For some time now, I've been been thinking about un-mounting my wooden stamps. Wooden stamps take up a lot of space! I was recently inspired by my stampin sister Linda (http://stampersquest.com/author/linda/) to just do it!
There are some images I will choose to keep on wood. For example, I have several that have colored images on the wood - I want to keep those as a color guide. There are others that may be side & top mounted, or that I just like mounted. As I go through them, I'll decide. One area where I'm moving 100% of mounted to un-mounted - my largest collection of wood mounted stamps - are my Stampin' Up! stamps. Sending a BIG SHOUT OUT to Stampin' Up! for adding un-mounted images to their product line!! They call them "clear," however the images are the same good quality rubber as on their mounted version. You can see through the acrylic block, thus clear. ;o)
Registered: June 3, 2004 Location: Stampin' Heaven Posts: 17769
Mon, Mar 07, 2011 @ 5:41 PM
Best of luck to you in your unmounting! It sounds like you have a very good plan! I am too nervous about unmounting stamps that have been mounted for years but I'm sure it would be way easier to store them! I'd love to see "after" photos when your job is complete! I can relate to using time you could be stamping for finding the stamp set!!!
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