 Hey guys, how are you today? All right, I've been sitting here doing some more swatches in my Inspiration books and that's what these are from and I also was packing Etsy orders and that sort of thing. I've got some cardboard here from Some boxes I had and or that I used As part of you know shipping for the Etsy shop and I just had an idea Do I know for sure it's gonna work? No We're gonna try anyways Probably want to get some my straight cuts on this I thought maybe this extra cardboard here could be cut into something that we could make Sort of a DIY mark making stamp. Let me get a straight edge and a sharp knife. I'll be right back So we just have ordinary packaging cardboard. This is for my priority mailbox that I had The first thing I want to do is I want one edge of this To be as straight as possible So I have a mini cutting mat a metal ruler and a box cutter And this is by we are memory keepers. I'm going to draw an arrow Like that for the edge that's straight Is that's gonna be important take all precautions when you're using a knife like this keep your fingers out of the way This is not Something that should be done with kids Or you shouldn't let your kids do this on their own. You should do this part for them I have two or three big baskets of DIY mark making tools I love my Mark making tools that I've made I like, you know other mark making tools. I mean I do have my own Sorry, somebody is trying to message me over Facebook about Garbage, but anyways, um, I I have my own line of stamps and stencils and I love them But I also love just making my own mark making tools This should be pretty straight already because this is from the edge of the box So it should be factory cut pretty straight So we're gonna go with that What I'm gonna do is cut these parts off and it's good to put arrows That's probably plenty of cardboard. Okay, so now what I want to do is I want to take some clack tacky glue and some of these extra pieces. Don't get don't throw these away We're gonna use those So what I'm gonna do is I'm going to cut these Let's take some glue Put some glue on here these together gonna glue at least two together Make sure that edges straight and I'm gonna do two and two and I'm gonna do all of these into two and two until I run out of pieces and I'll be right back Okay, one of the things about being on YouTube you have to block people a lot anyway So we've got our bigger pieces here with the straight edge marked with an arrow And then I took the rest of the scraps of cardboard and I glued two of them together also We're gonna sandwich one of these littler pieces like up towards the non-straight edge of the bigger piece like that Then we're gonna put some more glue put it on the table so all those edges line up making a cardboard sandwich You have to use a coupon soon to get some more tacky glue So you want to keep doing that Until you start to have something that looks like that and Once you get all your pieces sandwiched together and straight I recommend putting something heavy on top of it while the tacky glue dries Keeping all those straight edges is even with each other as possible is sort of key So I'm gonna do that. I'll be right back Okay, well, it's not completely dry yet. It is working And it's just a nice little stamp that makes an interesting series of lines and You get some of the texture from the cardboard So that's pretty cool. So I'm gonna let it dry completely And then of course, I'll be playing with it some more using it on pay papers journal pages or whatever. I Mean, this is just scrap cardboard so it and a little bit of glue So if it didn't work out it didn't cost me anything So what do you have laying around your house or your art room that you could refashion into something that makes a Markmaking tool think about it. Give it a try. I think you might find something really interesting that you really love I've got baskets full of these. I love them. They're my favorite things. Anyway, that's it for today I hope it gives you some ideas of what you can do I'd love to see you start a conversation about this over in my Facebook group a life of art and self-expression What are your favorite mark making tools leave a comment in the description below or Start a conversation over in the Facebook group or something All of my relevant social media links my Etsy store and everything is in the video description along with my happy mail address So check it out. Don't forget to like share and subscribe and above all go out and have a great day Do something nice for yourself because you deserve it find some interesting homemade mark making tools And let's see what kind of fun stuff we can make. That's it for today. See you later. Bye guys