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Colorful Stamp Paperweight
By Carmen Horn

Cover a rock with used stamps to make a colorful paperweight.

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What you need:

  • rounded rock

  • used stamped envelopes

  • scissors

  • water

  • waxed paper

  • glue


How to make it:

  1. Select a rounded rock.
  2. Trim around the stamps on used envelopes. Soak the stamps in water to remove them from the paper, then set them on waxed paper to dry.
  3. Glue the stamps to the rock, brushing glue over them as you go.