I've made a number of my own "stamps" from the extra rubber (... I just made a great one that looks like a harlequin bg from the extra pieces on more petal prints). It's such a waste to throw those big pieces away!! :oops: Anyway, I use a number of things to mount them...
1. For a large one like the one I just mentioned, I'll buy a $1 stamp from AC Moore or Mikes (the cheepest I can find) and heat it for 10 secs in the microwave, then peel off the yucky stamp from the bottom and the clear cover with the image from the top, then mount my re-cut scraps. Then I use stazon to stamp the image on a piece of clear packing tape, or a permanent label, and voila! ... a new stamp.
2. For smaller images, like my own set of shapes, I used the bags of wooden blocks that come hanging in the wood section of mikes. In fact, I often glue those blocks together with a little tacky glue (being careful to have a flat surface to line allign them first)
3. For little bitty ones, like the tiny stem off my strawberry or something I've separated from the main stamp I use a small cork (also available at Mikes). ..I got that idea from a friend!
4. If you know someone who does any wood work, sometimes they have little scraps that they'll give you.
5. The most unusual source I've used was that I raided my kids wooden block set (it's ok, they're 10 and up now) and found a few that were just the right size for making a stamp. I used long strips to make a striped block, random rectangles to do a BG etc. FUN!
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