Depends upon what you consider easy and cheap. I'm in the middle of this process and it's a lot of work.
1. Unmount the stamps, some come off easy, some don't. Those that don't you have to deal with an icky gooey mess. Some come off of the wood easy, some come off of the foam easy.
2. Stick on ez mount 1/16 or 1/8. It's like working with a jig saw puzzle trying yo get the maximum number of stamps on a sheet.
3. Cut out with either Kai (super sharp) scissors or a hot knife.
4. Figure out how to organize, i.e. categories: words, flowers, veggies, etc.
5. Decide to use CD cases or movie DVD cases, baggies, etc
6. Stamp each image that will go into storage solution. This becomes:
A. index of what is in case, front cover and
B. where the stamp goes back to, back cover
C Also becomes table of contents, when searching for a particular stamp. (You can either look at all the cd cases or flip through pages in a binder when trying to locate a stamp.)
What needs to be purchased:
Hot knife from Amazon $14.10
Clear CD cases 12 for $3.99 + Tax at Target (if you can wait order CD jewel cases and DVD movie cases from
www.rima.com, cheapest)
EZ Mount 1/8" thick from ebay seller Simple Treasures Collage, 10 sheets for $31.00, (for those stamps that come off of the foam easy)
EZ Mount thin 1/16" from Sunday international $4.00 p/sheet, 5 sheets + shipping (for those stamps that don't come off the foam easy, but comes off of the wood easy)
Storage solution for all the CD and movies DVD cases you have just put all of your 300+ stamps into
Acrylic blocks in various sizes for the stamps, most of these needs to be purchased on line.
So is it easy and cheap? Depends upon what you consider easy and cheap. It's very time consuming, but once I'm finished I should have more space in my tiny 10' x 8' craft room.
P.S. Then you have to figure out what to do w/all those wood blocks!!!!