Hot Glue Gun Stamps Tutorial

Cathy Calamas, one of our Paper Traders Moderators,
recently posted this tutorial on her blog 
and is sharing it here today.

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What do you do when you have piles

of rubber stamps but you don't 

have the one that you need?

Make one!

I needed a nest for a Paper Traders ATC swap

that I am participating in but I didn't have one.

I had plenty of birds but no nests.

I had seen this somewhere in the art blog world

but I had never done it before.

I cut out a square of thick cardboard,

heated up the glue gun and Voila

I had a nest.

(really , it is)

Here I used it on the ATC's:

I rotated the stamp and after re-inking, re-stamped it

several times to get the nest nice and thick.

Added some little cut out eggs.

I then wanted to try a bigger one here:

Tip: before the glue gets completely cool and hard,

press a plastic lid on top of it to get the surface

flat and less bumpy. 

It will take the stamp ink better.

I placed a paper circle in the center

so that I would have an empty place

to paint the eggs.

I have to work a bit on my eggs though.

Those darn things are hard to draw

without them looking pointy at both ends.

I then filled in the white areas with some

brown water color paint to flesh it out.

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After posting this on my blog,

I decided to make a few more hot glue gun stamps

and this is what I came up with.

 This is the card that I created them,

embellishing it with some black ink outlines.

Leaf or feather? Could be used either way, I think.

I made an ATC background with it as a leaf.

Completed ATC.

The stamps you can make are as

endless as your imagination.

I hope you will try this out.

Leave us a link, in the comments below,

to your blog if you give this a try

as we would love to see your creative spin on this.