Thursday, 12 February 2009

Cheap mounts for your un mounted stamps


Here's a tip that works really well. I know I shouldn't but I just LOVE wood mounted rubber stamps. If, like me, you have lots of un mounted red rubber stamps, the chances are they linger in a box somewhere, and because they are not mounted on wooden blocks, and they just get forgotton. Well, today I went to a shop locally called What! - it's a very cheap import shop everything from matresses to washing powder - with some -standard craft stuff along the way. The sell some wood mounted stamps (complete with ink!) for just 99p each. The design of the stamp are quite boring ('Noel' , 'Mon Amour' etc.) but the black sponge mount covers the whole of the 4.5 cm x 6 cm stamp. So what I did was buy some, rip off the naff rubber stamp and replace it using superglue with my own precious rubber stamps. Then I just printed off a label with the image on it and stick it over the top. See the photo. Works a treat! Obviously I am tied to the size, but I will definitely be mounting more stamps like this for my collection.

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