This week we challenged our design team to make their own stamps – and as always, they didn’t disappoint. Check out these innovative techniques. And then… we challenge you! Be inspired by some of the ideas from the design team, or share your own different ways of creating stamps to make your projects unique. Email your projects to [email protected] by next Wednesday 23rd March – we’ll share your ideas and the most innovative one will receive a fabulous prize pack.
Iris wanted to create a stamp that would both add texture to her page and also serve as a journaling spot. With this is mind, she took some corrugated board scraps, punched out scallop circle shapes and adhered it to her clear block with double adhesive. To use the stamps, Iris simply dabbed teal paint on the corrugated board shapes and stamped on to her layout.
She also stamped on a scrap piece of paper, punched it out with the same puncher she used on the boards, and adhered it to her layout with foam tape. This served as her journaling spot.
Louise was over the moon to get this brief. It has been on her crafty 'to do list' for some time to make herself some stamps of her own designs. Louise usually uses special stamp blocks that are available from artist supply shops, however she has been wanting to explore using less expensive options, as she would like to make some to give as gifts to her crafty friends.
For this particular stamp Louise has used craft foam which is readily available. Louise has used a texta marker and hand drawn her design straight onto the foam, then using a sharp craft knife and small sharp scissors has cut the design out of the foam. Before inking, Lou sealed the surface of the foam stamp with a glue stick to prevent the ink/paint mediums from soaking into the foam.
To ensure the foam stamp stays on the stamp block whilst stamping Louise has used small pieces of double sided tape to hold it in place.
Craft Foam is such a versatile product to use for stamping. Next time you are looking for a crafty idea for the kids in the holidays, consider getting a bag of craft foam shapes and using them for stamps and let the kids to create their own cards and papers that can be used for gifts/wrap.
Jane has used the Teresa Collins Stamp Maker kit and the designs included with the machine to make these stamps. Jane found the machine couldn’t be simpler to use and only takes six minutes of 'cooking' time to create these two stamps (frame and clock).
And check out this final cool trick from Jane. She says she no longer uses BlueTac for putting up posters in her sons room, instead she uses it with her beautiful buttons to create designer stamps! Jane said it's so much fun seeing how the designs on the buttons turned out.
Just press and flatten a small amount of blue tac onto an acrylic blocks to the size of the button, press the button into the blue tac and gentle pull the button away. Tap the BlueTac design gently onto your ink pad then stamp on cream card, punch these out using a circle punch and arrange them on your card front. You can stamp around six to eight times until the BlueTac loses it's impression. Genius!
