I have always always wanted to have stamps with my drawings on them. Particularly the licky kind. Yesterday it suddenly occured to me that I could sort of make stamps with a full sticker sheet print out and my sewing machine, minus the thread! It folds and tears off just like stamps, but the edges are a bit less crisp than real stamps. To my sluggish post Christmas brain, this discovery felt like pure genius. Just don't ask me to do any math till February.
Tania, you're brilliant!!!
If you really want to make the licky kind, I seem to remember that liquidy brown non-toxic Lepage glue from primary school makes a good licky sticker. You are really getting uber-crafty lately! Yay!
Posted by: Karina | January 05, 2005 at 10:05 AM
Ingenious!
Posted by: Karen | January 05, 2005 at 10:33 AM
Brilliant!
Posted by: Lori-Lyn | January 05, 2005 at 10:51 AM
so clever, you rock!
Posted by: kim | January 05, 2005 at 11:23 AM
That's a great idea!
Posted by: Misa | January 05, 2005 at 11:33 AM
So cool! So cute!
Posted by: jingles | January 05, 2005 at 11:47 AM
Very Cute! I love those "light bulb" moments
Posted by: Cindy | January 05, 2005 at 11:57 AM
Hi Tania - you're a genius!! These are very cute :-)
Another trick - if you don't want to break out the sewing machine - is to use a pattern transfer wheel (you know, the pizza cutter looking thingy). I use this all of the time to perforate card stock. I never thought of using it for stamps, but I think it would be a perfect alternative.
Happy Postage Stamping!!!
Posted by: cielenpapier | January 05, 2005 at 12:08 PM
Tania, you ARE a genius!!
Keep on tickin!!
Posted by: Giao | January 05, 2005 at 02:23 PM
thanx for all the great tips guys. i just got a sewing machine for xmas. can't wait to perforate!!!
Posted by: cat | January 05, 2005 at 02:55 PM
haha!
thanks everyone! thats so funny.
karina, i am going to try the glue trick, thats cute - like kids eating glue.
i like the idea of that pattern wheelly thing ... great idea!!
:)
Posted by: tania | January 05, 2005 at 05:41 PM
How funny, I was just about to post the suggestion of the pattern transfer wheel thingie. But using a sewing machine is brilliant! That must sound funny going through the machine, I'll have to try that now. Thanks for the inspiration, Tania! Oh, and the little fishies are really cute, and stickers/stamps that say thank you would be very useful, that's cool, too!
Posted by: jennybee | January 06, 2005 at 09:23 AM
Such fun ! And did you know there is a site that will turn your photos (or artwork) into REAL postage stamps ?
http://photo.stamps.com/
Posted by: Cin | January 06, 2005 at 10:18 AM
ooh!
cool stamps site!! thanks.
:)
and i know giao had one too, that would turn a jpg into a sheet of stamps...
fun!
Posted by: tania | January 06, 2005 at 05:51 PM
You are a genius :D
Posted by: rosa | January 08, 2005 at 06:09 AM
If you ask me, it is pure genius. Clever!
Posted by: Lucia | May 31, 2006 at 04:04 PM