How to: Hand carve rubber stamps

[twocheeseplease.livejournal.com]

since I've just written up a stamp carving tutorial for two lovely ladies over at swap-bot.com I thought I would share it with the rest of my lovelies over here!

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I hope you enjoyed learning about how I carve my stamps! I’d love to see pictures of any stamps you make, or answer any questions you have about my tute or stamp-carving in general, so please don't be shy!

thanks

[iluvacslater.livejournal.com]

I just wanted to say thank you to everyone who left comments on my last post.
It really means a lot to know that complete strangers are thinking about you.
I guess that's the beauty of this community.

I did get lots of great suggestions, so thank you for those too.
I think I'm going to go with resin, as it seems that will stand the test of time.


Thanks again for everything ladies.

Jewish Embroidery patterns sources please

[haddassah.livejournal.com]

My oldest daughter is getting married in 2009, she is having a second ceremony here on the West coast where I reside with my husband. She has asked me to make her Chuppah (wedding canopy). I know what the canopy will look like, sort of. I need to find Judaica stiching patterns. I will be doing the stiching by hand. Any sources that you can reccomend?

dedicated craft rooms and spaces

[mel21clc.livejournal.com]

Hiya ladies,

I know I've seen pictures of people's craft spaces posted on here intermittently. I'm in the midst of rearranging my large bedroom to be a crafty space separated from my bed area, and I was looking for a community that had pictures, inspiration, and whatnot as the focus of it. Unfortunately, either LJ's search function doesn't work particularly well, or there are no such dedicated crafty spaces communities.

So I thought I'd ask you all and see if anyone belonged to one that I was unable to find, or would be interested in joining if I started one. If it's an untapped market, I'm all about filling the need, but I don't want to reinvent the wheel.

And so this isn't without pictures, ( here's the disaster that spurred me to start doing something more useful with my space. )

question

[ladysinh.livejournal.com]

i'm embroidering patches and was wondering what is a good fabric base? also what is the clear coat on most commercial patches backs?

Curious question

[elmoe.livejournal.com]

I bought this, what I'm pretty sure, is an acrylic painting at a yard sale a few weekends ago. Now I've been thinking about framing it, but it's painted on those canvasses wrapped around the wood frame. Finding a frame for it seems to be pretty hard, and I think that it would look better without a frame, when I give it more thought. With that being said, I want to hang it in the bathroom since I have a fish theme in there and the colours are perfect for it. Do I have to protect it in anyway because of the heat and steam of when I have a shower? I don't want to ruin it because it's a beautiful painting.  Has anyone had any experience with it?

embossing

[iheartastros11.livejournal.com]

I was wondering if anyone out there does their own embossing?
I'm pretty new to it... basically just using my heat tool to melt the powder thats on top of the stamp.
I was wondering if anyone had a website with any good tips for embossing
OR
if you have any embossing tips of your own.

Below is the stamp that I'll be embossing.


thanks in advance!
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