Letterboxing with AdventurousAcorn

We are almost a week out from the first of December, and it means that Carve December is quickly approaching. It seems like the perfect opportunity to revisit the product of Carve December in 2021. Carve December is hosted by Julie Fei-Fan Balzer @balzerdesigns on Instagram. Every day, you carve a stamp based on a prompt and share it on Instagram. It's an excellent way for the stamp carving community to gather and carve together. It's kind of funny how different everyone's brains work, and it really shows when you look back at what everyone's made. Last year was the first year I participated, and I'm looking forward to playing again this year. You can see last year's prompts by clicking on this link.  The images below are my final product in order of the day for 2021. My favorite of the carves would probably be day 9's carve: Jovial. It's a rather simple image, but it fits the prompt well. It's a beautiful flower and every time I look at it, I feel ...

It's really easy to carve an image from clip art or a drawing, but what about my personal photos. I've carved three images from pictures I've taken/someone has taken for me. These images end up being the most personal images that I have. All you need for this project is the Adobe Capture App and a photo you want to carve. Below is the process I used for carving an image of my mom's dog, Bruno, for the 2021 Carve December prompt, "Playful". 1. Select the photo you want to carve. The best photos for carving have a slightly higher contract and if you were to make the photo black and white, you wouldn't lose any of the information in the photo. This photo of Bruno could have been better! He's a similar color to the floor, so the app couldn't always differentiate him from the carpet. I ended up correcting this by carving a positive image and not giving him a body outline. 2. Open the Adobe Capture App and go to libraries. From there click the bubble in ...

  My mom is a second-grade teacher in the Stafford County Public School System. She loves teaching, even though parents and some kids can be difficult. I've made her a stamp before with a Monarch butterfly that read "Loveday" above it. That used to be her last name, but last year, she remarried, and her last name changed to "Bowles." She uses the stamps for her classroom books, and to mark items in her class as hers. It prevents confusion, especially at the end of the school year when she has to pack. She requested I make her a new Bowles stamp a few weeks ago, and I'm ready to share the final result! Though she only requested one, I decided to deliver two. The first, of course, is the Monarch butterfly. This image is different, however from the previous one because the name is displayed in the middle of the butterfly and not the top. It's much more elegant compared to the previous one (which was my first time seriously attempting lettering, by the way.)...