Post #177153 by Sideshow Stamps on Wed, Aug 3, 2005 7:58 PM

Thanks everyone for the compliments!

In reply to Chongolio ~
My husband and I draw the designs with pen and ink and then I scan them and shrink them down to the size I want the rubber stamps to be. I then combine all the images on one 8 1/2 x 11" sheet of paper and we send that to the manufacturer.
From there they have a fancy machine that reads the black and white images as a negative and after a week or so, it creates a reversed/raised version of the images called a matrix board. Then from that, they press the matrix board into metal and create an engraving of our image page. Then they pour the rubber into the engraving and we get the rubber stamps back in the form of a sheet just like the paper one we sent in.

I think that's the jist of it.
Interesting huh?!
I'm glad we just do the drawing side of it all... Whew!!

It's really fun being able to create something cool out of drawings we did of things we love, like tikis and the whole atomic age culture!
; )
Happy Tiki Talking,
Jennifer