A customized stamp is a good way to either perform a business function, or even a recreational one like creating accents for a scrapbook. To make your own stamps you can use an internet website that allows rubber stamp customization, or you can carve them yourself using supplies from an art or craft store. The type you choose really depends upon how you’ll be using the stamp. When you plan to make your own rubber stamps, consider the uses. Is this mainly for a business function, or a home art project?
If you want to make your own stamps for business use, typically a store like Office Depot, or online websites like TheStampMaker.com are good places to start. Both allow you to create professional customized stamps to suit any needs. You can create signature stamps in order to quickly and easily add legal notation to any document. Or you can even make your own address stamp so that you can quickly post the corporate address on any document, without having to write it out each and every time. Also there are date stamps, so you can quickly post the date on any piece of paper with ease.
Which stamp is right for you, depends upon which uses you think seem most important. If you find yourself having to identify the company name and address on several documents, creating an address specific stamp is a good idea. If you’re tired of signing paper after paper day in and day out, make your own stamps for signature use. A date stamp is always useful, so that you can keep every document updated to identify the exact date that you signed or received them.
Your typical customized stamp will cost you around $25-$30 depending upon the style you choose, and the amount of information that needs to be carved into the rubber. But for professional stamps, or even the stamps you make yourself, you’ll need an inkpad. The typical inkpad will cost around $3 to $4, with replacement ink running around the same price. These will be essential even if you make your own stamps, to ensure you’ll always be able to use them. You can also make your own postage stamps for mailings. People will typically put things like family pictures or photos of their pets when they make family stamps.
To make your own stamps for home use, typically an art supplies store will have what you need. There are a variety of different materials you can use, to either allow custom stamp making to be easier, or more creative. There are materials known as Penscore, which allows you to make a reverse impression of any small object. Then that reverse impression can be converted into a personalized stamp. You can also use small vinyl erasers to carve out a small homemade stamp.
All you’ll need to make your own stamps, is some sort of carving knife, and a tool to trace your image onto the surface of the vinyl eraser. From there you simply draw the image, or letters that you want the stamp to display. Then you can use your carving knife to cut away the negative space, and only leave the image or words that you want displayed. Now you have a stamp that you can use on any home art project, like a scrapbook.