The first thing you do is draw your picture on paper. Then you color the back of that paper with pencil. Then you put the paper on the linoleum and redraw your picture harder and it shows up on the linoleum. Then you carve it out, and put the paint on it and push it down on the paper. I made it the number 45 because that is my basketball number. That it is it is hard to do the numbers backwards. What I liked most was the carving. I really didn't like that it wasn't that big of a piece of linoleum.