Similar to yearly, we ship our Christmas playing cards to our household and pals by put up. We wish to craft our personal playing cards collectively as a household and yearly we attempt to make one thing completely different. This yr we bought impressed by the attractive shapes and hues of the brand new Christmas stamps by Swiss Put up.
The stamps we made out of straightforward potatoes. They’re really easy to make and the end result is simply beautiful. The significant Christmas message gave it an additional private contact.
In case you are operating out of time (and concepts) to your Christmas Card, we will share with you our card which you’ll obtain totally free right here.
Step-by-step creating your potato stamped Christmas card:
- Create a textual content file in your laptop or cell phone
- Kind your individual private Christmas needs or a discovered significant quote (you may also insert any picture parts or photographs)
- Print it out on a daily paper
- Personalise and signal it utilizing a colourful pens
- Wash and dry a big potato
- Reduce your potato in half lengthwise
- Rating some easy Christmas designs (or use cookie cutters)
- With a knife, reduce across the edges to take away the surplus items of potato (this step is finest left for adults)
- Reveal the potato stamp
- Pat dry so the paint will stick higher
- Combine up your paint and medium (acrylic or tempera)
- Place your paint onto the plate and sprinkle with a tiny quantity of water and salt. The salt will trigger the paint to develop into extra fluid, making it simpler to stamp with
- With a brush or a foam pad, apply paint to the stamp
- Stamp the primary component and let dry
- Create the subsequent component subsequent to the primary one (overlapping) and let dry utterly
- Potato stamp your envelope
- Your new hand-stamped Christmas playing cards are able to ship out!
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