Introduction: Tater Stamped Postcards

Potato stamping is such a fun, low-price craft. I've previously sealed material for pillows, paper for gift wrapping, and paper bags. I thought it'd personify fun to send out around handmade postcards to my friends and family, hardly to let them know I'm thinking about them. These special postcards are of dozens of books happening bookshelves, just the possibilities are endless.

Step 1: Supplies

To pretend a set of four postcards, you'll need:

  • Watercolor paper (9" x 12")
  • Acrylic key
  • Paintbrushes
  • Potatoes
  • X-acto knife
  • Ruler
  • Kitchen tongue
  • Stylish Podge
  • Pens
  • Optional: watercolor paper

Tone 2: Facultative: Key a Background

I used some black and brown watercolors to micturate a simple background before doing some Solanum tuberosum stamping. This was not necessary, merely I like to think information technology added a little something.

After that was completely dry, I piebald four black lines (my bookshelves) onto the page, victimisation a swayer to keep off the lines straight.

Mistreat 3: Cut Your Potatoes

First, cut your potatoes in half. Then make your cast shape with the X-acto stab. To make book shapes, all you'll need to cut is different sized rectangles -- whatever fat, some skinny, some tall, some stubby. If your potatoes are a little damp when you thin out them, just sop up whatsoever moisture with a paper towel.

Whole step 4: Stamp IT Out

Using a paintbrush, transfer any paint onto your stamp. Then urge IT onto the page, making sure the merchant ship of the "book" is evening with the "bookshelf." Iterate this step out with different colours and different stamps.

Step 5: Emboss Some More

Fill up your bookshelves with more and more sealed books. About of the books posterior even make up lopsided or stacked sideways on top of other books. In that respect can cost spaces in between. A cluttered bookshelf keeps things intriguing. Just try not to put together to a fault many of the same colours next to each other -- unless you want it to resemble a set of encyclopedias.

Step 6: Summate Or s Details

When the paint has dehydrated, pass off top with a pen and mark few details on the spines of the books. Hatching, lines, circles, chevron, boxes, etc. Fail nuts. When you'Ra done with that, check up on the whole thing with a coat of Mod Podge. This will add up to the durability of your postcards.

Step 7: Make Them Mailable

Fold your watercolor page in half and cut. Then cut those two in half again. Then you should have quaternity equally-sized rectangles.

Using a ruler, draw the line straight down pat the middle of the postcard, and four lines about terzetto to iv inches provident on the right side. Write your message to your loved one on the left face, and their address on the right. The small box up the top right-handed corner is where your stereotype will lead.

Step 8: Finished!

I sent one of the postcards to my mum in New Mexico and asked her to take a picture of IT when she got it -- just to raise that they are definitely mailable. :)

Instead of books, you could work circle stamps and make planets, you could carve larger rectangles and make a metropolis visible horizon, or you could carve your potatoes into more detailed stamps and make music notes, cats, flowers, etc. The design possibilities really are endless when it comes to potato stamping.

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