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21 February 2008

Please don't judge me.

Awhile ago I promised that I would share my attempts at block printing with you, whether they were or were not successful. That promise, combined with a personal resolution to stop being afraid of looking like an idiot in front of other people, lead me to share the following -- my first, really embarrassing attempt at carving for block printing:

Now, hopefully some of you are saying to yourselves, "Self, what's she talking about? That looks awesome!" Well, that's what I was thinking until I'd gotten that far (which is to say, almost done, after about 30-45 minutes of meticulous carving), and started thinking about how great it was going to be when I stamped this onto the envelopes I'd made out of grocery sacks. And then it hit me in a flash -- those words should be backwards.
ARGGGGG!!!!
So I stopped carving, inked up what I had so far, and stamped it onto another piece of rubber.

After another 30-45 minutes, I finally came up with this:

Which happily yields this:

which is exactly what I was going for. :-)
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4 comments:

  1. NormanThursday, February 21, 2008 3:08:00 PM

    I think it's very brave of you to admit the error. Plus, the final result is sweet!

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  2. JennyFriday, February 22, 2008 6:41:00 PM

    Looks great! :-)

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  3. Paula BFriday, February 29, 2008 8:57:00 AM

    I started laughing the minute I saw that print block because I've done EXACTLY THE SAME THING. Only I didn't catch it right away, and ended up wasting a bunch of really expensive ink and paper.

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  4. DoratheaMonday, March 03, 2008 4:53:00 PM

    I didn't catch on until you said the words should be backwards. Then I laughed at myself. The finished product does look great. I'm impressed!

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