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aliensunset.bsky.social
i think this will be the last #aliensSummerStamps post...

Zine is up and available for purchase in my Ko-Fi Shop!
ko-fi.com/alien_suns...

thanks to everyone who voted in my polls and commented on posts. this whole project was a ton of fun!

#stampCarving #Zine #zines
a hand holding the cover down on a small 1/8 single page folded zine. the cover says: “Alien’s Summer Stamps”, then: “a pink eraser stamp carving project” under it, then “Summer 2025” and “#aliensSummerStamps” at the bottom a photo collage of four pictures showing the inner pages of a small 1/8 size folded mini zine. the first page is all text, but the rest are all hand stamped images: a mushroom, a cat, a leafy vine, an oak leaf with acorns, a cauldron with feathery wings, a koi fish, a peacock feather, a burrowing owl with its head tilted sideways, a starfield with a shooting star, a bumblebee super imposed on a grouping of hexagons, a cassette tape, and a cute snail
August 26, 2025 at 3:36 PM
aliensunset.bsky.social
woo!
an #aliensSummerStamps mini zine!

got some new stamp pads so i can be all fancy!

i dunno if this is a thing or not, but would anyone be interested in getting a copy of the zine?
I'm hand stamping each one, so will probably only make up a small handful if i do offer them up.

#stampCarving
a hand holding the cover down on a small 1/8 single page folded zine. the cover says: “Alien’s Summer Stamps”, then: “a pink eraser stamp carving project” under it, then “Summer 2025” and “#aliensSummerStamps” at the bottom a photo collage of four pictures showing the inner pages of a small 1/8 size folded mini zine. the first page is all text, but the rest are all hand stamped images: a mushroom, a cat, a leafy vine, an oak leaf with acorns, a cauldron with feathery wings, a koi fish, a peacock feather, a burrowing owl with its head tilted sideways, a starfield with a shooting star, a bumblebee super imposed on a grouping of hexagons, a cassette tape, and a cute snail
August 21, 2025 at 8:01 PM
aliensunset.bsky.social
An #aliensSummerStamps family portrait

Thought it would be fun to show everything together.

I’m also working on making a little mini zine to show them off, but I’m waiting for some (hopefully) better stamp pads to arrive to finish that off.

#stampCarving
Twelve hand carved pink eraser stamps grouped together image side up with ink still on them to make the images more visible. They are: a mushroom, a cat, a leafy vine, an oak leaf with acorns, a couldron with feathery wings, a koi fish, a peacock feather, a burrowing owl with its head tilted sideways, a starfeild with a shooting star, a bumblebee super imposed on a grouping of hexagons, a cassette tape, and a cute snail Several sheets of notepaper with hand stamped images on them. They are: a mushroom, a cat, a leafy vine, an oak leaf with acorns, a couldron with feathery wings, a koi fish, a peacock feather, a burrowing owl with its head tilted sideways, a starfeild with a shooting star, a bumblebee super imposed on a grouping of hexagons, a cassette tape, and a cute snail A photo of the cover of a one page folded mini zine with the title: “Alien’s Summer Stamps”, then: “a pink eraser stamp carving project” under it, then “Summer 2025” and “#aliensSummerStamps” at the bottom
August 16, 2025 at 4:38 PM
aliensunset.bsky.social
sorry for the delay, apparently my video was too powerful for mastodon and I had to upload it to YouTube

youtu.be/5mpeHmrqjQI

please excuse the crappy quality, i kept getting too into the carving and moving it closer to myself and out of frame.

#aliensSummerStamps #stampCarving
carving a pink eraser into a snail stamp
YouTube video by aliensunset
youtu.be
August 14, 2025 at 4:34 PM
aliensunset.bsky.social
Snail

Ta dah!!
Cute little fun snail to finish off #aliensSummerStamps!

I even made a (crappy) time lapse! (see next post)

This was a lot of fun y’all!

I’ve ordered the rest of the linocut supplies so keep your eyes out for more cool stamps and prints in the future!

#stampCarving
A photo of a piece of note paper with a image stamped on it and the hand carved eraser stamp placed above it, image side up. The image is of a small with a spiral shell and little tifts of grass around it
August 14, 2025 at 4:00 PM
aliensunset.bsky.social
Casette tape

This one was fun! A challenge to see how much detail and how thin i could get the lines.

#stampCarving #aliensSummerStamps
A photo of a piece of note paper with a image stamped on it and the hand carved eraser stamp placed above it, image side up. The image is a line art of a cassette tape with two accent lines on either side
August 12, 2025 at 7:04 PM
aliensunset.bsky.social
Bumblebee

This one was tricky, i ended up doing multiple proofs and fixes, and while it’s far from perfect, I’m really happy with how it turned out.

#stampCarving #aliensSummerStamps
#Bumblebee
A photo of a piece of note paper with an image stamped on it and the hand carved eraser stamp placed above it, image side up. The image is a top down view of a fuzzy bumblebee with wings outstretched superimposed on three nested hexagons with one more on either side
August 10, 2025 at 7:51 PM
aliensunset.bsky.social
I’m afraid I may be a bit over ambitious with this one.
Tiny details are super difficult because my tools are only so small.
I guess we’ll find out!

#stampCarving #aliensSummerStamps
Photo of a pink eraser ready for carving into a rubber stamp with a drawing transferred onto it and the slip of paper with the original drawing on it underneath. The drawing is of a detailed top down view of a bumblebee with wings outstretched on a background of hexagons
August 10, 2025 at 2:28 PM
aliensunset.bsky.social
next eraser rubber stamp poll is up
dice.camp/@Alien_Sunse...

if you want to see what I've already done, you can check out the #aliensSummerStamps tag!

#stampCarving
August 9, 2025 at 12:11 PM
aliensunset.bsky.social
Stars

A little difficulty with the tiny diamonds, and the eraser’s one end didn’t want to press flat nicely.

While I feel like I could have done better with the carving, I’m happy with the design itself, and perhaps will try it again in the future

#stampCarving #aliensSummerStamps
A price of note paper with a image stamped on it and a hand carved eraser stamp set upon it carved side up. The image is of a five pointed shooting star with a spiral spinning around it with many small and medium dots in it. To the back of the shooting star are several diamond shaped stars surrounded buy small cross shapes and in the upper corner a asterisk shaped star with longer top and bottom spikes
August 8, 2025 at 5:58 PM
aliensunset.bsky.social
next eraser rubber stamp poll is up
dice.camp/@Alien_Sunse...
only 4 erasers left!

if you want to add your ideas to the pool, you can reply to this post: bsky.app/profile/alie...

& if you want to see what I've already done, you can check out the #aliensSummerStamps tag!

#stampCarving
August 7, 2025 at 2:49 PM
aliensunset.bsky.social
Not bad!
I’ve kinda impressed myself.
There are a handful of things that I would fix now that I look at the picture, but overall I’m really happy with this one!

#stampCarving #aliensSummerStamps
#burrowingOwl
Photo of a piece of note paper with a stamped image on it and a hand carved eraser rubber stamp set on it face up. The image is of a small burrowing owl with its head tipped over 90 degrees sideways like an extreme confused dog head tilt
August 6, 2025 at 5:36 PM
aliensunset.bsky.social
Hoooo boy.

This one is going to be tricky… I make no promises that this one will turn out in any way useable

#stampCarving #aliensSummerStamps
Photo of a laptop screen showing a photo of a burrowing owl standing tall with its head turned on its side more 90 degrees like an extreme confused dog head tilt except that the owls expression appears more judgmental than confused. Even so it appears rather ridiculous in such an odd position with it’s feathers all askew due to the extreme angle. Propped against the screen is a small rectangular pink eraser with a mirror image sketch of the owl on it.
August 6, 2025 at 4:03 PM
aliensunset.bsky.social
next eraser rubber stamp poll is up
dice.camp/@Alien_Sunse...

if you want to add your ideas to the (swiftly dwindling) pool, you can reply to this post: bsky.app/profile/alie...

& if you want to see what I've already done, you can check out the #aliensSummerStamps tag!

#stampCarving
Alien_Sunset (@Alien_Sunset@dice.camp)
next eraser rubber stamp poll! if you want to add your ideas to the (swiftly dwindling) pool, you can reply to this post: https://dice.camp/@Alien_Sunset/114920035039857658 & if you want to see what...
dice.camp
August 5, 2025 at 3:29 PM
aliensunset.bsky.social
Feather

Feeling very meh about this one. Learned more about carving around lines and carving out white spaces, but not too happy how it turned out. Don’t think the squared sides do the design credit

#stampCarving #aliensSummerStamps
Photo of a hand carved pink eraser stamp face up on a piece of note paper next to its stamped image. The image is of a peacock feather with its thin filaments curling about around it
August 4, 2025 at 10:02 PM
aliensunset.bsky.social
the next eraser stamp prompt poll is up on masto here: dice.camp/@Alien_Sunse...

remember if you want to add your ideas to the pool, you can reply to this post: bsky.app/profile/alie...

and if you want to see what I've already done, you can check out the #aliensSummerStamps tag!

#stampCarving
Alien_Sunset (@Alien_Sunset@dice.camp)
time for the next eraser stamp prompt poll! remember if you want to add your ideas to the pool, you can reply to this post: https://dice.camp/@Alien_Sunset/114920035039857658 and if you want to see ...
dice.camp
August 3, 2025 at 11:49 AM
aliensunset.bsky.social
Speaking of stamps, thought it would be cool to post all the eraser stamps I’ve made so far.

#stampCaving #aliensSummerStamps
Six hand carved pink eraser rubber stamps: a mushroom, a sitting cat, a leafy vine, an oak leaf with acorns, a cauldron flying with feathery wings, and a swimming koi
August 2, 2025 at 4:38 PM
aliensunset.bsky.social
Koi fish

This one was tricky for all the little details i wanted, and it’s a touch wonky, but still came out pretty cool

#stampCarving #aliensSummerStamps
Photo of a small piece of note paper with a hand carved eraser stamp picture up laid on it and with the image stamped in yellow/orange. The image is of a splotchy koi fish in a curved swimming pose
August 2, 2025 at 2:01 PM
aliensunset.bsky.social
next eraser rubber stamp carving poll is live over on Masto:
dice.camp/@Alien_Sunse...
or reply to this post with your vote

Cassette Tape
Cormorant Underwater
Koi Fish
Unicorn

if you want to add your ideas to the pool you can reply here: bsky.app/profile/alie...

#stampCarving #aliensSummerStamps
July 31, 2025 at 12:54 PM
aliensunset.bsky.social
Flying Cauldron

The tiny format is kina frustrating, but I’m really pleased with how this came out.

#stampCarving #aliensSummerStamps
A piece of small notepaper with a hand carved eraser rubber stamp sitting image up and the image stamped in purple on the paper. The image is of a cauldron with outstretched feathery wings and steam rising from its contents. Motion lines indicate that it is flying unsteadily
July 30, 2025 at 7:08 PM
aliensunset.bsky.social
I'm posting my stamp carving subject polls over on Mastodon since I cant really do polls here.

if you are a weirdo like me with an account over there as well, feel free to vote!

dice.camp/@Alien_Sunse...

#stampCarving #aliensSummerStamps
Alien_Sunset (@Alien_Sunset@dice.camp)
it's time for a new eraser stamp carving poll! what do I carve next? (remember if you want to add your ideas to the pool, you can comment here: https://dice.camp/@Alien_Sunset/114920035039857658 ) ...
dice.camp
July 29, 2025 at 2:51 PM
aliensunset.bsky.social
Oak Leaf won!

this one came out a bit rougher than I hoped, but still pretty good.
also, my fingers are green now since my green stamp pad was tiny and crappy.
but totally worth it, I think!

#stampCarving #aliensSummerStamps #oakLeaf
Photo of a small notepad with a pink handled stamp carving tool set across the top and a pink eraser with an oak leaf and two acorns carved into it below. next to the stamp is it’s image stamped onto the pad in green ink
July 28, 2025 at 5:25 PM
aliensunset.bsky.social
ok! time for the first stamp carving poll!

since we can't do actual polls here, please reply with your vote

finger
oak leaf
flying cauldron
cassette tape

I'll be doing multiple Polls, so if you want to add your suggestion to the pool, you can do so at the quote

#stampCarving #aliensSummerStamps
aliensunset.bsky.social Alien_Sunset 💜 commissions perpetually open 🌈 @aliensunset.bsky.social · Jul 26
OK!

I need some little eraser sized stamp carving prompts!

give me a one or two word prompt; must contain at least one noun, please
multiple prompts per person allowed

after I get a bunch i'll pick my favorites and do a poll for you to pick my first stamp!

#stampCarving #aliensSummerStamps
July 27, 2025 at 5:54 PM
aliensunset.bsky.social
OK!

I need some little eraser sized stamp carving prompts!

give me a one or two word prompt; must contain at least one noun, please
multiple prompts per person allowed

after I get a bunch i'll pick my favorites and do a poll for you to pick my first stamp!

#stampCarving #aliensSummerStamps
July 26, 2025 at 2:36 PM
aliensunset.bsky.social
ok, so people want me to make stamps!

I have 9 erasers at the moment, so in a bit I'll collect some prompts and twice a week do a little poll and you can choose what I carve.
and If i'm still having fun after that, i'll get some more erasers!

#stampCarving #aliensSummerStamps
July 26, 2025 at 2:25 PM