Make a Cutie Little Rainbow Stamp · Craftwhack

Fen and I were playing around with painting little rainbows yesterday. We got all reckless with our rainbow colors, brazenly challenging science, and we felt pretty good nearly ourselves.

Rainbows are fun to depict from scratch, only I wanted to brand a rainbow stamp skeleton to use quickly to experiment with color combinations. Colors are fun things in combinations.

I love these stamp making kits so much. When I was a youngster, nosotros only had the linoleum blocks to carve stamps from, and those things tin can be maddening to utilise. These lilliputian pinkish flexible surfaces are piece of cake to chop upward to use for multiple projects, and much easier to carve. I wasn't sure where my carving tool was, so I but bought the whole little kit at Michael's- it includes the pinkish block, the carving tool (wooden handle with 2 carving tips), tracing paper, some stamp templates, and a modest piece of tracing paper.

I also bought an low-cal grayness Ink Pad, which is a much prettier color than it shows in the Amazon photo- information technology's almost a calorie-free silverish.

So. If you you lot want to use my rainbow template, go ahead and download it right hither, so you tin transfer it onto your plate. If y'all want to use another epitome, PicMonkey has tons of great overlays that would make bully stamps, some free and some part of their subscription.

How To Transfer an Image Onto The Plate

If you take a laser print, yous can fe information technology correct onto the plate (consult the directions that come with the plate). I have an inkjet printer, and so I used the former pencil method. Trace the back of the paper over the lines, so flip it over and trace information technology again over the plate. This transfers pencil lines onto the plate. I suggest taking yous time here, considering if you rush, like you're tempted to, you'll end up with a crappy image, and and so you'll get all mad and whip the plate confronting the wall, storm out and catch the next coach to Peoria and become a tragic, done-upward fake eyelash applier.

Start cutting with the tool, using the more narrow blade. I constitute it easiest to exercise in betwixt the rainbow lines in (mostly) 1 steady, very slow cut. After these are done, you tin can cut around the shape of the rainbow with a craft knife, and so switch to the bigger blade to cut abroad the surface around the rainbow.

Y'all will want to test the stamp with your ink pad and a scrap piece of paper a few times for any areas that are too raised, and and so you tin get back in and cut them away. The dazzler of this is that you lot accept a page full of rainbows to experiment with. I love the way hand-cut stamps look; reminiscent of wood block prints with their uneven, carved lines.

A first I used permanent markers in different combinations, drawing 1 line of color in between each set of grey rainbow lines. Practice with the markers- my first few rainbows looked like I had simply downed a pot of coffee. I finally found it easier to first the mark line, then rotate the newspaper equally I drew and then I could see where I was going.

The pastel markers looked the all-time with the grey ink, and I actually liked the way the postage looked without any color added in. Side by side, I tried black ink. It stood up to the bolder colors better. I besides tried colored pencils in some of the rainbows, and they are more than subtle and easier to command when y'all are coloring in such a small space.