Introduction To Stamps Making Part 2


“There are about 10-15 large to medium sized businesses in the UK that are producing stamps of all kinds all day every day. Many smaller businesses exist producing just a few daily”

Business stamps are normally offered by stationers or direct from the maker. Trendy stamps include address stamps and one line check stamps. A few artists have been using such stamps to decorate their pieces of art for special effects.

Art stamps have turn out to be stylish in the United States, more so than in Europe. While they are more often than not regarded as children’s toys in Europe, in the U.S. they are obtainable in many complicated designs and are extensively used to decorate a variety of items.

business_stampsSuch art stamps can be used for simple beautification of useful things like paper for letters, greeting cards and similar things, but also can be united with other techniques to fashion customary art.

As nylon stamping more and more gains attractiveness, mostly in the United States, it also gains a name as an art form. Contributors choose to cut up their own rubber stamps or expose their own nylon stamps. Companies like Speedball or Master Carve even provide carving sets to amateurs wishing to engrave their own nylon/rubber stamps, with some counting linocut tools. This special rubber is well-liked because of its effortlessness of use. It can imitate woodcuts, but is hardly ever used this way. The print from the engraved rubber stamp is viewed as work of art on its own, or one or more stamps are used to decorate a work of art with other constituents.

small_business_stampsOther materials alongside rubber may be used to create a toy stamp. Woodcut and linocut are art forms rooted in the same principles. Rubber carving material is obtainable in Europe, but it’s marketed as a children’s toy and not extensively used.

There are more than a few possibilities to differ the glance of those works. Paints, pigments and dye inks all produce different effects, making bigger the use of rubber stamping from paper to fabrics, wood, metal, glass, and so on. Special inks pads can be bought that let for embossing and there are markers that can be used to ink stamp pads with a diversity of colors for a multi-color seem. Mixed medium possibilities are never-ending.

toy_stampEngraved stamps are vastly used in toy industry for children. It has been observed that kids like to print different images and patterns on different surfaces and thus they get pleasure and fun alongside the practice of their home work. Nylon/rubber stamp industry is widely working for kids across the world.