Making authentic looking edges on your custom stamps

[Penelope Timm]

Someone asked about making sheets of stamps with perforations. One person suggested using a sewing machine to punch the holes. I saw these Fiskars scissors on Ebay! The blue ones are even named “stamp”! 

[Kiki]

And here are what the scissors I bought for 100 yen in Japan, about one US dollar, each pair, look like :

[Coco Muchmore]

Momkat! You are so far ahead with your Year of the Dragon artistamps!! Woot! Woot!

[Kiki]

That is cool !

I bought scissors for children somewhat like them for 100 yen, about one US dollar for each pair, but it is rather hard to cut with them as they are super cheap ones :-/

[Coco Muchmore]

Keep an eye out for the "mini-pinking" edge, too. It has an even smaller serration edge, as shown. The photo stamp is a conventionally perforated edge, for comparison. Indeed! You don't need a perforator to make great artistamps!

[Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)]

Super nice scissors, I found "crazy scissors" at a toy store here in Greece,

but they are not so perfect:

...they do give my little stamps a "bit-of-an-edge" though :-)

Happy New Year 2024!