craftgrrl | making your own rubber stamps, the sequel

I posted a few days ago about making your own rubber stamps and how much fun I was having with it and how it suited my needs wonderfully. A few people asked for pictures, so here they are:

The top is a print-out (in 60pt font) of the font that I used (Candles). The second row was made using my rubber stamps. You can see that making my own rubber stamps was not an exact science. Some of the letters came out quite differently than the original font. I suppose that's my own fault for using a font that has so many thin parts to it. ;) But, I kind of like it because in the process it kind of becomes your own font in a way. Also, it definitely has that "rubber stamp" look, but I kind of like it.

This is one of the blocks (of art gum eraser) that I used to carve the stamps. I used all six sides of each, which you can kind of see here (and a bit in the picture above as well).

I picked up a rubber sheet made especially for making your own rubber stamps at the store this weekend so I'll try that out at some point. The art gum erasers are a bit too crumbly, so hopefully this will work a lot better. And as pointed out by

loosetooth there are tools made especially for this. Perhaps when I have some extra money lying around, I'll invest in those, too. Particularly because I really enjoy the whole process of making my own stamps, and would recommend it to anyone thinking about giving it a shot.