Your Own Stamps At Work

When I scrapbook using stamps, I usually take out all the stamps, inkpads I will be using as well as my stamp cleaners and wipes. So you can say the whole shebang are on top of each other. I love my messy craft space, it keeps me “sane”. 

Eversince my daughter discovered my little space at home, you’ll almost always find her crafting side by side with me, using my stuff, pretending to be a grown up by egging me to lend her my exacto knife and fine-tipped scissors. When she learned how to use my stamps… I went crazy. She’d pound my acrylic stamps on the inkpads (yes, plural!) in one go and instead of putting pressure on the stamp to make an image onto the paper, she would wipe it down. She was only two or three years old at the time. Horrors.   

So what did I do? I made a homemade stamp out of potatoes. And although it worked at first, the extra moist that came out of the rootcrop proved to be messier than usual. And carving was a pain. That went on for a few years hoping that my daughter will not touch my precious stamps again.

So imagine my surprise to see this:

Image by: The Long Thread

Styrofoam stamps mounted on caps! And that’s an all original artwork by your kid. Interested? Visit The Long Thread blog.