Beautiful Day - Wendy's Easy Ephemera and Faux Stamps

Easy Ephemera and Faux Stamps

What a better way to add to your own supplies by handmaking some ephemera. It doesn't need to be intense and send you into a tizzie!..make it simple, easy and fun by buying yourself  the Kaisercraft Happy Life Die/stamp set and a sheet of the Maggie Holmes Heritage POSTMARKED patterned paper and also the Kaisercraft DIY Flora Daisy Die then use your imagination...stamped images make wonderful ephemera especially if the person you are sending it to doesn't have the stamp set you have...and cutting up an already beautiful patterned paper full of stamps makes a wonderful start to making some faux stamps. Then making some beautiful flowers to pop into a Happy Mail to send to a special someone!

This is on my table right now. It may look like a mess but in reality it is a scrumptious display of handmade ephemera...

This scrumptiousness includes stamped images and sayings from Kaisercraft DIY Happy Life Die/stamp set, then cut from the matching dies.

Flowers made from The Kaisercraft DIY Flora Daisy 

...and what I'm going to show you now is just how easy it is to cut up the Maggie Holmes Postmarked patterned paper and make some faux stamps.

The patterned paper is 'chock a block' full of stamp images.

I cut out a few of the stamp images and then inked around the edges with a vintage sepia ink (my supplies).

I then glued each stamp onto a sheet of craft paper using art glitter glue.

Once the stamps were glued down, I used some zig-zag scissors and cut round each individual stamp, leaving a small border.

I then inked around the edge once again.

They started to look quite vintage by now, which is what I wanted.

To make them look as if they had already been through the post, I used a stamp from the Kaisercraft DIY Happy Life set which had a registered post mark image and stamped it on either the top or bottom of the faux stamp. I covered the top of the stamp with masking tape and removed the masking tape before stamping. This stops the ink from getting on the full stamp and keeps it to the part you want to stamp.

the part of the stamp where ink is...

Below: the finished faux stamps.

Showing the image you started with to the finished faux stamp ephemera.

They really turned out to be quite vintage looking and would look great added to one of your vintage styled junk journals.

You can view the process of making the faux stamps by clicking the video below:

There are so many stamp images on the Maggie Holmes Heritage Postmarked paper I'm sure you are going to have hours of fun making some faux stamps to send out in happy mail.

Wendy xox