I was inspired by this amazing Japanese craft book (link).
I made my stamps out of cork, because I have LOTS of them. It is a bit more rustic than using erasers, but it’s also recycling!
Draw your design on one end of your cork using a Sharpie. I used a silver Sharpie for the dark stained corks.
Using the tip of your craft knife, stab around your design. Insert the craft knife 1/8″ -1/4″ deep.
Carefully cut around edges, being careful NOT to cut off your design. If you mess up, just slice it off and start over!
Pull off excess cork from around your designs.
Stamp away!
My first stamp! Roll the stamp around a little to get full coverage.
Stamping crazy!
You can have a whole set in a matter of minutes!
Try carving on the side of the cork for larger stamps and use a pencil eraser for small round shapes. BTW – I’ve found that synthetic cork works pretty well too.
cute cute cute!
i’ve always wondered how to do this. fabulous tutorial – thanks so much!
Wow, great idea! I always hate tossing wine corks, but hate clutter too…now I have a great way to make stamps for cards! Thank you!
Oh, that’s such a good idea to reuse/recycle. I’ve see something like that done with a potato before, but I thought that was kinda cheesy and didn’t last long.
Excellent idea! I’ll do this to sign my name on petty things… and maybe make a new stamp or two.
Hi, Amy! I love this project, and I wanted to let you know that I’ve featured it at the Strollerderby Blog on Babble.com. Keep up the inspiring work!
http://babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/2007/05/29/crafty-use-for-wine-corks.aspx
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hey~~ I love your blog!! Is it okay for me to add your link to my blog? I make lots of rubber stamps, maybe I should try cork stamps now!
Thank you for sharing! You rock!!
Thanks for the comments! Feel free to link to me. Best!
Hooray! Finally something creative I can do with the many wine corks I’ve collected over the years! Marvellous!
Fantastic idea! My man and I have been throwing around cork ideas for a year now.. to no avail. Now I have something practical to do with them! Thank you!
Those are soooo cute. Great idea!!!
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Stunning!!!
That will save me soooo much money thank you
oh…it gv me a good idea to carve a stamp. Thanks for sharing.
Just found your site by looking for “carve your own stamp” for Letterboxing. GREAT idea, using corks! Nice site; I’ll visit again!
I linked to your site from craftsocial and started exploring your posts. Love this idea, thank you!