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The custom carved stamp that I ordered from Autumn Whispers<\/a> arrived on Monday! I love it! I know I originally sent her the image from here<\/a> but it had to be re-worked for sizing and then I decided to delete a line. AW worked extensively with me on this plus we had image viewing problems! The size of it was a lot bigger than I first anticipated but it just came out so cool and I love the organic feel of carved stamps and she did such a wonderful job, how can I not love it? It’s about the size of a trading card or rather ATC:Artist Trading Card (saying trading cards reminds me of my job at Mada Design<\/a>– not that I didn’t enjoy my time there but I worked with trading cards so much I was dreaming about them.) So perhaps I will be making trading cards again! \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n While working on this with me, we were convoing back and forth on Etsy. I’ve done some eraser carving in the past but never could do such a clean job as ones I’ve seen. I told her she has inspired me to give it another try and to use the special materials I bought. I usually do my carvings on the Staedler erasers <\/a>because they were cheap and I didn’t care if I messed it up. The special material is a large, pink Speedball lino block<\/a>. She gave me some advice and asked me to keep her updated on my finished product. I thought I would first show her the skill level she is dealing with! LOL! Here are the last 2 carvings I’ve done:<\/p>\n I think the most important trait you need in doing this is PATIENCE<\/strong>. Autumn Whispers, can you teach me patience? \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00c2\u00a0 The custom carved stamp that I ordered from Autumn Whispers arrived on Monday! I love it! I know I originally sent her the image from here but it had to be re-worked for sizing and then I decided to delete a line. AW worked extensively with me on this plus we had image viewing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,6,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thebunnylog.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thebunnylog.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thebunnylog.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thebunnylog.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thebunnylog.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thebunnylog.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thebunnylog.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thebunnylog.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thebunnylog.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"carving2blog.jpg\"](\"http:\/\/thebunnylog.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/carving2blog.jpg\")
\nIn case you can’t read it “A mix by luluvision@earthlink.net” to be used on my mix CDs. Very sloppy as you can see. I changed my e-mail and made another stamp on the other side of the eraser (because I’m all about recycling!):<\/p>\n![\"carving3blog.jpg\"](\"http:\/\/thebunnylog.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/carving3blog.jpg\")
\nInstead of mix, I just did “made by” so I could also use it on other things. See how my carving is just so uneven? It’s a bit better than the other side. Here is a side by side comparison to her stamp!<\/p>\n![\"carving4blog.jpg\"](\"http:\/\/thebunnylog.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/carving4blog.jpg\")
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