Tesseract Medallion Rubber Stamps Now Available

They look great! (If we say so ourselves...)

Finally got them up on our Etsy and eBay shops. More details about the specs are there.

We will also be making partial unmounted and cling mounted sets from this sheet available in the future.

Loden designed these with clay/metal clay pendants in mind. I made some jewelry in the lead up to FaerieCon using air dry clay and some of our other stamps, so Loden thought we should have some smaller stamps for the purpose. Unfortunately, the vulcanizer wasn't able to get us the sheets in time for the show, but we are looking forward to using them...

Happy crafting!

Clear polymer squid ... stamps!

A prototype - not in production yet...

Cuttlefish

Our ocean-themed stamp sheet has been delayed, but not forgotten.

I think I have a final version of a cuttlefish that will be included (above), along with the squid and shell images. Loden is gathering some seaweed elements as well.

Part of the delay has to do with the fact that we both have many ideas for ocean-themed images, as well as older artwork that can be reworked for stamps. So deciding how to group the images and which images to work on first slowed the process down a bit. Needless to say, we will definitey have more ocean-themed stamps in the future!

Layout...

Working on sizing and layout for the next Celtic knot work stamp sheet. All Loden's work.

Squids

Loden showed me a new way to "clean up" images to prep them for stamp sheets. It is great, but it doesn't seem to have cut down on the time it takes me. Really, much of the time spent is due to the irresistible urge to keep changing little things, here and there. A curve, width or slant of a limb, etc.


This squid image, at least, is done. The images on the left will be the stamp images. The ones on the right are reverse-value to see, roughly, how each stamp would look on velvet or stamped light on dark.

I still have to clean up one more squid image. We have an image of a cuttlefish that will probably be included as well. Between the two of us we also have sea weed, shells, a sand dollar and a horseshoe crab. We will have to play with sizing and layout to see what makes the cut.

Other ocean elements

A couple more draft versions of works in progress.

Celtic knotwork in the works

Loden is currently working on a range of Celtic knotwork designs for stamp sets. Here is a shot of one, in progress.

Squid-dle-y doo

Drafts

I have been grabbing time here and there to work on an ocean-themed stamp sheet and have been caught up in an image of a squid. Questions about size, detail, how much "artistic license" to take in order to make it work as a velvet or clay stamp. An earlier version had much longer arms, but squid arms are not as long as those of octopi, in relation to the body.

Hope to wrap this up today, as I have many other ocean elements to get to. Want to get sheets into production before the ad comes out in Rubber Stamp Madness.