I’m obsessed with rubber stamps, and I have a plastic bin filled with ones I’ve collected over the past five years. My favorite ones are: a heart, a fish, a patterned square, a ‘thank you’, and a lil cloud. I go back and forth with the leaves and tiny trees. I use them on zines, notebooks and planner, and of course, stationary. For a while now I’ve wanted to make my own, and build my own collection of DIY stamps. I recently saw a few videos on Tiktok of linoleum printing that got me inspired, and a bought beginner's kit to try it out.

Project #1 goes to rubber stamps :)

The first thing I did when I opened the box was figure out how to set up the line cutters. Once I had that done, I grabbed a rubber block, and went straight into it. I knew that I’d eventually watch a tutorial or two, but I wanted to feel it out and see what could happen if I just messed with the different cutters. I wanted to see what kind of lines each would make, and how differently they’d feel. Right now #1 is my favorite. I made lines that turned into a pattern, and I used #1 to draw one of go-to’s: overlapping mountains. I drew lines below, and added more lines inside. That was one of the first ones I’ve made, and my favorite one so far.

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