Recycle Those Scraps Into New Stamping Blocks!
My daughter is a stamper and card maker. She loves working with new ideas for her scrapbooks.
Saturday, while we were there, she made some new stamps, out of the scraps from other stamps. When she buys stamps they come in a block shape, that are precut, and she has to punch out the stamp. What is leftover she makes into a new stamp. Her husband cuts up blocks of wood for her from the scraps, left over from building their house, and she attachs it to the block.
For example, she got a new snowflake stamp. She punched out the snowflake and what was left over looked like a rounded star. So she got 2 stamps in one. Then she uses these to stamp designs on a piece of paper for background sheets for her scrapbooks.
She even made herself a stamp that looked like stained glass left over from scraps after cutting out a new stamp.
She also saves her scraps from cutting out designs with her punches for other projects. Even the little pieces work good for confetti, or making stained glass windows.
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