Book NEW Carve Stamp Play Designing Creating Custom Stamps

Description

Title: "Carve, Stamp, Play: Designing and Creating Custom Stamps"
Author: Julie Fei-Fan Balzer
Category: Crafts/Mixed Media
ISBN: 978-1596688865
Book Type: High Quality Paperback
Condition: New
Pages: 144 pages
Publisher: Interweave
Year: 2013
Language: English
Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.5" x 10.2"
Weight: 18 ounces
Publishers Original Price: .99
Quantity: 1 book
About Book:
Take an exciting journey into printing with custom-carved stamps! In this complete stamp-carving workshop, Julie Fei-Fan Balzer covers every aspect of creating and using rubber stamps, including carving linear and curved designs, alphabets, complex and repeating geometrical shapes, and image transfers.
After carving your own unique stamps, you'll also learn:
How to combine and layer stamps into original designs.
How to design stamps that work together as well as individually.
How to create stamps that combine with or enhance other stamps (hand carved or commercial).
And how to create complex, layered effects that resemble screen printing.
This book also includes simple projects that explore various applications for stamping, including printing on different surfaces such as fabric, leather, paper, and canvas. Find your "authentic" design voice and get carving today!
About Author:
Julie Fei-Fan Balzer is a self-taught mixed media collage artist. She has been published in many magazines including Cloth Paper Scissors, Quilting Arts Gifts, and Quilt Scene. Julie has made several instructional videos, and currently designs stencils for The Crafter's Workshop.
She is a painter and mixed media artist. She currently authors the “Adventures in Arting” column in Cloth Paper Scissors Magazine, hosts a bi-monthly podcast by the same name, and is the co-host of Scrapbook Soup TV on PBS. She teaches art classes around the world as well as online and through hour-long instructional DVDs. Julie also designs products such as stamps and stencils for the craft industry and consults on product development. She lives in a tiny apartment with a big art studio in the middle of New York City.
Editorial Reviews:
"If you like printing and stitching, check out this book. It's top notch." --The Grand Rapids Press.
"The author is generous in sharing details of the brands she prefers, of websites where you can download free designs and how to achieve little details to make your designs more unique. For each design there are examples of how the stamps have been used for book covers, tags and jewellery. I particularly liked the method of creating your own stamps from photographs." --Workshop on the Web.
Reviews From Verified Purchases:
"I love this book! It's a very in depth course on creating your own stamps. The book starts off with the basics and then progresses to more complex designs. She covers alphabets, simple designs, faux woodcut stamps and interlocking and layered stamps. The icing on the cake, though, for me is the inclusion of how to take a photograph of a person and make that image into a stamp. How fun is that! I have been waiting for a while for this book to be released and I have to tell you, it does not disappoint!"
"Fantastic book by Julie Fei-Fan Balzer. I took her online course, Stamp Carving 101, which was really helpful. The book serves to reinforce her teaching demos, and provides a little more information."
"If you are new to rubber stamp carving Julie makes this soooo... easy. Everything you need to know, explained in great detail is in this book. Supplies you will need and why you need them are listed. There is clip art you can actually copy so your first stamps will turn out like the authors. Tons of big pictures and clear directions. You can't help but succeed. If I could give this more than 5 stars I would."
"I have followed Ms. Balzer's blog for some years and enjoy her work a lot.
When I pre-ordered her book I wasn't sure how it would turn out. There have been times in the past when I have enjoyed people's work, and then they produce a book - and it turns out to be a disappointment in one way or another.
I am happy to say that this is NOT the case with this delightful book! It's a great book!
It's well done, well thought out, well illustrated, and it is beautifully photographed! It's a whimsical, easy to follow joy ride through the fascinating, art-full world of creating your own stamps and artwork. There are lots of tips and tricks included with the basic directions."
"This book is a great place to start carving stamps, but there is plenty in the pages to tantalize even well seasoned stamp carvers. It's a well done winner that's sure to please!"
"I love this book! Julie gives detailed directions for carving stamps, she gives you suggestions gives examples so that using your own ideas you can progress to your own original stamps. I have other stamp books and they are nice. This book is great in that it shows the process and gives great tips and tricks."
"Julie starts from the very basics and then continues to go into more complex designs. Of course it takes a lot of practice to get as good at carving as she is, but I have a handful of hand carved stamps which is something I never thought I could do. In fact, just writing this review is inspiring me to get out my blocks and try to make some more."
"It has been great guidance for me to beging carving rubber stamps. Photos are great and most helpful. I would recommend this book if you are a beginner stamp carver."
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