Gertie Jaquet in Amsterdam, The Netherlands is making a Stamp a Day.
Why did you decide to do this project? I'm a children's book illustrator who loves making stamps.
For many years I've been making them, just to relax between my illustration commissions, but I thought time had come to show them to the world. I like the personal challenge of this everyday project.
How has doing a yearlong/daily project affected your life? Many different stamping themes came to me during the year, some better than others, but many of them I would never have discovered without this 365 days project.
All the nice reactions I have got, sheered me up and stimulated me to go on.
I'm doing a lot of stamp carving workshops with people who have seen my blog and want to make their own stamps.
More and more I am using stamps in my illustration work.
Here an example from a flamenco fairy tale picture book I'm working on:
On holidays a 356 project can be a bit tricky, but luckily my daughter showed me how to program blog-post for many days in advance!
See all of Gertie's stamps HERE.
Why did you decide to do this project? I'm a children's book illustrator who loves making stamps.
For many years I've been making them, just to relax between my illustration commissions, but I thought time had come to show them to the world. I like the personal challenge of this everyday project.
How has doing a yearlong/daily project affected your life? Many different stamping themes came to me during the year, some better than others, but many of them I would never have discovered without this 365 days project.
All the nice reactions I have got, sheered me up and stimulated me to go on.
I'm doing a lot of stamp carving workshops with people who have seen my blog and want to make their own stamps.
More and more I am using stamps in my illustration work.
Here an example from a flamenco fairy tale picture book I'm working on:
On holidays a 356 project can be a bit tricky, but luckily my daughter showed me how to program blog-post for many days in advance!
See all of Gertie's stamps HERE.
