Marvin the Martian
Fran Cicero, Braintree MA


A woman who came to my bookbinding workshop gave me this pin. She e-mailed a description of how she made it, as follows:

I made the pin by setting up a page on Word and handstamping and coloring in each Marvin in each rectangle. It could've been done easier by scanning in an image off a Marvin site on the Internet, but the whole idea was to hand stamp each because it was a rubber stamp convention.

I used permanent ink for the stamp and handcolored in the colors with stamp markers, starting with the lightest color first.

I sliced up the pages to the final size, placed them on a legal-sized heat laminator pouch and ran it through the heat laminator. I cut them again and stuck the pins on the back.

Because the corners are so sharp, in retrospect, I would've rounded the corners with a corner rounder punch.

-- francicero@aol.com

Marvin the Martian hawking Illudium Q36 explosive space modulators


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