STAMP GUIDE
From everyday planner icons to tiny illustrations, decorative borders, dates, numbers, and playful designs, stamps are an easy way to add personality to your journals, planners, letters, and creative projects. They can be used on their own for a simple accent, repeated to create patterns and borders, or layered with different designs and ink colors to build more detailed illustrations. Whether you are decorating a weekly spread, adding a little detail to a letter, or creating a more expressive journal page, stamps make it easy to add a personal touch without needing to draw everything by hand.
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Rubber Stamps
Classic and versatile, rubber stamps are perfect for everyday journaling, decorating, and adding little illustrations to your pages.
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Self-Inking Stamps
Quick, convenient, and easy to use. Perfect for repetitive tasks, planning, and everyday marking.
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Rotating Stamps
Create repeating patterns, borders, dates, and decorative strips with a simple roll.
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Date & Number Stamps
Perfect for planners, calendars, habit trackers, journals, and keeping track of everyday moments.
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Decorative Stamps
Flowers, food, animals, characters, stationery, and more. Use them to turn blank pages into tiny illustrations.
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Ink Pads
Pair your favorite stamps with different ink colors and create a completely different look.
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One stamp. So many possibilities.
One stamp
Start simple. Use a single stamp as an icon, accent, or little illustration.
Repeat it
Stamp the same design over and over to create a border, pattern, or background.
Layer it
Combine different stamps to build a little scene or illustration.
Change the color
Use different ink colors to completely change the feeling of the same stamp.
Stamp + color
Use outline stamps as tiny coloring pages. Colored pencils and markers can turn a simple impression into a colorful illustration.
For stamps like Plain Stationery's Today's Stamp, Yoseka recommends oil-based ink when coloring with markers to help prevent bleeding.
Stamp + stickers
Mix stamps with stickers, washi tape, and other stationery to create a layered journal spread.
Clear stamps
See exactly where
you’re stamping.
Clear stamps are especially useful when you want precise placement. Place the stamp on an acrylic block, apply ink, and stamp exactly where you want it.
You can also arrange multiple clear stamps on the same block to create your own combinations.
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Stamp
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Still Learning?
Watch these videos to learn more about stamps, stamping techniques, and creative ways to use them in your journals and stationery projects.
All About Stamps!
In this video, May explains and demonstrates four different types of stamps - Rubber / Wooden stamps, Clear stamps, Rotating stamps and Self-inking stamps.
3 Reasons We Love Stamps!
Niko goes over 3 main ways stamps are used in the stationery community, as well as covering some different types of stamps and what materials you need for them.
Addictive Stamps from Shachihata and More New Stationery!
Get inspired to experiment with stamps, colors, and layers to create your own unique stationery designs.