I'm on a crapting roll, so I figured I'd upload two posts today.
As you can see, I'm still working on my greeting card designs for the upcoming craft show. Here's my newest attempt at crapting stamps:
- Scissors
- Craft knife
- Pencil
- Tacky glue
- Cardboard
- Styrofoam (I used one that originally held ground beef-- I know... gross when you think about it, but I promise I washed it really well)
To make these crapty beauties, I used a pencil to sketch out my designs onto the Styrofoam. Then, I used my scissors and craft knife to cut out the different pieces. Then, I used tacky glue to attach them to pieces of cardboard. Once the Styrofoam was stuck on tight, I trimmed the cardboard so that it was slightly bigger than my stamp.
Instead of making a sponge ink pad, this time I used a paintbrush and painted a thin layer of craft paint onto each stamp before each use. Here are my results:
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| Look! My lettering came out the right way. Hooray! |
These stamps were fun to crapt... and I feel like I'm moving in the right direction... but I definitely have a ways to go if I want to make cards that are good enough to sell.
So currently I'm going back to the drawing board and channeling the mantra of Chuck's favorite book character: "I think I can, I think I can, I think I can..."