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Hopefully by now you’ve got most of your Christmas presents sorted,
but have you wrapped them?
but have you wrapped them?
In this post I’ll show how to add some handmade flair to your wrapping paper, by block printing Christmas motifs onto plain paper. I’ve used brown recycled paper, but any plain paper could be used.
First up, you need some stamps. You could use store bought stamps and an ink pad, but you can also easily create your own. To make a stamp, first draw the mirror image of your desired motif onto a material like lino, rubber such as ezycut, or a half potato.
You then need to cut away the material which you don’t want to print (using a sharp knife for a potato, or lino cutting cools for lino or rubber). If you’re using a soft material like lino it can be useful to then glue the material onto a piece of wood, to give the lino more support and create a rigid stamp.
To make a stamp pad, you need a flat surface (something like the inside of a cd case), some paint (acrylic paint is fine), and a piece of absorbent material like felt. Spoon some paint onto your surface, cut a piece of material slightly bigger than the area covered in paint, and place the material over the paint. You’re now ready to start printing.
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