The Cachet Makers Association invites you to make your own cachets.
Anyone--old or young--can create an interesting, educational, or
entertaining cachet on a first day cover.
Make Your Own Cachets
Page Updated: 21 August 2011, by Cynthia Scott. Email: cmaweb@cachetmakers.org
Cachet-Making Tip of the Month
Text Shapes
Text hand-printed along the outline of a shape offers a way to include a message within your visual object.
1. Draw the shape first with a light pencil line.
2. Print your words in ink along the edge of the shape.
3. Erase the pencil line.
4. Photo-copy or scan the new text image and combine it with other design elements.
Text hand-printed along the outline of a shape offers a way to include a message within your visual object.
1. Draw the shape first with a light pencil line.
2. Print your words in ink along the edge of the shape.
3. Erase the pencil line.
4. Photo-copy or scan the new text image and combine it with other design elements.
Make Your Own
This cachet for an event cover was paired with
stamps from the Classic Aircraft issue.