making stamps

hello ~

I decided to design my own sheet of stamps, print it out, and add little perforations with an unthreaded sewing machine.

Maybe in the future, I will create actual designs, but I didn’t really feel like creating something nice. Mostly, I wanted to create the perforations on the stamp sheet. I added a nice little abstract design and some text. I named the stamp brand Infinite because the most popular stamp brand in the USA is called Forever, and infinite and forever for synonyms. I chose different fonts and monochromatic colorways for each stamp. The abstract shape is actually the lowercase “a” in the font Oi.

I made half of the rows a little smaller because I thought printed, the white gap would be a bit too small. I did a test print and decided the smaller pictures were better. I also thought the stamps were too small, so I reprinted the stamps.

And here is the finished stamp sheet, complete with little perforations! I used my sewing machine to create all the little holes; it was quite fun to do. Before I added the perforations, I added a single layer of Mod Podge to add a nice shiny feel and look.

The holes do not really resemble stamp perforations, especially up close, but they think they are good enough to make the stamp sheet fun.

The stamp doesn’t look nearly as cute torn-off, but the tearing-off process was quite fun.

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I hope you enjoyed my stamp sheet! Thank you for reading and happy mailing letters ✉