Working out whether and if so where to carve a little bit more on this stamp to \u00a0suggest some feathers. I printed a couple of test prints of this stamp and used graphite\u2019s reflectivity to help me figure this out. (I don\u2019t have a white pencil with me and this does erase rather nicely, as it turns out.) Tilting my page back and forth to make it visible\/less visible, then erasing\/editing and trying again. Then tried using the iPhone and tilting that instead of the page!<\/p>\n
It kind of worked!<\/p>\n
Wow, that stamp looks HUGE. In reality it’s the size of one of those smallish post-it notes, about 1.5 by 2 inches.\u00a0<\/p>\n
I wanted to post this to you guys first, but I don\u2019t have a Vimeo account and I don\u2019t like YouTube… \u00a0But now I’m on my laptiop and it turns out I can put in the instagram link!<\/p>\n
Um… but testing it …. I am SO not sure that’s going to show up correctly for you. Is the patreon site trimming it to rectangular?\u00a0<\/p>\n
Oh well.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Not to mention that I don\u2019t really know yet how to make videos. \u00a0So <\/em>much to learn!<\/p>\n Luckily, I then made a bunch of cards \u00a0so I didn’t spend the day feeling only <\/em>curiously clueless. The cards are selling in a small steady trickle, so my To-Do list includes now “find more places to sell them”. Yay!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Working out whether and if so where to carve a little bit more on this stamp to \u00a0suggest some feathers. I printed a couple of test prints of this stamp and used graphite\u2019s reflectivity to help me figure this out. 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