what is the procedure of making rubber stamp?

Question

what is the procedure of making rubber stamp / how to make rubber stamp manually

Answer 1

You can buy a blank stamp block from most craft stores. You'll want to draw your design on (in reverse if there are words!) and there are tools to carve out the "negative" space that you don't want inked. Some tools are beveled like a "V" for very detailed work, and others are like a soft "U" to carve out large areas.

Answer 2

There is always the "poor man" method too. Take a potato and cut in half. Draw your design on the potato and carve out the areas that are not part of the design. Ink and stamp. Can be a little messy but its a quick way to make a stamp at home and they can give really interesting effects-almost like a woodcut. If you are looking for a RUBBER stamp-actually rubber- the easiest way is to take your camera ready artwork to your local copy print shop. Might cost less than buying all the equipment to make a stamp at home...?

Answer 3

You can't *easily* make the kind of rubberstamp that has lots of *small* lines, but you can definitely make those that have larger lines.

That can be done by "carving" into or otherwise impressing things like white erasers, "linoleum" sheets, disposable foam plates, reusable foam sheets, and even hot glue.
Polymer clay can also be made into a stamp, or a mold, by impressing a rubberstamp into it or using other tools, if you want to use the resulting stamps mostly to make impressions in raw clay or similar materials, but they could also stamp on paper to some degree. Raw veggies and fruits are other possibilities (with acrylic paint, etc.), but the lines would have to be really large, or only the general outline shape would have to be used as the stamp.

You might want to check out more info on making stamps in those ways and more on this page:
http://glassattic.com/polymer/stamping.htm
(... click on OTHER WAYS OF MAKING STAMPS...)


You can also buy kits for making "real" stamps from rubber or from photopolymer, but they're expensive and aren't that easy to do.
Another approach would be to draw or photocopy whatever you want onto white paper (with very black lines), then send that off to a place like ReadyStamp or another rubberstamp-making shop for them to create the stamp(s):
For example: http://www.polyclay.com/ready.htm



HTH,

Diane B.