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DIY Postage Stamp Perforations

video DIY Postage Stamp Perforations

This is a video about how to make that perfect postage stamp edge. A really great technique for artistamp makers.
Sorry for the low quality video. YouTube won't accept anything else...for high resolution pictures of the stamps and perforation, you can find them here.

link love goes out to Just Something I Made, who had the original idea. Thanks!

Make sure to check out my blog!

If you don't want to make the perf. needle in this video, send me an e-mail. I use paypal (so you can pay with a card if you want), All I ask is $3.00 (free worldwide shipping).

If you are an artistamp maker, I'd love to swap stamps with you!

10 comments

Aug 19, 2011. 6:36 PMpneumadragonfly says:

btw Brilliant! I also wonder if putting a sheet of aluminum foil in between the sheets of card stock would keep the punch sharpened enough to relegate occasional sharpening unneeded. Maybe? Anyhow, loved this.

Jul 17, 2011. 7:09 AMwatergeorg says:

Not often I am impressed, I am old and have seen almost everything.
But now I am REALLY impressed!

Thank you!

Apr 28, 2011. 8:15 PMapfeffer says:

Love, love, LOVE!

THANK YOU! One reason I stopped making artistamps was because they looked too hand-made for me. This perforation method is one more step towards a 'professional' artistamp.

THANK YOU!

May 2, 2011. 6:23 AM

nepheron (author) says:

Sweet! Please show me your results :)

Mar 31, 2011. 12:53 PM

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Apr 24, 2011. 1:34 PMsaintshortckt says:

hey bro, firstly, AMAZING method. i really like your thinking (i've been reading your blog lately and i love it), i just wanted to ask you two basic things.

1) where does the hole-paper go. i mean the paper bits that are removed, do they go in the under-box of the sewing machine?

2) how did you cut the 1/16" brass tubing? lol

Apr 24, 2011. 5:00 PM

nepheron (author) says:

Thanks! I'm glad you like my projects! The little circles are either trapped between the two sheets of card stock or deposited in the bobbin compartment. Unless they are left to accumulate there for a very long time, they won't interfere with sewing machine's mechanisms. Make sure to occasionally sweep them out (just open up the little bobbin-door and brush them out with your finger.)

You can cut the brass tubing with a jewelers saw (self explanatory) or a file. Just file a notch where you want the pipe to be severed, and then carefully snap it off. File the rough edge flat.