Copper Etching class at my Craft Club

OH MY GOSH — this has GOT to be THE coolest project — not to mention EASIEST — that I have ever learned at my craft club!!

Copper Etching using rubber (or acrylic) stamps with Stazon ink. Some kind of stinky poisionous chemical, water and baking soda. That’s all. No rubbing, no sanding no scrubbing… and my project (1st ever) came out PERFECT!!! YAY ME!!!   Now that I’m addicted to this NEW technique, I have to find that chemical and buy some copper blanks already to use!!!  Watch out etsy copper sellers, here I come!!!

copper etching june 2011

Spring Arts Guild March 2011 meeting – make your own stamps!

Oh, this is the coolest thing! The instructor, Cathy Prieto-Smith is such a GREAT teacher! So informative, so patient! She showed us the easiest way to make our own stamps with photopolymer paper.  I think we all got a work out on our arms from scrubbing the part we didn’t need off. Yes, now this a new addiction I have. I want to make more of my own custom stamps!!  I better hurry to purchase more of the photopolymer paper this month before my promise for April starts!

Spring Arts Guild rubber stamp class March 2011