DIY Goddess

DIY Goddess I am not. We're lucky I can hem a pair of pants Oh wait, I can't. I bring them up to my Mom and have her do them for me. Dang. Anyways, because I am not a DIY girl whenever I accomplish the simplest of tasks I start to think that I am Martha-Freaking-Stewart. This is one of those times.

The other day I saw this ridiculously awesome DIY for rubber stamps. You can check out the tutorial here.

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SO CUTE! I freakin' fell off my chair from excitement when I saw it. Now, I still do not understand the mustache trend, but I just knew that I could totally make something with this. I hunted around for a little bit and found two never-been-used-before erasers in my desk. SCORE! 

After printing out what I wanted the stamp to look like I practiced tracing my design a few times on a piece of paper. Then I used a pencil to trace it onto the eraser.

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And now came the fun part. I started cutting away at the eraser so only the lettering remained. (The tutorial suggests using an X-Acto knife... I concur.)

My design was a little more complicated than a mustache, but I figured I could handle it. Just remember... if you decide to use letters or numbers you will need to print them backwards on the stamp.

Now start carvin':

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I started to carve along the bottom and then made my way around the top.

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Carving out the individual letters was the most difficult part, especially the "e" and the fancy parts of the "L".

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Somehow I managed to accomplish this with minimal personal injuries. Hooray! I grabbed a little stamp pad that I had found in the $1 bins at Michael's...

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And gave it a go!

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Not too shabby! You can see where I got lazy around the "e", but no big deal, I just went back and carved a bit more off the eraser at that end and BAM! Perfection!

Oh and remember our love potato story? I also recently learned that you can do this with potatoes! Add that to the list of reasons why potatoes are better than flowers. ;-)

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Since this ended up being such a quick and simple little project I might make one with our wedding date on it or our initials. The possibilities are endless! 

Now I just have to figure out what to use this cute little thing for. Stamp it on the wedding envelopes? Maybe our wedding day stationary? Or on favor boxes? 

What do you think?