How To Make Your Own Stamp
Creating own stamps is an attracting idea. Not just for kids and teenagers, but also to adults, or even business mans. Why? Self made stamps can be roughly divided into two categories, depending of their usage and depending of process of stamps making.
Usage of self making stamps can be: as home made stamp, for decorative and funny purposes, like own stamps for wedding, or own stamp for kids playing. Another and more serious usage is as regular postage stamp. You can’t make your stamp and send postcards or mail using them, but you can design own stamps on your PC and then send file to company that are licensed for creating official stamps from users, for this you would pay something like $10-$20 and then when they send you printed stamps that You designed, then those stamps can be used in postal traffic as all other postage stamps.
According to technology used to create own inexpensive personalized stamps, we can say, that there is also two methods for that, one is classic, using rubber and another one is modern in which you will use materials as photo polymer.
I will explain you how to make cheap customized stamps with modern technologies and modern material, what is more inexpensive and easier than dealing with classic rubber. What you need to make your fist stamps is: PC, printer (ink jet or laser, laser is better), few sheet of paper and cheap commercial photo polymer, which you can buy for less than $10 in local hobby or craft shop.
When you prepared all of those material and equipment you are ready to go. First you need to design on PC, using photo shop or some other drawing software, your future personal stamp in 1:1 ration. When you are done with stamp design, then you need to use software filer to create black and white negative. I know that this sounds to you maybe as rocket science, but in any drawing software, this is actually just one click, you find that option and just click and your stamp image will be converted into its negative. Now, when have your negative you are on half of a way to have own stamp. Next and last step is to use photo polymer, you will put printed image of stamp that you created above a commercial photopolymer sheet that you bought in local store, and you will expose to light according on instructions on polymer package depending of its manufacturer.
After that follow procedure from manufacturer, but usually you will need to wash piece of polymer that you exposed with water until you see clearly your new stamp. After that, dry stamp and it is ready for usage.
During a time, that was my hobby, and after few years I have many various kinds own my own stamps, for example there is classical stamps with my signature, stamp with harts for letters send to my girlfriend, stamp which i made for my younger sister with bear and some other funny animals to sign birthday party tickets, then there is a stamp with some of my favorite laptop manufacturer, etc.
Also, i have some real, postage stamps, which I purchased from Zazzle, they made them when I sent my drawing and made payment. Can you image how good joke can be when you have own postage stamp, and sent your girlfriend letter with that stamp?
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