Art Clips: My handmade Rubber Stamps

I have not updated my blog in a long time as I have been spending my time making rubber stamps~! I started making them couple weeks ago when I was looking for rubber stamps to buy on the internet and then I came up the idea of making them myself. And at the same time, Kitty showed me her first handmade stamp that she learned from a teacher in Japan. I really admired that she can have the privilege to get taught so professionally but thank God she showed me the steps in her blog and she also gave me one of the Japanese rubber stamp artist names so I got to learn more from her through the internet.

One of the rubber stamp making books she recommended to me was written by Tsukui Tomoko 津久井智子. She is only 32 years old but her work is brilliant already. I was inspired by her works and decided to make my own!!!

These are the tools I use for making rubber stamps
tracing paper • x-acto knife • carving knives • 4B pencil

Very importantly, a rubber pad. I like a thicker pad, it's easier to carve and hold when carving. This is about 1cm thick.
In Toronto, there are not many stores that carry rubber stamp making tools. Versus in Japan, they have plenty, especially for rubber pads, they sell with beautiful packaging and pads in different surface colour. So that when you carve, you can recognize easily the area that need to carve and not carve.

These are found in Japanese website. I'll buy them when I visit Japan next time!!!

I made about 15 rubber stamps in a weekend as I had many images in mind that I couldn't stopped making them all out!

It's Year of Snake so I made greeting cards with this snake stamped on it!

My husband likes the HK style egg tart the most, he can imagine it's very yummy!!

This is the valentine's gift for my husband --- his roaring expression!!!

I love the rabbit rubber stamp a lot~~ it's the first one I made with a background~

I was so glad to receive these 6 packs of rubber stamp pens two days ago!! They are like lipstick so I can easily fill different colour on my stamps!

These are all produced by 津久井智子.

Very nice packaging!!

I can never find these colour in Toronto~~~~

Look how tiny it is!! but colour quality is great!

Yesterday, we went downtown to buy some rubber pads. It was snowing and very cold but we made it! I had the idea of making a rubber stamp of our house for the whole week and finally I took a picture of my house exterior right when we got home. I then printed the house out in different sizes as I wasn't sure how tiny I can make.

Then I traced it on tracing paper with my 4B pencil

I then just printed the image on the stamp pad--- scratched it with my finger

Started off with the outer edge of the image

Then the rooftop

Windows!!!

At the end, I decided to add some background for this rubber stamp!

With the new stamp pens, I was able to add many colour on the rubber stamp!!!

I have promised my very good friend that I would make a name rubber stamp for her. She likes having small plants in her office and so I added this little plant beside her name.