How to Make Custom Rubber Stamps

Did you know that you can create your own custom3. Print your reverse image design onto a clear
rubber stamp for all of your crafting projects?transparency.
Do you enjoy creating custom artwork? Are you intoUse the Art Stamp Maker
making unique holiday cards?
Do you enjoy scrap booking and other home crafts?1. Put the transparency with your custom design on the
Have you ever wished you could make your ownDouble Glass Frame.
rubber stamp for a special project? Now you can.2. Place the Rubber Dam around your design as close
It used to be that you had to go through a company toas possible to the design without crowding it too much.
have a special mold made. You were subject to a3. Cover the design with the Liqui-Stamp (Polymer).
one-time mold setup fee. Then you were required toNote: The rubber dam material is placed close to the
buy a certain number of the stamps and in the enddesign to save on Liqui-Stamp Polymer.
you still did not own the stamp. The company keeps4. Expose the whole thing for 8 Minutes in The Art
the mold! Or charges you a high price to get it fromStamp Maker. Kind of reminds you of using an easy
them.bake oven. This allows the Liqui-stamp polymer to
What if you only want one stamp? What if you'd likehardeninto a commercial quality art stamp.
to keep your design safe? The answer is to make5. Wash off the excess unexposed Liqui-Stamp with
your own. It is not as hard as you think.the brush provided in the kit and check to see if the
Here is how you make your own rubber stamp:stamp is completely clean and ready to trim and
Design Creationmount.
6. Dry your custom art stamp and trim off any excess
1. Create your design in Black & White on yourmaterial. Glue it to any mount of your choice. It can be
computer using whatever graphics software you area simple block of wood or a fancy commercially made
comfortable with. You can also draw it by hand andmount. It is up to you.
either scan it in or use an Intuois drawing pad. If youThe Really Super Cool Part
don't have a scanner you can take your drawing to an- You now have a commercial quality stamp of your
office store and have them scan it.own personal design and you did it in less than 15
2. Copy it and Reverse the Black and White in theminutes!
image so that the black part of the design becomes- Your negative copy can be reused again and again
that part that you will want ink to be on when youto make the same stamp. That means you can sell
stamp it on a piece of paper. Save the reverse imageyour design or share it with friends and family.
as a separate file from your original design. You will be- The Art Stamp Maker can handle up to 25 square
able to use the original design to create custominches(4 ½" x 5 ½") at a time so you can
stencils later. If you can't get it reversed with yourmake more than one at a time.
software you can print it using reversing negatives.- You can make a full plate of Art Stamps at one time.
They come in the kit with the Art Stamp Maker.- You can have words or a design or both.