Cross Stitch Heart Picture (Made Using Your Own Stamp)

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  Step 1

  Draw your design on the lino square - for a cross stitch picture you just need a simple X

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  Step 2

  Cut out a square from your lino - the size depends on how big you want to make your picture

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  Step 3

  Take your lino cutter and cut around the outside of your X, to give yourself 4 triangles

  You will need to remove enough of these triangles so that when you put the stamp in your ink, only the X gets ink on it

  Then remove the corners off your X so it has straight edges, rather than pointy

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  Step 4

  Cut 2 pieces of wood - 1 that is slightly larger than your stamp and 1 that is smaller than the first piece

  Glue the stamp to the larger square, making sure it goes on evenly - you don't want it bumpy

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  Step 5

  Flip the larger piece of wood over so the stamp is on the bottom and glue the small piece of wood on top

  Leave the glue to dry - which won't be long if you are using a hot glue gun

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  Step 6

  Take a piece of plain material - I used canvas to give it a vintage feel

  Start near the of you material at the bottom and do your first X with read ink, working 6 in a row

  To either side of this, leave the bottom square blank and do another 6 X's up

  This time leave 2 X's up and do another 6 on either side

  Go 3 up next but this time only do 5 x's

  Lastly start 4 up and do 3 X's

  Then clean the ink off your stamp (or make another the same size) and fill in all the blank space with peach/skin coloured X's
  For this part I didn't have any peach ink to hand so I used a skin coloured pen I had around the house and drew those ones on free hand - because they are much lighter you don't need to worry about them being as uniform

  Finish it off by putting the material in a frame and stretching it out

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