Posted by Hero Arts
on June 14, 2023
We have a fun feature for you today! Paging our woodblock stamps – please come forward and step into the spotlight. You are timeless classics and your crisp impressions make our red-rubber-loving hearts happy. ❤ It's your time to shine.
Now please join us in welcoming our good friend Amy Tsuruta to the blog, enjoy some lovely inspiration, and learn more about "Woodblock Wednesday"!
Do you have a stash of woodblock stamps? Every month I post projects for Woodblock Wednesday and I’m excited to collaborate with Hero Arts! Today I’m sharing two projects that feature fabulous Hero Arts woodblock stamps. First up, a bit of background regarding Woodblock Wednesday .
I decided to start a monthly feature that would inspire me and others to use their woodblock stamps. The projects that have been shared have been amazing and I always enjoy reading the backstory of stamps that are used. I’d love for you to link up a newly created project that features a woodblock stamp over
on my blog
.
Today I’m featuring two new Hero Arts woodblock stamps:
•
Go Left
•
Live and Let Love
Here’s how I was inspired:
My first project features:
•
Go Left
•
Designer Woodgrain
My overall color palette for both projects is:
• Granite
• Dove White
One of my all time favorite stamps is the
Designer Woodgrain
. The beauty of woodblock stamps is how they stamp perfect impressions every time. I did tone on tone stamping with the Designer Woodgrain. The
Go Left
sentiment has been
heat embossed in white
on
Granite
cardstock. I cut the sentiment with the
Rounded Rectangle Infinity Dies
.
My other project features:
•
Live and Let Love
•
Flowering Nasturtium
I wanted to add a pop of color so I used
Neon Orange
ink (direct to paper) to add another paper panel layer. The
Flowering Nasturtium
has been stamped with
Granite
ink on the
Granite
panel. The sentiment has been heat embossed in white and cut with the
Nesting Circle Infinity Dies
.
A big thank you to Hero Arts for letting me share the Woodblock Wednesday fun with you!
A big thank you to Amy for sharing her creations with us today, and for continuing to share the love of red rubber woodblock stamps! They will forever have a big place in our hearts at Hero Arts!
Have you ever wondered how rubber stamps are made? Here's a video overview of the process, explained by our fearless leader, Aaron. We make these beautiful red rubber stamps right at our facility in Richmond, California!
Because we're feeling all the love of woodblock today, we want to share some of that love with you! Please leave a comment telling us whether you've ever stamped with a woodblock stamp. We'll randomly pick one comment to win a prize pack of the stamps Amy featured today! Please comment by Sunday, June 18 at 11:59pm PT, and we'll post the winner here on the blog.
Be sure to visit Amy's post, and participate in Woodblock Wednesday !
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46 comments
I do have lots of woodblock stamps but they don’t get used much. This blog may inspire me to pull them out.
Yes, I have a lot of wood block stamps that I still use.
Woodblock Wednesday is a brilliant idea! I love to participate and ink up my vintage woodblock stamps ☺️
Lovely cards, Amy! Thank you so much for the wonderful inspiration.
I used to own many, many woodblock stamps. Most of them were made by Hero Arts. I sold off my entire wood-mounted stamp collection before I moved aboard a sailboat and went cruising (along with everything else I owned; the stamps weren’t the only casualty of that adventure). I really and truly miss my wood-mounted stamps, which I far, far, FAR prefer over clear stamps. I would like to buy more of them, but I still don’t have enough space for them even though I’m not living aboard a sailboat any longer. So for now, I will try to be content with my small collection of clear stamps.
Thanks for the fun giveaway and also for making amazing old school wood-mounted stamps available. I am glad to know I’ll still be able to get them when I am able to buy more of them.
Fabulous projects Amy!!! I’m so glad this challenge was started.