Got some great reactions on the home made foam stamps and a how to question (hi Jo!)... so I decided to make a few pictures this afternoon when I made me some more cute bird stamps...
So, if you want to know how easy it is to make your own foam stamp... here we go...
1. Trace the design on a piece of vellum, using a pencil... it's the easiest to use a bold design!
2. Use a thin sheet of light colored foam... (here in the Netherlands you can buy it under the name of Crepla, and it comes in many colors, as you can see). Turn the vellum and put in on the foam sheet, then rub firmly with your fingers over the image, so it gets transfered on the foam...
This technique is great to use up all your left over pieces...
3. Cute the transfered image carefully... the better the image is cut, the neater your stamped image will be... use a needle to poke a hole where the eye should be...
4. Cut up an old CD case, so you can mount your foam shape on... just make a good indention with your craft knife, and then bend far enough so the plastic snaps... (you can use chipboard or something like that to mount your stamp, but I like to see where I stamp, so I use clear plastic...)
5. If the plastic has sharp edges, you can use some sandpaper or a file (I used the new Basic Grey precision file set) to make the edges smooth... Now you glue down the foam image with strong craft glue on the plastic mount... (don't reverse the image when you glue it down, because if you stamp the stamped image will be reversed and be exactly as the original!)
6. Because the paws were so small, I didn't cut them out of foam... I drew them on my mount (just as the tiny details on the bird) so I can draw them in stamped image... the wing is cut loose from the image, and glued in place... the lines will show in your stamped image!
That's all! Have fun, and I would love to see what kind of stamps you guys made!
I'll show you a layout made with my stamps soon!
Wow Peet, wat onwijs gaaf. Gaan we dit een keertje samen doen? Kom ik met heel mijn hebben en houwen jouw kant op! Wat gaaf zeg!
Posted by: Sjoera | March 02, 2007 at 08:00 PM
I love this, thanks for sharing :o)
Posted by: Alexandra Belo | October 05, 2007 at 11:02 AM
Wow! Thank you for sharing!
Posted by: silvitanova | October 09, 2007 at 11:42 PM
This is great!!!
Posted by: Mariangeles | December 06, 2007 at 12:22 AM
This is such a great idea. Your photos and explanations are very clear. I have some of this foam ... never used it for the projects I thought I was. Now, I'm going to have to try my hand at some of these simple shapes.
Thanks so much for sharing!
Tish / aka: Art-Girl
Posted by: Tish | December 06, 2007 at 02:54 PM
Thank you! Great!
Posted by: Marie | December 06, 2007 at 09:12 PM
This is awesome, the birdie is soo cute! I may have to make the same exact one.
Posted by: Lan | December 06, 2007 at 10:48 PM
coolness! i saw your stamps from mad cropper :) thanks for sharing this, will definitely try!!
Posted by: donna | December 08, 2007 at 05:39 PM
Great tutorial. Thanks for sharing.
Posted by: Heather Grow | December 09, 2007 at 08:58 AM
Love this! Love it, love it, love it.
Posted by: ohradiogirl | December 10, 2007 at 04:30 AM
wonderful. looks fun to do
//Bodil from sweden
Posted by: Bodil | December 11, 2007 at 11:35 AM
Great idea! Thanks for sharing
Anna from Italy
Posted by: anna | February 16, 2008 at 06:08 PM
thx for sharing this.
Gonna try this right away.
love, es
Posted by: esther | April 22, 2008 at 01:47 PM