How to Cut Foam Stamps With the Cricut Machine
Purchasing stamps from a craft store can be rather costly and you will be limited to what designs you are able to purchase and what size those designs will be. You can use a Cricut die-cutting machine to make your own stamps with inexpensive foam sheets from your local craft store and pieces of thick cardboard. By making your own stamps this way you can choose from several different designs and choose what size you would like your stamps to be.
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Things You'll Need
- Cricut machine
- Deep cut blade
- New Cricut cutting mat
- Fun foam sheet
- Thick cardboard
- Glue
- Scissors
- Cricut cartridge with desired design
Instructions
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Load the cartridge with your desired design into the Cricut machine and place the keypad overlay in place. Switch out the regular Cricut blade with a deep cut blade. Set the blade to 5, the speed of the machine to 1 and the pressure to 5.
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Peel the plastic off of your new cutting mat and place the fun foam sheet down onto the sticky surface of the mat. Rub over the fun foam a couple of times to secure it to the mat. Do not attempt to cut fun foam with an older mat; the heaviness of the fun foam sheet requires the stickiness of a new mat.
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Load the cutting mat into the machine with the fun foam attached.
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Select the design that you want to cut from the foam using the keypad. Make sure you select any special features that you would like, such as shadowing, before making the cut. Press "Cut" on your machine and wait for the machine to complete the cut.
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Unload the mat and foam from the machine and carefully peel the fun foam from your cutting mat.
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Remove the cut-out design from the rest of the fun foam sheet. Take your time when doing this so you don't rip your design if the machine didn't cut certain parts all the way through. Use scissors to snip any parts of the design that might still be attached to the foam sheet.
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Trim any rough edges with your scissors to smooth them out. Set the cut-out design aside to allow time for the impressions from the machine's rollers to come out of the foam.
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Glue your foam design to an appropriately sized piece of thick cardboard with glue. Let the glue dry completely before using your new foam stamp.
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Tips & Warnings
You may need to trim down the foam sheet to fit on your cutting mat, depending on what machine you are using and the size of the foam sheets you purchase.
