Thursday, March 20, 2008

Materials You Can Carve

Anything your heart desires and your blade will go through! Some of the ones I have tried are: Speedball pink Mastercarve, Speedball original (crumbly at times - least favorite), PZKut (favorite), Safety Cut (Nasco, Dick Blick), Mars Staedtler Grand erasers, Staedtler Marscarve (formerly sold under name of Uncle Walters- very soft, buttery texture), SoftKut or EZCut (see Dick Blick or Chaselle), novelty store vinyl erasers such as $100 dollar bill, 1" cubes, etc. Check out the links on the left for information on ordering these and other materials and supplies.

Other inks: you can use just about anything you use with regular rubber stamps including pigment inks and markers. Some carvers use acrylic paints and fabric inks to stamp fabric and clothing items. I've even stamped with bleach! The sky's the limit!!

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