Folk Art Spring Flower Rubber Stamp

Spring flowers will be coming up

soon here in Iowa, and I thought I would

get a jump start by carving a 

folk art style rubber stamp flower.

This one is a nice size at around

2 1/2 inches by 1 3/4 inches.

I will be looking forward to seeing 

the first blooms of Spring soon, though,

in the garden off of my Sun-room!  

Here is an image that I never thought

of carving into a rubber stamp until someone requested it for

a logo. In my shop on etsy, Sparrow Foot Stamps, I have

many different hand carved rubber stamps, and 

I also offer custom logo designs, like the example above!

It is like an adventure when someone asks me

to design something for them. It gives me a thrill that I can't describe.

It is often something that I have never thought of carving into a 

rubber stamp before. So it can be a challenge to 

design something, but it is a good challenge and

I love the process of it all. From the original drawing

to the hand carving of the stamp, and the printing of it!

I enjoy making something that can be so

usable and still very artistic!

Rubber stamp carvings are so individual, just

 like the people that I carve them for!

Uncle Bud

 

My very first post!

This blog is dedicated to rubber stamp carvings,

 primarily,but also prints made from other 

types of carvings now and then.

This is a print from a rubber stamp carving I recently finished 

of my Uncle Bud, a fabulous wood carver, now retired at 90.

When he was cleaning out some of his supplies and unfinished 

starts I noticed he was going to throw a half finished bird, a Robin , I think, away! I couldn't bear the thought. And now it sits in my kitchen and I love looking at it-and thinking of him- every time I walk by.

 Sometimes little things like that are so important, a little thread that connects us to the ones that we love so dearly. I know if he wasn't stricken with Alzheimer's he would still be carving and would most likely have loved creating hand carved images on rubber, too.