I will pay money if someone will help me. How to make a rubber stamp

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Folks, I have been at this for weeks. I am at the end of my rope and I feel like jumping off the cliff.

I need a step-by-step instruction guide how to take a SVG And turn it into a file so I can cut it out to make a rubber stamp.

For example a little dog paw

I have tried it 30 or 40 different ways and I do not know what I am doing wrong.

If someone knows how to do this using Affinity Designer for the iPad that would be fantastic.

I also have Inkscape on my MacBook Pro I have only worked one time with the software.

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I would be happy to help you do that although not knowledgeable in Affinity Designer (which I only have on an iPad) nor Inkscape. I’m an Illustrator person. If you don’t get any takers I could take a whack at it.

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Post your image and I’ll see what I can do on AD on iPad.

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I realize this isn’t for AD, but may help.

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Is this something that would help?
Dog print

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So inking one of your own dog’s paws won’t work? Just kidding. Please don’t jump off the cliff. There are folks here to help. I don’t have Affinity Designer, but what about one of the free images in the interface? @cynd11 has a really great thread, and she will help you. Win win.

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I am sure all this can be done in AD but I did it in Inkscape in 2 minutes…

Draw a black square roughly the size of the stamp. Import/paste the paw image you want. Trace the bitmap. Drag the traced path over the square, and change the paw fill to white.

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Select the white paw and the square, and do “Path/Difference”.

Done. Vector engrave file:

paw
( ↑ is the SVG)

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With a glow if you’re feeling fancy.

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@cynd11 @pubultrastar @beerfaced @dklgood @eflyguy @evansd2

Thank you my sweets!! I love each and everyone of you.

I have NEVER EVER had a difficult time learning different softwares but for whatever reason I am quite challenged by this software.

For the last two months I have been teaching myself Affinity Designer—— I literally have 40 pages of notes on Affinity Designer for the iPad!!!

In life sometimes things are easy and sometimes things are difficult.
Maybe I have early dementia.

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Using this post as a reminder, I finally created my first stamp. Thanks for the motivation!

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When you forget to flip your image, see pubultrastar’s correct technique above, you’ll really feel like you have dementia.

Of course it doesn’t matter for a symmetrical image like a paw print.

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My Glowforge community boyfriend @eflyguy texted with me as I designed my first stamp.

Now I have to figure out how to do it in Affinity Designer for the iPad.

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How’s the resolution of the QR code? Does it work?

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It worked! I didn’t get good ink on my stamp as the pad wasn’t wide enough. I ordered a wider one. I think I’ll get better coverage of ink and a better and more consistent stamp when I get that, but it worked!

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Very cool. QR is a very forgiving code but I’m still amazed at some implementations. I would not have bet this would stand up to inking. Add another thing to the toolbelt :slight_smile:

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Here they are— done with Inkscape and my ink is drying up.

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I still have a few blocks of linoleum that I have been afraid to use. I read heard horror stories about the mess.

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