Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Artistamp

Emilie sent me a little traveling postcard for artistamps a few months back. It's from Friend & Faux. I've never made an artistamp before but I've always been super interested in them! I started working on one a few days ago and went down to Kinko's to print it today.


I scanned in the pterodactyl image & the diamond shape. To celebrate my upcoming 26th birthday, I decided to make the stamp worth 26 cents! I wish I had pre-gummed paper to print these stamps on.


I've read about using a sewing machine to make faux-perforations so I attempted to do that with a bad print batch. After a few attempts, I gave up. I have no idea how people sew in a straight line. No clue.


I have a some "paper shapers" scissors and tried a few out to see what would come closest to a faux-perforation. This was the closest I could get!


My artistamp on the postcard!

Is anyone interested in receiving this to add their own stamp? I don't want to send it out to someone who doesn't want to participate!


I also finished my zine today! Copies & all. Except I don't own a stapler.

6 comments:

  1. I would love to add an artistamp to that postcard and pass it on! And I totally hear you on the sewing in straight lines thing. I'm pretty sure it can't be done. Or it's unnatural. Yes. That's it.

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    1. Yay! Thanks for stepping up to take this neato artistamp project off my hands :) I'll send it your way soon! (I did send a letter to you a week or so ago, hope you've received it!)

      For seriously, someone needs to do a How-To on sewing in a straight line.

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    2. Oh yes, your letter has arrived. And it is beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeautiful. I'm always a fan of doilies and random black and white photos of old dudes. Currently it's sitting on top of the "seriously, I should reply to this sometime soon" pile, where I can admire it daily.

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    3. Sweeeeeeet. I have a similar reply pile!

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  2. That is so awesome! Also looking forward to the zine. ;)

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    1. Thanks! You'll definitely be getting a copy of the zine :)

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