Stamp Boxes

This is a rather simple but really effective little project.

Small decoupage boxes are available quite cheaply from most craft shops now. I collected stamps as a child, and so does my daughter, but for this project I found a bag of stamps in a local Flea Market.

I find that older stamps, not the modern self adhesive ones, work better as you can soak them off the envelope paper without loosing any of the surface design.

After soaking the stamps in boiling water to remove the envelope paper, leave them to dry. Then using PVA glue stick the stamps all over the box, I also use PVA glue as a varnish to coat the whole box, takes a couple of days to fully dry and stop being tacky to the touch, but nice result in the end.

We have made a few, a couple of different themes too, one has nautical type stamps and one stamps relating to flying.

Lining them in a similar way with PVA and coloured tissue paper could turn them into pretty little gifts.