How to Make Your Own Stamps [with help from your Cricut!]

As a DIYer, I’m constantly seeing projects or ideas together with adding them to the “try this 1 day” list. I know some of you lot tin relate! I spent a crazy sum of fourth dimension on Pinterest then you lot tin imagine my listing is endless. “Learn how to build your ain stamps” has been waiting on that listing for quite a acre now, together with this novel projection alongside the TrueControl knife was the perfect excuse to teach inwards happen!

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So you lot all know how much I dear my Cricut right?? And everything that Cricut comes out alongside is gold. Gold. So when they announced that they were coming out alongside a novel crafting knife – I knew it had to hold upward improve than the average knife! I mean, it has a lock organization then that the blades can’t shift, it has a agency for you lot to alter the blades without having to behave upon them (yay!), together with it’s cushioned together with comfy to hold! So I’m taking it for a exam spin together with showing you lot how to build your ain stamps!

Here’s everything you lot need:

• Cricut Explore Air 2, Special Edition Martha Stewart machine bundle


• Design Space File HERE


• Vinyl


• TrueControl Knife


• Speedball Stamp Block


• Black Martha Stewart Acrylic Craft Paint


• Tea Towels


• Foam Brush

How to Make Your Own Stamps:

Start yesteryear opening the Design Space File together with choosing “make it”. Set your Cricut Martha machine to “vinyl”and teach laid for your cut.

You tin charge any coloring of vinyl into the machine every bit it’s non business office of the finished pattern – we’re exactly cutting a template.

These Speedball carving blocks are perfect for designing together with carving your ain stamps! This was my offset fourth dimension using one, together with I couldn’t believe how slow it was to carve.

I only placed yesteryear cutting out pattern onto my carving block, together with used theTrueControl Knife to cutting to a greater extent than or less the pattern.

The exterior edges tin hold upward cutting off completely, but I wanted my within together with exterior shapes to rest attached. To exercise this, I made diagonal cuts alongside my TrueControl Knife, together with peeled out a perfectly cutting triangle. The postage stamp was even then attached at the bottom.

When you’re done cutting out the shapes, you lot tin pare off the vinyl together with throw it away.

When you’re laid to role the stamp, catch some cloth paint. I used the multi-surface high gloss acrylic arts and crafts paint.

I institute the best agency to charge the postage stamp alongside paint, was a uncomplicated foam pigment brush. Apply your stamps inwards whatever pattern or pattern that you lot want!

Since this was my offset fourth dimension stamping, I wasn’t certain how it would plow out, but I actually dear the in conclusion design! There’s something nearly the imperfect patterns they create, that teach inwards then perfect. It’s a swell improver to our dark together with white kitchen!

 

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