Carving a Letterbox Stamp

Drawing, transferring, and carving a rubber stamp for letterboxing. Photographed with a Canon PowerShot S2 IS with intervalometer set at one minute intervals covering a time period of 2 hours, 2 minutes. Materials are Speedball Linoleum Cutter set, an X-Acto knife with a #11 blade, Speedball Speedy Stamp block, acetone (finger nail polish remover), plain paper, pencil, and a stamp pad.

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• draw
• drawing
• carve
• carving
• rubber
• stamp
• letterbox
• letterboxing

[schiarra]

woooow!

sorry.. one question: how do you transfer your image on rubber?

thanks.. and good work!

[CraigGiven]

Dampen paper with acetone (fingernail polish remover)

[angelica14709]

Nice stamp, how many times have you used it? When you use it might say it's carving is on youtube. That would be a treasure. Where do you live letterboxers could vie for the stamp.

[CraigGiven]

It's hidden along the trails at Greenway Farms in Chattanooga, TN and has been found by about 9 letterboxers to date.

[laurabenavidez]

What type of material are you cutting into?

[CraigGiven]

Speedball Speedy-Cut

[koritzls]

i was wondering where you got the tools to make the stamp (the tools used to carve the stamp)

[galacticcow321]

That's amazing, If I found that stamp, I wouldn't have known it was hand-carved... LOL

[angelica14709]

What are all the clues?

[CraigGiven]

The speed is limited by my camera's intervalometer capabilities, sorry.