What a compliment! Thanks, Upixel.

Your stuff is cool too. :-)

Photoshop faux-stamp are one thing but in the spirit of the competition, it was only fair to actually hand make it. That was easier thought than done.

Years of making foam-core presentation boards has left me pretty handy with the X-Acto knife. Today I found out the difference between slicing paper vs. rubber. It should have taken minutes to do the stamp; it took hours. The pliability of the rubber is a pretty awesome property...except when you are trying to cut it with a very rusty knife. (It's Sunday. Everything closed.) It took a poke-lift-poke cut to extract the negative space. Four hours later...and my fingers and thumb are still numb.

Technical Notes: The letters had to be flipped-over in print. Illustrator. Tried carving a potato first. That got messy quick. Hunted around for a sturdy, spongy, slice-able material around the house. Found an old inner tire tube. Glued the flipped letters on it and eventually got the separate pieces. The print was at 256pt. It was too small. Should have used a 512pt print. Searched the house for a thing to mount the rubber stamp. Found these 'put the right shape in the right hole' shapes in the discarded toys from when the kids were little. They even had handy grab-knobs on them. Perfect. Glued the rubber on and waited while it all dried. All our current digital cameras are out of order these days. Then I remembered an old forgotten CyberShot that only works on power. Luckily, anal-retentive organization allows me to know where things are usually. Borrowed mom's oil paints and an old dark background shirt. Paint. Stamp. Click. Click. Grab. Edit. Post.

Whew! What an interactive experience. This is the first time I've taken fontstruct live. Awesome! Thanks.