Mounted or Unmounted Stamps which do you prefer?

Here's how I do mine. I cut the rubber close to the image, lay it on the
sticky side of the foam and cut around that with a hot knife and then put it
on the white plastic sheet that I have in the three ring binder. I have
several binders, each for different categories. I hope this makes sense.

SAD


Hi SAD,

I personally keep mine in the cd cases as I know that I probably would
not stamp if I kept them in a 3 ring binder. I am so visual that I
have to see something to get creative and well, that is why I keep them
in cd cases on my workspace.

How do you know what is in each 3 ring binder? Do you index? Do you
stamp each image that you have? I am curious on how you know what you
have. See now curiosity has struck me.

Inky Huggz,

Missy

I'm curious about the cd cases too and it sound interesting. Please tell me
how that's done and how you index them?

As for the 3 ring binders...once the stamps are on the white plastic in the
binder I ink the stamps all at once, lay a piece of white cardstock over the
whole page (that I've punched three holes in) and rub the back side to
transfer the images to the cardstock. The hard part: taking all the stamps
off and cleaning them. Each binder has information on the outside edge that
lets me know what's inside; like Christmas, Easter, Flowers, Manly (not many
of those) etc. I have several flower binders and have to leaf through the
whole lot when looking for something. There must be a better way. Any
ideas stampers?

SAD

On 12/12/06 1:13 PM, in article
, "Roscoe2"
wrote:



Here's how I do mine. I cut the rubber close to the image, lay it on the
sticky side of the foam and cut around that with a hot knife and then put it
on the white plastic sheet that I have in the three ring binder. I have
several binders, each for different categories. I hope this makes sense.

SAD


Hi SAD,

I personally keep mine in the cd cases as I know that I probably would
not stamp if I kept them in a 3 ring binder. I am so visual that I
have to see something to get creative and well, that is why I keep them
in cd cases on my workspace.

How do you know what is in each 3 ring binder? Do you index? Do you
stamp each image that you have? I am curious on how you know what you
have. See now curiosity has struck me.

Inky Huggz,

Missy

Barbara,

It sounds like it's time for you to try EZ-mount. The foam mounting sticks
to the rubber, cut around it and then it has the "sticky' side that you put
onto an acrylic block. One step and easy as pie. I've found that it's
easier on your scissors if you remove the paper backing from the "sticky"
side before cutting. Paper really will dull your scissors fast.

The reason that I put "sticky" in quotes is because it isn't sticky to touch
it just adheres to acrylic easily.

Kare

--

Karen R. Brooks
"stampingmaniac" wrote in message
ups.com...
Thanks. I do that, too, but what about the acrylic (or whatever it is
made of) backing?

The system I bought has a sheet of foam plus a sheet of acrylic (or
whatever it is) backing. I cut the rubber (if needed - some of my
stamps were pre-cut by the manufacturer), then put it on the foam, then
cut the foam to match the rubber, then trace that onto the backing,
then cut out the backing, then stick the backing onto the stamp. How
do the other systems for mounting work?

--Barbara

Wave Jumper wrote:
Hi Barbara, I cut my rubber close to the image so there isn't a chance of
ink getting on the edge of the excess rubber to mess up your stamped
image.

SAD

On 12/2/06 7:15 AM, in article
, "stampingmaniac"
wrote:

I have both unmounted and mounted. Of the UM, both clear and rubber.
The clear do seem to stamp differently, but I wouldn't say worse
coverage necessarily. I'll have to try the fine sand paper trick.
I've never had a problem with the stamps staying stuck to the block,
but I've heard a quick cleaning will restore the "stickiness."

I've just started putting the backings on my unmounted rubber stamps.
It took me forever to do, so I'm really wondering - how do all of you
assemble the unmounteds? Do you cut the backing to match the shape,
like I did (and it took forever!)? Squares would be so much easier if
that'd work. I have a bad habit of always doing things the hard way,
so I'm curious. The stuff I bought wasn't EZ mount, though I think
that's what I'll get in the future when I use up the foam and backing I
have. I also need to get the pages one of these days - right now the
unmounteds are in a drawer in my Crop in Style Storehouse.

--Barbara

Wave Jumper wrote:
Wow...I don't know what kind of system your using but it sounds complicated.
What is it called? Mine is called EZ Mount and there are other companies
that make the same system. One is called Static Cling Mounting Foam and I
know there are other companies around too. The gray foam is sticky on one
side and has a clingy like stuff on the other side that clings to clear
acrylic blocks when you want to use the stamp. When you finish stamping you
clean the ink off the stamp, pull it off the acrylic block then store it in
a three ring binder on white plastic sheets that have holes for the rings.


Whatever my system is, it's definitely not as "EZ." I purchased it at
a stamp convention in 2005. It looked similar, but the clingy stuff
isn't already on the foam, which adds a whole extra step. I'm too
cheap to just trash the stuff I have left and start over, but I'll
definitely look for one of the better systems next time!

I'm reading the binder vs. CD conversation with interest, as I have yet
to decide on a system for storing the UMs.

--Barbara

That's the same system I use and I love it. Someone suggested using a hot
knife to "cut" the foam once it's adhered to the rubber so I had to get that
tool. It works fabulous! No more sticky scissors...and it goes so fast.

SAD


On 12/13/06 7:10 AM, in article , "Tom and
Karen Brooks" wrote:

Barbara,

It sounds like it's time for you to try EZ-mount. The foam mounting sticks
to the rubber, cut around it and then it has the "sticky' side that you put
onto an acrylic block. One step and easy as pie. I've found that it's
easier on your scissors if you remove the paper backing from the "sticky"
side before cutting. Paper really will dull your scissors fast.

The reason that I put "sticky" in quotes is because it isn't sticky to touch
it just adheres to acrylic easily.

Kare

Wave Jumper wrote:
That's the same system I use and I love it. Someone suggested using a hot
knife to "cut" the foam once it's adhered to the rubber so I had to get that
tool. It works fabulous! No more sticky scissors...and it goes so fast.

SAD


On 12/13/06 7:10 AM, in article , "Tom and
Karen Brooks" wrote:

Barbara,

It sounds like it's time for you to try EZ-mount. The foam mounting sticks
to the rubber, cut around it and then it has the "sticky' side that you put
onto an acrylic block. One step and easy as pie. I've found that it's
easier on your scissors if you remove the paper backing from the "sticky"
side before cutting. Paper really will dull your scissors fast.

The reason that I put "sticky" in quotes is because it isn't sticky to touch
it just adheres to acrylic easily.

Kare

Since my earlier post didn't seem to show, I'll try again. What is a
"hot knife"?

It's like a soldering iron; if you already have one with a tip that unscrews
you can buy a cutting tip at the same place you bought the soldering iron
and save money. The one I bought was from Joann's etc. in the wood craft
section and is used for wood burning. It's made by Walnut Hollow and has
several attachments included. The one I use for cutting foam is the hot
knife cutting attachment. I bought the 750 degree temperature kit first but
returned it for the 950 degree kit because it cuts faster. It's like
cutting through butter. You can use the other tips that come with it on
paper, cork, wood etc.

SAD

On 12/18/06 6:41 AM, in article
,
" wrote:

Since my earlier post didn't seem to show, I'll try again. What is a
"hot knife"?

I'll have to check that out. I've been using the HALO (Hook and Loop)
system for my unmounted stamps--the acrylic blocks have strips of loop
stuff embedded in the plastic, and I apply adhesive backed hook stuff
to the backs of my stamps. Cutting through rubber and adhesive is hard,
so anything that might make it easier would be very welcome. I then
store the stamps on photo album pages that I've applied strips of loop
stuff to, and have index volumes where I stamp the pictures by
categories and list underneath the photo album page where it's stored.
I've liked the idea of storing them in CD jewel cases though, sounds
better than the photo albums I've been using, and I could keep the
jewel cases arranged by category and do away with the index I keep!

Wave Jumper wrote:
It's like a soldering iron; if you already have one with a tip that unscrews
you can buy a cutting tip at the same place you bought the soldering iron
and save money. The one I bought was from Joann's etc. in the wood craft
section and is used for wood burning. It's made by Walnut Hollow and has
several attachments included. The one I use for cutting foam is the hot
knife cutting attachment. I bought the 750 degree temperature kit first but
returned it for the 950 degree kit because it cuts faster. It's like
cutting through butter. You can use the other tips that come with it on
paper, cork, wood etc.

SAD

I've still have some UM stamps done with the HALO system but have been
converting them to the EZMount system. I don¹t understand how the CD jewel
case storage works. Could you please explain that to me.

SAD


On 12/19/06 7:00 AM, in article
,
" wrote:

I'll have to check that out. I've been using the HALO (Hook and Loop)
system for my unmounted stamps--the acrylic blocks have strips of loop
stuff embedded in the plastic, and I apply adhesive backed hook stuff
to the backs of my stamps. Cutting through rubber and adhesive is hard,
so anything that might make it easier would be very welcome. I then
store the stamps on photo album pages that I've applied strips of loop
stuff to, and have index volumes where I stamp the pictures by
categories and list underneath the photo album page where it's stored.
I've liked the idea of storing them in CD jewel cases though, sounds
better than the photo albums I've been using, and I could keep the
jewel cases arranged by category and do away with the index I keep!

Wave Jumper wrote:
It's like a soldering iron; if you already have one with a tip that unscrews
you can buy a cutting tip at the same place you bought the soldering iron
and save money. The one I bought was from Joann's etc. in the wood craft
section and is used for wood burning. It's made by Walnut Hollow and has
several attachments included. The one I use for cutting foam is the hot
knife cutting attachment. I bought the 750 degree temperature kit first but
returned it for the 950 degree kit because it cuts faster. It's like
cutting through butter. You can use the other tips that come with it on
paper, cork, wood etc.

SAD