Project 1 involved finally finishing my doomed Victorian baby carriage stamp. I say doomed because, more than any other stamp I've made, I knew from pretty much the outset that the print was not going to be good. On top of making a few bad cuts while carving the stamp, I also didn't take enough care in planning where the dark and light areas were going to be.
Not unrecognizable, but definitely not salable.Luckily, Project 2 - printing 100 new business cards - turned out considerably better.
Project 3 involved experimenting with a new product for the etsy shop. I bought some watercolour paper post cards a few weeks ago and haven't been able to get around to stamping them until this afternoon. I tried the french horn and power line stamps, but the heavily textured surface of the paper made it difficult to get a clear print. To my continued surprise, it was the rose stamp that again proved to be much better than I originally imagined. I started out with a single print, but then realized that filling the full card made for a much more interesting and pretty final product.
Even prettier in grey and pink... in my humble opinion.
The watercolour ones are beautiful! A different feel from the others.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Erin! I really like them too, but they're also really easy to mess up. For every one that I got right I think there are about 5 mess ups. I might not be an accountant, but I know I'm not going to get very far with that kind of success rate!
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