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Re: New to letterboxing!
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Reply to: #905989 by Halfway Anywhere
Jul 31, 2015 8:09pm
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If you plant them, they will come. Just start carving! Each stamp you do will be just a little better than the one before it. Take a coupon to your nearest craft store, check the block printing section for a speedball starter kit (http://www.michaels.com/10288838.html#q=speedball&start=19) and hop to it!

For starter images to carve, search google images to clip art, coloring pages or silhouettes. You can do it!
Re: New to letterboxing!
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Reply to: #905989 by Halfway Anywhere
Jul 31, 2015 8:25pm
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My aunt has over a 1,000 finds and she finds just as many as me.

Be very nice to your aunt and maybe she'll take you to her favorite places.
Re: New to letterboxing!
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Reply to: #905986 by Halfway Anywhere
Aug 1, 2015 2:47am
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Welcome, Welcome!

The tutorials are a great place to start, as stated. I've found that you really have to scour the craft stores....sometimes the rubber blocks are separated from the carving tools...in my local Michaels (Hickory, NC) it's in the woodworking section... lord only knows.....
Re: New to letterboxing!
Board: Stamp Carving and Mounting
Reply to: #905986 by Halfway Anywhere
Aug 1, 2015 5:41am
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Take one of those pink school erasers and with a pocket knife hack something into the flat surface of one side and you have your first stamp. Then the quality of your stamps and carving ability will only improve from there.

And just a note: To most of us, that roughly hand carved stamp is much more prized than one of those beautifully made store bought stamps....not that there's anything wrong with that. :-)

AB
Re: New to letterboxing!
Board: Stamp Carving and Mounting
Reply to: #905990 by LROSEM
Aug 1, 2015 7:10am
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For starter images to carve, search google images to clip art, coloring pages or silhouettes. You can do it!

Openclipart.org also has a lot of good images to carve. Keep carving and you'll get better.
Re: New to letterboxing!
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Reply to: #906005 by LittleHoot
Aug 1, 2015 7:14am
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in my local Michaels (Hickory, NC) it's in the woodworking section.

In my local Michaels it's in the not-in-this-store section. In fact, all of the local craft store keep it in the same place. I order from Stampeaz.
Re: New to letterboxing!
Board: Stamp Carving and Mounting
Reply to: #905986 by Halfway Anywhere
Aug 1, 2015 7:23am
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As Wronghat said, there are a LOT more boxes than that around Charleston. You need to go find the ones you can see, then more will pop up. Or go to an event. Like Wolfie, i would strongly suggest the Paris Mountain event. Not only will you find lots of boxes, you will meet an amazing number of GREAT people (i would be one of them, but i'm in New England until Oct 22).

So be patient, keep growing and more will show!!

~tigs
Re: New to letterboxing!
Board: Stamp Carving and Mounting
Reply to: #906013 by tiggermama
Aug 1, 2015 7:33am
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i'm replying to my own message! LOL

ok, so i did an advanced search for you. Up in your neck o' the woods, there's not a lot. It's that weird intersection between 26 and 95, where you'd think there would be people, but there's not. Welcome to the interesting things about letterboxing.

However, there are 90+ boxes around Charleston, so you might have to travel. There are indeed only 10 boxes in Mount Pleasant, but there's 21 boxes NE of the city proper, then more in the city. There are an amazing number of The Boogies boxes in and around Columbia, plus some other people's (Woody Clowns, et al). Around Greenwood, you've got A Southern Gentleman, whose boxes are AMAZING. He held an event in Sumter (yum, pork) which has a lot of boxes still there. You are going to have to think "road trip."

~tigs
Re: New to letterboxing!
Board: Stamp Carving and Mounting
Reply to: #906014 by tiggermama
Aug 1, 2015 9:23am
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You are going to have to think "road trip."

I have decided to try and not look for boxes close to home. I'm saving them for when am taking a new person out to introduce them to letterboxing or for when we have been sick for a while and just need to get out.

The last couple of times we have gone out it has been over an hour away from home. It's like a micro mini vacation. Yesterday we left at 9am and then got home at 1am. Did some day boxing AND some night boxing. Picked up a hitch hiker. It was a great day!!!!