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Ok..I have read and read and cant seem to find anything to answer my question. I have some unmounted wood stamps. I want to make them into clear mount.
I plan to use the Tombow Mono and vinyl method.
Now the question is...if I have not mounted them...I have not used the sticker either on the wood....can I not put the mono on the sticker (instead of stamping the image on a tissue paper)...and still get the same result?
Does this make sense?
__________________ Heather D www.mamasbugaboo.com for cloth diapers and hand made goods! and retired Stampin Up sets
Heather, that's how I "clear mount" my sets that were designed to be wood mount. Instead of putting the sticker on the wood, I put it directly on the back of the foam the rubber is mounted to. Then I spread a thin layer of mono multi on it, let it dry and voila...clear mount stamps. Awesome.
You would put the re-positionable adhesive over the vinyl after you have glued it to your stamp so that when it dries, it is tacky and then that sticks to your clear block.
This is what I was going to do...I have a stamp..then the foam...then the sticker...then the mono...then the vinyl? What is the order if this is not correct.
__________________ Heather D www.mamasbugaboo.com for cloth diapers and hand made goods! and retired Stampin Up sets
Bugaboo,
Follow what Cincystamper said. You don't need the vinyl if you haven't mounted the sticker on wood. Just put the sticker on the foam side and then brush some mono adhesive (or Aleene's Tack It Over and Over) on the sticker and let it dry. After it's dry take some of the sticky off by putting it on the back of your hand or on your pants.
Karen
You would have rubber, foam, sticker, and then mono multi.
If you don't have a sticker then you would have rubber, foam, vinyl. The vinyl is supposed to be cling vinyl, which doesn't need glue to make it clingy.
I would like to give you a warning on vinyl. It isn't really very clingy. I used what was supposed to be the best cling vinyl on some of my stamps. It's awful. They don't stick to the block and they don't stick to the mounting boards. Then over time it shrinks a bit, pulls the foam back with it and cups the stamps. I am remounting them on EZ Mount.
Oh, darlin', you are not stupid. It's just that there are so many ways of doing this and it seems like people pick bits of each that they like and it just gets really confusing.
All I can do to help is tell you what works for me (I've been doing it this way for at least a couple of years now).
If the sticker and stamp haven't been on the wood, I do just what a previous poster said - put the sticker on the sticky foam and coat with the glue. It works better for me if I trim the sticker first so that there's a border of foam not covered and then spread the glue all the way to the edge of the stamp so it kind of seals the sticker on.
If the sticker and stamp have been removed from wood, I skip the sticker altogether. Back in the day, I did use the double sided sheets of red liner adhesive to attach the sticker to the foam, and it works, but it's a lot more work for not much return. I either just coat the foam directly with the tack-it-over-and-over, or stamp the image on tissue paper, trim it like the stickers so there's a border of foam left around it, stick it to the back of the stamp and then coat the whole thing with the TIO&O.
Also like the previous poster said, after the TIO&O, be sure to stick the stamp to your arm or jeans or something to help lessen some of the sticking power.
Frankly, I don't usually even do the tissue thing, but for the most part I don't care if I have an index image on my stamp. The one exception is for some of my sentiments that are more whole paragraphs than single words.
I know there was a stamper here who used the vinyl; I thought what she was doing was indexing the stamp, coating it with glue and then applying the vinyl - using the vinyl as the cling to keep the stamp on the block. I could be wrong - I didn't pay much attention to that method because I tried vinyl cling on some of my stamps and didn't think it worked all that well (as soon as the stamp got any moisture between the cling & the block, the stamp started sliding around on the block) AND because I'm quite happy with the way I'm doing things now. Like I said, I've been doing it this way for at least a couple of years and I'm happy with how the stamps stick to the blocks, I haven't had problems with the stamps trying to permanently stick to my storage sheets, and it's a lot cheaper than converting everything to EZ Mount. I mean, why throw away perfectly good foam cushion?
Unmounted wood stamps to clear
