The Least Expensive Way to Make Stamped Greeting Cards

by Corrine
(Dallas, IA)

I have hundreds of rubber stamps, and I love to make my own cards. However, when we moved to our new home, my stamps had to stay packed in boxes, because I didn't have anywhere to put them. Since I still wanted to make my own cards, however, I came up with a trick that ended up looking much the same as my stamped cards without having to have any stamps or stamping pads.

I was lucky in that I had several rubber stamp catalogs because I'd sold stamps on the Internet for a number of years. I came up with the idea to make copies of the pictures in the catalogs and use them in place of originally-stamped images. Even the color pictures work just as well, because I use my own markers and chalks and even glitter glue to embellish them before gluing them to the card.

Anyone can find rubber stamp catalogs to buy for very little cash outlay. Then they can either cut the images straight from the catalogs, or they can take the catalog to a store that does copying and have copies made of several of the pages. Either way, it's much less expensive than buying all of those stamps. You can still have some stamps for the times when you feel like stamping, but you'll also have your catalogs to rely on when you need something different.