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Rub a stamp to be smooth using a sand paper, a smooth glass and a little water. Don't touch the surface you have smoothed out.

Get a shape of a stamp using a piece of paper and a pencil. I use a kind of special paper, which has a name WenZhou skin paper. Its one surface is slick, just absorb little Chinese ink. It is very important for after operation.

You may choose any design what you like. At first, draw a draft. Then draw it on skin paper with ink. Attendtion, you must draw it on the slick surface of paper.

When I draw my design, I use a small size brush pen and oil ink. I make ink thick. It can't flow, even it is on a slant surface.

Dry the ink on the paper, before next step. Then place this surface, there is ink, on the stamp and face to the stamp. Soak the paper with water.

Press the back of the paper by a piece of tissue. If you need, you can press it with you nail. Try to uncover the paper slowly, you can see your design has been reversed.

A stamp bed is a good tool to fix a stamp when I carve it. I use a brush to wipe detritus off, don't blow them. A piece of washcloth can be used to adsorb detritus.

Carve the outline at first, then the other part. I need to  keep attention on using force from start to finish.

I always collect my stamps in my  stamp book. After many years, I can browse them again and show them to you.  Some of them are here. Hope you like them.

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