Hand Carved Stamp - Sender's Choice

In this swap you will make one hand carved stamp for your partner that is at least 1 inch x 1 inch in size (or 3/4 inch x 1.5 inch, in case you're using the staedtler erasers). This swap is sender's choice so you cannot rate down if you're not completely in love with the design you get.

Senders are more than welcome to make a stamp based on their partner's profile, if they'd like, but it's not required ... You may test your carved stamp by stamping it with some ink to see how it looks but (if you can) try using light/white or non-permanent stamp ink.

And when you mail your stamp out, you will need to make sure you have it padded well enough so that it doesn't break during the mailing. Writing "fragile" or "do not bend" on your package is suggested. Do not just mail these out in paper envelopes as it might not survive the entire shipment.

You can use:

• White erasers (like the ones from Pentel and Staedtler)
• Carving blocks like the Staedtler Carving Blocks, Speedball Speedy Carve Blocks or Speedball Speedy Cut block

You cannot use:

• cork
• potato
• pink erasers

If you've never made a hand-carved stamp before, you can view some stamp-carving tutorials HERE and HERE (the flickr tutorial continues here)

If this swap goes well, I plan to host a few more hand-carved stamp swaps with different themes (including one that is profile based.)

Ratings requirements:

• Must have at least a 4.9 with NO 1's or unexplained 3's in the past 6 months.
• Must have completed at least 7 package/type 3 swaps and must be rated for them.

• You cannot have a bunch of recent late send ratings.

• This swap is not for swap-bot newbies but it IS available to hand-carved stamp newbies with the understanding that you will try your VERY best in making a stamp for your partner.

swap image was borrowed from the eraser stamp tutorial on Geninne's Art Blog

some of the ideas for this swap were borrowed from @MrsMJ 's Hand carved stamp swap, but I changed a few things for my own swap and added new rules & req's.