Cat Paw Stamp for Baking or Clay

It's the time of the year again - are you baking cookies, too? I have made a stamp with a cat paw for every baker out there to decorate your Christmas cookies to give them a touch of cat (literally ;) ). You can also use this as a stamp for polymer clay or anything else that you want to decorate.

Model size

The stamp is about 6,6 cm height and has a diameter of about 3 cm (2,6 by 1,18 inches).

Print profile

The print profile is split into two pieces: the handle and the stamp with the cat paw. The handle is printed with a layer height of 0,2 mm and the cat paw stamp with 0,08 mm.

Assembly guide

The assembly is pretty straight forward. You will have two pieces after printing the stamp - the handle itself and the stamp. The handle has some protruding dowels to connect to the stamp:

After printing carefully remove the pieces from your printer and remove the supports on the handle. Try if the handle and the stamp fits together. If not you might need to clean the edges of the dowels with a sharp knife - the handle and the stamp should fit together nicely.

Now apply some drops of glue on the dowels - shown here on the red marked areas:

Now press together the two parts and wait until the glue has hardened and both pieces stay connected together.

Filament recommendation

For the print in the images I have used Bambu PLA matte charcoal and Bambu PLA basic jade white. However you can basically use any filament you want - I also thought about printing the stamp in TPU but PLA worked just fine for me.

If you are unsure about the food-safety of printed items you might want to use a bit of plastic wrap inbetween the stamp and your cookie dough.

Here is an example of one of my finished cat-paw cookies:

Happy baking and happy printing everyone!