Stamping on clothes, fabric, and home decor is a decorative technique used to apply designs, patterns, or text to items. Stamps and fabric-safe inks or paints are used.
To learn more about this popular method of stamping in DIY fashion, textile design, and craft projects, keep reading!
Stamping Clothes
Some key points to keep in mind when stamping on clothing:
- Materials Needed: Clothing (cotton, linen, etc), stamps (wood, rubber, custom made or DIY stamps), fabric ink or paint, and tools like a foam pad or roller.
- Process: The stamp is coated with ink or paint, then pressed firmly onto the fabric to transfer the design.
- Preparation: Pre-wash and iron fabric to remove finishes, place a firm surface under the fabric for even stamping.
- Design Options: Patterns can be repeated, layered or combined with other techniques like embroidery or dyeing.
- Fixing the Design: After stamping, the ink or paint is usually heat-set with an iron or in an old dryer to make it washable and wearable.
- Applications: Used on T-shirts, tote bags, scarves, and more for personalization or artistic expression.
For more ideas to stamp fabric, this is a great page to check out.
Stamping Home Accessories
Stamping isn’t just for clothes! It is also a creative and affordable way to personalize and decorate home accessories.
By using fabric or surface-appropriate inks and stamps, it is possible to transform everyday items into unique, custom-designed pieces.
What is stamping home accessories?
This involves applying decorative patterns or images to household items using stamps and ink or paint. The method is similar to fabric stamping but can be adapted for various other surfaces such as wood, glass, metal, ceramic, and paper.
We have many tutorials below showing how to paint on fabric or home decor.
The Eraser Stamped Tote Bag Tutorial explains how to use any sort of design and the end of an eraser on a pencil to stamp paint on a blank canvas tote. This comes from Domestic Fashionista.
“Too cute!” is what you’ll say when you see the cute dog bandana that is made with fabric stamped with dog stamps. You have to see the photo of the pup. This is brought to us by Rubber Stamps.
Check out the DIY Scalloped Pillow complete with a potato stamping tutorial. It’s hard to imagine this stamping is done with a potato! The potato is an inexpensive stamp on a store-bought pillow!
We can thank Patchwork Cactus for this DIY Scalloped Pillow.
Scroll down this page for a long list of articles and tutorials to help you find the next stenciling project!
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In this post, you will find a variety of fabric stamping projects. Each project will guide you throught the process of creating a hand-stamped piece.
Textile Indie
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Need a teacher gift? What about an apple stamped tote bag that you can craft in less than 30 minutes. Check out the full video tutorial and step-by-step photo tutorial
Totebag Factory
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This festive towel is perfect to give or to keep. Block printing is an ancient art and is a fun way to create and duplicate your designs.
Affiliate Link to Michaels
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With a blank apron and this tutorial, you (or your child) can make a stamped apron using citrus fruit. Perfect project for toddlers, preschoolers and elementary children.
Paper and Glue
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This blogger explains how to make a cute confetti t-shirt with a potato stamping technique.
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You can use this stamping technique on new clothes or to spruce up stained clothes.
Dollar Store Crafts
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This tutorial shows you how to take an inexpensive pair of plain white canvas shoes and stamp them with various floral images and color them with fabric markers.
by Arjita Sepaha Singh on Imagine Crafts
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Learn how to make stamps and then make the stamped fabric into pillows.
Sew Much Ado
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Make your dog a custom DIY bandana for a personalized look on a budget.
RubberStamps.com
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This tutorial explains how you can use any sort of design and the end of an eraser on a pencil to stamp the paint on a blank canvas tote.
Domestic Fashionista
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Here is a tutorial on how to stamp napkins for Thanksgiving or Fall. This same technique can be used for any holiday.
Elle Marie Home
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Yes, that's right! Stamping with real fruit. Learn how here.
DIY Candy
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A step-by-step tutorial on how to make a stamp and then how to stamp the towel.
What's Up With the Buells
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Transform plain canvas shoes into a personal statment with this free tutorial.
RubberStamps.com
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This is a super-easy DIY, a hand-stamped heart apron. It's perfect for your holiday cooking or gifting.
Pretty Life Girls
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Learn how to use a cork to make a heart stamp, then stamp fabric and finally sew it into a tote bag.
Sew DIY
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Customize with rubber stamps the calming scent of lavender bags that can be used to scent dresser drawers, bathrooms, repel moths, freshen sports bags, and even look beautiful on display.
RubberStamps.com
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This fall leaf stamping project takes only minutes to complete and is an easy activity to do with kids.
RubberStamps.com
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Learn this lemon-stamp technique to stamp tea towels or try it on other cloth fabric.
Pop Shop America
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Go to this post to learn how to create a DIY monogram bandana with a rubber stamp.
RubberStamps.com
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This easy pillow tutorial uses a potato stamping technique to make the scallops.
Patchwork Cactus
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Use this tutorial as inspiration to make a beachy pillow.
The Kim Six Fix
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This stamping craft idea is really easy to do with these free instructions.
The English Stamp Company
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Do you want to make some patterned pants? Here is a tutorial on making DIY Stamped Ampersand Jeans.
Julie Measures
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Transform a normal white fabric napkin into a statement piece with this tutorial.
Plaid
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The Country Chic Cottage
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This post explains how to make block stamps with geometric shapes and then use them to stamp a plain canvas tote bag.
Radiant Home Studio
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With these simple instructions, learn how to stamp tea towels. These make wonderful holiday gifts for teachers and coworkers.
Jewels at Home
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This tutorial teaches how to make acrylic paint into fabric paint and then star stamped tea towels. These are wonderful for backyard BBQs and summer picnics.
Pop Shop America
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This blogger used corrugated cardboard to create stamps and then used them to stamp t-shirts. Learn how here.
Pure and Noble
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This tutorial uses an ordinary kitchen sponge to create the stamp design, a blank tote bag, and fabric paint. This DIY craft is an easy one.
Jennifer Rizzo
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This Halloween stamping craft is super simple and can be done with the kids.
RubberStamps.com
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