This week I made 12 new Hanzi- Chinese character stamps. Each one comes with a card with the pronunciation and the meaning . Hopefully they will go well at the Farmers’ market this Saturday, July 18.
Archives for July 2009
Have you ever used your pencil in this way?
Do you know each pencil is with a tiny rubber-stamp? Buy a rainbow ink pad and play with your child.
New Rubber Blocks coming
This is the second time I’ve offered speedy-cut (speed ball) from America. It is my favorite rubber block. Really as smooth as a butter. The only thing is it is too soft to carve details such as letters. So for most of the order-made stamp cases I will use another rubber-SEED made by Japan. This speedy-cut is [...]
What’s new this week.
A part of my new works this week. Small stamps mounted by wood blocks. ( 2.5cm x 2.5cm) Some are based on the Japanese traditional family crests-Kamon. I also have some new stamps like butter fly and the animals’ silhouettes . See you at the Market!
The picture banned
In August 2008, I built a community on douban.com called ” We love Rubber Stamps”. Today we have 1445 members. We are very enthusiastic about handmade rubber stamps, we show our works and share information and everything about stamps there. This is my 2008 new year card, the first picture uploaded in our album. It is carved by [...]
Bear and Fish
There is a Chinese saying: you can’t have a fish and a bear in the same time. Pretty much like : you can’t have a cake and eat it too. But this is an opposite satuation : you CAN have a fish and a bear in the same time! Well, to the bear’s point of [...]
Three Monkeys
See no evil, hear no evil and speak no evil. And the opposite – see everything, hear everything and speak everything! ( in a good meaning)
Coasters
I’ve just bought a sewing machine and I am glad to find the connection between fabric and stamps. These coasters are printed by my stamps, using Tsukineko ink pad (versacraft) for fabric. They are washable.
Japanese Fan
I ordered some paper fans from Japan and stamped on them. They are different from each other. So far I’ve never seen anyone here using a paper fan in summer, but it works!
