Stamp Carving Bonanza

Been doing stamp carving out or rubber materials since December last year. I started this hobby to help me relax myself from my regular work and freelance works. Stamp carving had helped me soothe my stress away and had help me to concentrate on doing one thing at a time since by nature I'm more of a multi-tasker. My intricate designs were inspired by Ms. Cynthia Arres, a Filipino Illustrator, I was looking for a tutorial using Xacto knife, when I stumbled her very useful and practical step by step guide in her blog.

 Since then I have already made maybe more than 20 stamps from easy to complicated design. Hoping to practice more to be able to carve lettering and intricate works more defined.

Here are some of my recent works and some commissioned works

 

Mini Workshop: 1 on 1

Last week, my best friend told me that her mom is interested in learning how to carve a rubber stamp; because I gave my friend a personalized rubber stamp (made from simple eraser) as a gift last christmas. She (my best friend's mom) was thinking that it would be a good hobby to do, so I accepted and said that I would be very delighted to be able to share my knowledge on rubber stamping. 

So we arranged to have our mini 1 on 1 workshop at their house yesterday, at first I was a bit awkward because it is the first that I would teach other people about my knowledge and thoughts on stamp carving. Truthfully, I'm still not an expert on this hobby because up until now I'm just using Xacto cutter and box cutter as my tools and not the usual Speedball Linoleum cutter, because for me it is still expensive and I still need to save some money to buy it; also here in the Philippines, Speedball products are still not readily available in the market. But hopefully in the future I may be able to buy one and be able to make a rubber stamp design out of it (fingers crossed....x x). 

Wanted: Organization....

Have you ever wondered how other people manage to do their works smoothly and organized? How other students finish their homework on time or even ahead of time? or even how others seems to remember all the things that they needed to do in so little time?

When I was in 3rd year high school, a guest speaker from one of the seminar had given an advice regarding on this topic; on how to organize or even improve your management skills. The only thing that he suggested is to have a PLANNER, start writing down things that you want to remember to do, it is like a to do list. 

Thinking of blogging something worth reading... what can it be?

After watching Julie and Julia the movie, it had occurred to me that I wanted to revive my blog again and that I wanted to contribute something worth reading for a change. Blogging for me felt like it is somewhat my stress reliever. I have read an article one time saying that writing something that makes you feel good in a diary or blog can help relieve stress and can even help in LOSING WEIGHT!? Can you even believe it! 

If this is true, it is worth a try. I'll start writing good stuffs here in my blog, and hope to be able to eventually captivate and help other people in someways. 

Till next time... be able to Hope, Love and Inspire!

M