How to Cut Foam Stamps

It is not hard to cut foam and make custom ink stamps.

Available in various colors and degrees of thickness, foam is a material that accepts paint, ink and other substances readily. Foam is washable, reusable and available at craft, home improvement, discount and retail superstores. You can also cut foam into different shapes--animals, letters, circles, boxes and other shapes--to form stamps. The stamps are ideal for decorating scrapbook pages; applying a border to a room or area; and enhancing frames, books, signs, tables and other objects.

Things You'll Need

• Cutting board or piece of cardboard
• Foam
• Pencil or marker
• Utility knife
• Glue: fast drying
• Paper towel
• Toothpick or unsharpened pencil

Instructions

1. Place a cutting board or piece of cardboard on a flat surface--desk, workbench or other surface. Place a piece of foam on the cutting board/cardboard.

2. Use a pencil or marker to draw the shape you want on the foam--animal, heart, circle, square or other shape. Cut the shape out carefully with a utility knife. Cut slowly to achieve a clean, neat stamp.

3. Cut a 1- by 1-inch block out of a scrap piece of foam. The block will provide a handle for your foam stamp.

4. Glue the foam block onto the foam shape using a fast drying glue. Remove any excess glue from the stamp with a paper towel.

5. Let the foam and handle dry before using the stamp.

Tips & Warnings

• You can also glue a toothpick or unsharpened pencil to your foam stamp to form a handle.

References

• Cut Out and Keep: Foam Stamps
• Jann Gray: Make Your Own Foam Stamps

Resources

• Scrapbook: Scrapbooking Tips--Foam Stamp