Monday, June 24, 2013

Making Your Own Stamps

  Western Theme -We are the Star B Ranch!  Here are bandannas!

Two sample Bandannas I printed with the stamps I made.
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  I've been working on VBS crafts lately.  There are two of us who head up the VBS crafts for our church.  This year the theme is western.  Our area is the Cow Poke Crafts.  One of the main things the kids are making are bandannas.  We've purchased plain white cotton bandannas for them to mark on.  In the process of trying to figure out the best way to make marks, I decided to make some stamps.  I tried some sponges, but they didn't stamp well enough.  Then I remembered that craft foam works really well to make stamps.  I bought a package of sticky back foam sheets.  


I layered two craft foam sheets then drew around a paper pattern.
I found that they cut better if I drew on the side that was foam.  This is the
side that will be used for the stamp.  The other side is covered with paper over the sticky film.

Then I cut them out with small scissors.

Here I am sticking the stamp to another piece of craft foam.

I have added some detail on the stamp with a pen.   These will show up  when printing.
I also have cut the backing foam close to the stamp so as to minimize the spill over of paint.

This is a close up of the boot stamps.

I made horses, cowboys, cowboy hats, stars, letter B, cactus, and boots.   Remember if you are doing words or letters to make them backwards so when they are printed they will come out the right way.  I will follow up with more crafts we will be doing.

Sew see you later,
Bette