Prom Mafia» stamping http://prommafia.com Prom Fashion Blog Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:15:35 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 DIY Disaster http://prommafia.com/2010/02/diy-disaster/ http://prommafia.com/2010/02/diy-disaster/#comments Fri, 05 Feb 2010 06:37:19 +0000 Queen Bee http://prommafia.com/?p=5711 This just hasn’t been my week. First I got a terrible lopsided haircut from one of those discount salons, and now I can’t for the life of me figure out how to do this diy project! I learned about stamping from my blogger buddy Lindsay over at Shrimp Salad Circus and my attempts have been pitiful.  Here is what stamping is supposed to look like:

From emilinaballerina.etsy.com

From emilinaballerina.etsy.com

Gorgeous, I know. You use metal stamps of letters, numbers, or designed and hammer them onto a pendant. For Christmas I received all the equipment (which is very affordable on Etsy, by the way): stamps, disks, and a metal block.

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I made my first attempt at a fleur de lis and here’s what I ended up with:

how to metal stamp

First try, no big deal, I told myself. I’ll just try it again. Here’s attempt #2.

diy metal stamping

Ugh!

And attempt #3.

metal stamping

Any ideas on what I’m doing wrong?

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