Art Journaling, Quilting, and Whatever else Strikes my Fancy

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Leave your Mark with Home-Made Stamps



Stamps can add a cool effect to art journaling pages, but let's be honest they are expensive if you buy them at a local craft store.  However, I have discovered that it's super easy to make your own stamps. 

All you need is some craft foam.  This is readily available in the local craft store in the kid's section.  The best kind to buy is the one with a sticker backing.  It's pretty thin so you need to by a few pieces of thicker foam without a sticker backing to be used as a supporter.

All you have to do is take the thin foam and draw whatever design you wish.  Then using a craft knife you cut it out.  Peel off the sticker backing a place on the thick foam.  Then just cut the whole thing out and you now have a stamp.  This is really inexpensive and allows you all kinds of different options since you can design your own.  

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