I took a quick break from my current Gelli plate printing to do something I've always wanted to do - carve a stamp. Remy was watching me - and since he's a sweet dog he didn't comment on my "process" or eat any of the pink carving detritus.
So of course I drew a little image of a dog, no surprises there! and burnished it onto the carving block. I had some idea of what to do from reading Geninne Zlatkis's book, "Making an Impression: Designing and Creating Artful Stamps" - a great book.
I grabbed my tools and started.
Et voici, le chien:
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJH1w9vXJ5BubqfNrXZRE7d9fxll8qamLs22xFG2X76lSk9abhPrRfKvQSDeKJt_gz8iLn-JWTy7i-VSI0SSmAjwXU-MPG9cKIGC1U7SUABSRbH5Xoz_GXO0j3ilbV9VEJrNqlhWpfGAuZ/s1600/WMFI_1st_carved_stamp_a_wb.jpg) |
Freshly carved, yay! |
Here he is with a couple of impressions:
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyLDMpso30P4TvUgkt5EFBIeKPOOGUlh4TC6va4a3eTZYer2Ui0BLsA-iB4_dT77JhwwO9Ya4qudtOXewGIGd-kvEecPDXjUoLqswww8j5jYqtWeH9RjjjMXWvMVS8xxbnRbB1JMgGqJAy/s1600/WMFI_1st_carved_stamp_b_wb.jpg) |
Woof, woof and woof! |
I had a bit of a problem with carving the paws due to carving-tool-driver-error; I wandered over the line ;-)
I had a lot of fun and I will be making more.