Craft Time: Carve Your Own Stamps

While unpacking from our new apartment, I found left over supplies from Kameron's stamp-making adventure during our wedding planning phase. He had carved his own stamp that we used to add an embellishment to our wedding programs.

Well, I had a few days off, so I went to work carving my own stamp.

I wanted to make something that would be fun, unique, and I could use on note-cards  envelopes, craft projects, etc.

Here's what I used:

• Stamp Carving Block
• Sharp Stamp Cutters
• X-acto Knife
• Ink Pad
• Pencil
• And lots of patience
• and bandaids...

Here's what I did:

• Decide on a stamp design
• With a pencil, sketch your design into the block
• Use the X-acto knife or the stamp cutters to carve the design into the block
• ----caution, you may end up cutting your fingers in the process, be slow & careful
• Make sure your carvings are deep enough as not to show up on paper when you stamp it
• & stamp away!