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Who doesn’t love a good passport stamp?

{Not my passport}

Since I’m about a week away from my big move to Amsterdam, I have had a couple of chances to look through my passport at all the different stamps and visas I’ve collected over the years. So I’ve also become convinced that it would be a brilliant idea to make personalized travel stamps, and my fabulous event planner/bridesmaid, Laura, convinced me it was not only a good idea, but also a doable one. I know that travel themes for destination weddings are pretty cliche, but they can be so gorgeous. Besides, I don’t plan on having a travel-themed wedding, just a few travel-inspired details here and there.

Here are the stamps I made in Paint…

The problem is that I am not sure how I would go about getting these designs onto a rubber stamp. From what I can tell there are three choices:

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1. Complete DIY.

By that I mean I found a number tutorials about carving your own stamps. Here is one from Etsy, using a block of linoleum, and one for carving stamps out of erasers. There are also a number of make-your-own-stamp kits available on the market.

2. Semi-DIY

This would mean designing your own stamp and having someone else make it, on a website like Simon Stamps.

3. Personalized Stamps

I would guess that there are a number of Etsy stores that have pre-designed stamps that they could personalize.

In the alternative, I could just do a psuedo-stamp, which would be more consistent and probably much easier. If I remember correctly, Miss Piglet used a Gocco and Miss Sushi printed travel stamps in her passport save the dates, but has anyone done old-fashioned rubber stamps?