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Potato Prints
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Potato Prints

Simple stamps -- often created from household materials -- put your creativity on display and dress up everything from wrapping paper to window sheers.

Potatoes can be used as decorative stamps for personalized gift cards and tags. The best potato prints even have a painterly quality reminiscent of impressionist art.

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Button Stamp Gift Wrap Photo: Sang An
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Button Stamp Gift Wrap

The pretty, mismatched buttons you've been saving in your sewing box make a stylish new impression when used as "rubber" stamps to decorate stationery and wrapping paper.

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Stamped Stairs
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Stamped Stairs

Add an element of surprise to a staircase with a pretty stamped print.

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Rosy Stationery
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Rosy Stationery

Leafy vegetables make great-tasting salads -- and sumptuous floral-shaped stamps, too.

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Poetic Wrappings Photo: Formula z/s
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Poetic Wrappings

Let your gift speak volumes by stamping the ribbon with your favorite quote, poem, or expression.

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Stamped Party Decorations
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Stamped Party Decorations

If you're planning a child's celebration, creating a theme from scratch can be as simple as selecting fun paper and rubber stamps.

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Pencil Stamps
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Pencil Stamps

Instead of using your pencil eraser to make marks disappear, turn it into a stamp and make playful pictures appear on cards and wrapping paper.

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Wipe-Off Stamp Art
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Wipe-Off Stamp Art

For holidays, stamped designs on glass add a unique touch to a candleholder or votive, and are remarkably easy to remove.

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Stamped Leaf Linen Sheers
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Stamped Leaf Linen Sheers

Impress colorful symbols onto linen sheers for season-appropriate style.

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Imprinted Velvet Monograms Photo: Johnny Miller
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Imprinted Velvet Monograms

Elegant millinery flowers and ribbons imprinted with monograms make lovely adornments for boxes and gifts.

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Stamped Book Pages
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Stamped Book Pages

Stamped designs or messages on page edges add flair to a hardcover book.

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Apple-Print Bag
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Apple-Print Bag

The cut side of an apple half, dipped in candy-colored paint, can be stamped onto otherwise ordinary canvas tote bags and backpacks.

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Block Print Cards
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Block Print Cards

Create multiple cards using the technique of block printing, which involves transferring an ink impression of a design carved in wood, linoleum, or other engravable medium to another surface.

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Stamped Wrapping Paper Photo: CHARLES MARAIA
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Stamped Wrapping Paper

It's easy to create elaborate designs on wrapping paper using a rubber stamp and an ink pad.

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