I'm still waiting for 2 sets of images to arrive, plus additions to the others. I've packed up all I can and have shipped all that were completed. Below you can see how my coffee table looked Friday night (yes, that's a glass of wine) and then there's how things looked this morning before my postal run. There's nothing more I can do until the Brown truck pulls up with more rubber. So.....I had to play. Somebody stop me! (See STREET TEAM, link on right, for more tags)
I'm an impulse stamper. I wanna be able to grab the thing and use it. So I mount all my stamps on foam. This nice thick stuff is actually a gardeners kneeling pad. When you have your stamp mounted on this you can grip it like a wood mount, and it also gives you the cushion you need. Cheap and easy. Trim the rubber close to image. Cover the back of rubber, and one side of the foam with contact cement. Let both surfaces dry. Then lay out your images on the foam. This makes for a tighter bond. (I use gel formula contact cement by Dap, found at hardware stores.) This is the KEY....you have to use a sharp utility blade to cut the foam. If it's nice and sharp the foam cuts beautifully, but if the blade gets dull you'll get jaggedy yucky uneven lines.
Then I store my mounted stamps in those clear plastic box frames.
