VIDEO: Make your own Christmas cards
You can get blank postcards or folding cards in every well-stocked stationery shop and in larger department stores with a stationery department. As well as the matching ones Colours. Plain, colorless ones are best cards. The pressure can be clearly seen on it.
The potato becomes a stamp for your Christmas cards
- Wash the potatoes thoroughly and then dry them well.
- Cut the potato in half so that you get two halves with flat surfaces. Depending on the size of the motif you want to receive, you can divide the potato crosswise or lengthwise.
- You can now edit the cut surfaces for your stamp. You have two options for doing this. For the simple variant, pierce a cookie shape deep into the cut surface of the potato. Pull this out again and cut away the outer edges so that the stamp motif is exposed. The more demanding variant requires a little more skill. Simply cut out your design freehand. For Christmas z. B. Stars or fir trees.
Stamp colored motifs yourself
- Take up enough paint on a brush and coat the area of the stamp motif with it. Important: The more color you use, the more intense the result will be.
- Now press the potato stamp on the desired positions on the blank cards. If you use one color application for several printing processes, the motif becomes more transparent from time to time. That can have a nice effect.
- The natural stamps are easy to wash off, so you can print the same motif in multiple colors.
- You can cook the processed potatoes for approx. use two days before they dry out too much.
Help with Christmas cards - an original idea
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It is best to try out the stamps on a scrap of paper. If you don't like a motif that much, you can possibly change it. rework or just start a completely new attempt with the next potato. Have fun with Handcraft Of your individual Christmas cards!
