among this big picture of possibilities. That teaches you the most. Blessings everyone. Peace. Love wins
i'm confused as why she is talking to another woman and not the camera.... :/
We hoped it would feel like you're in the classroom with us :) - Mia Rozear, Art Prof Staff