How to make your own stamps

One of the responses from the how do you mark your page? Facebook page called for a dust cover. I felt that i wanted to use letter press as i enjoy the process but felt limited by the selection i have access to in the print studio, as i also enjoy typography i felt that i would like to create my own letters. After alot of thinking i came up with the solution.

You will need:

wood blocks (make sure they are the right sizes, or cut your own to size)
Sheets of foam
A marker pen
Scissors
PVA glue

Mark out your letters on the foam sheets with the marker pen, make sure they are wide enough and simple enough to cut out with scissors. 

Mark out your letters with pencil onto the wood and cut it to size. 

Attach the foam letters to the wood blocks using PVA glue and leave to dry.

(make sure that you stick the letters the 'wrong way round' so that when you print them they will look right.)

Once the stamps are dry they are ready to use. 

I used the stamps i had made to create the dust cover for my final book.