Setting craft goals can really be good sometimes for your creativity. Traci Bunkers, author of Print & Stamp Lab: 52 Ideas for Handmade, Upcycled Print Tools, is doing 30 days of carving. This is just one of her designs she has printed from one of her carvings. Over at her blog Traci Bunkers, there are posts filled with each day's carvings and the designs she has stamped using the carvings.
What I liked most about this particular stamped design was the opportunity to fill in the dots differently.
I love making the tools we then use to craft with. It is such a complete experience!
Like the idea of making your own implements of stamping too? Then grab yourself a copy of:
52 Ideas for Handmade, Upcycled Print Tools
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Artist and popular workshop instructor Traci Bunkers can turn just about anything into an interesting stamp, printing block, or tool. In this book, she shows readers how to see overlooked, everyday objects in a new way, and how to "MacGyver" them into easy to use printing blocks and tools. Readers learn to create 52 print blocks and stamp tools, all from inexpensive, ordinary, and unexpected materials--string, spools, bandages, flip flops, ear plugs, rubber bands, school erasers, and a slew of other repurposed and upcycled items. The book also shows how to use those simple tools to make gorgeous, multi-layered prints and patterns that can be used to enhance journal covers, stationery, fabrics, accessories, and more.
Traci Bunkers is a passionate and quirky self-employed mixed-media and fiber artist living in Lawrence, Kansas. Through her one-woman business Bonkers Handmade Originals, she sells her nifty creations such as hand-dyed spinning fibers and yarns, original rubber stamps, handmade books, kits and original artwork. She also creates an artzine called Tub Legs, designs knitwear, and is a knitting, spinning, and crochet technical editor. She has been teaching workshops across the US since the early 90s and her visual journal pages, artwork, and knit designs have been published in numerous books and magazines. To learn more about her work, visit her web site at www.TraciBunkers.com.
I love Traci Bunkers! And her Print and Stamp book is filled with inexpensive ideas of how to make and use stamps and rollers to print with.
My kind of book!
My kind of artist/designer!
Posted by: SUella | January 28, 2011 at 07:35 PM
Saw Traci's book at B&N and it now makes me look at every surface as a possible stamp and/or stencil ;)
Posted by: Roberta | January 29, 2011 at 01:34 PM