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I bought the Looks like spring and when I cut them apart I made a Boo-boo. I should have left the 3 small stamps together as one stamp as the stamp lines up with the Spring Bouquet punch. I worked at it and have all 3 of them back on one stamp pretty well lined up. I wonder if I am the only one that has done that. I do love this set and have worked with it a lot.
Mary in VT
I read a few weeks ago on here that someone did that and their ingenious solution was to punch out the flowers and then take the paper with the punch outs (not the punched flowers themselves, but the left over paper with the holes in them) and put that on the block, then mount the stamps where the punch outs are. I thought it was such a good idea! I did not cut mine entirely apart, I just left little snips of attached rubber so I could mount them, but I wished I had cut them apart after reading that!
I bought the Looks like spring and when I cut them apart I made a Boo-boo. I should have left the 3 small stamps together as one stamp as the stamp lines up with the Spring Bouquet punch. I worked at it and have all 3 of them back on one stamp pretty well lined up. I wonder if I am the only one that has done that. I do love this set and have worked with it a lot.
Mary in VT
Now I'm curious...why does it matter, when the flowers punch out separately anyway... What am I missing???
My SU demonstrator actually mounted each one separately, one on the usual side you'd mount the stamp on, one on one end of the wood mount, and the third on the other end of the wood mount, so she could use each one separately without having to go to the trouble of inking each one separately and then cleaning it before she could use the next one, etc...it seemed like a really smart thing to do....
Now I'm curious...why does it matter, when the flowers punch out separately anyway... What am I missing???
My SU demonstrator actually mounted each one separately, one on the usual side you'd mount the stamp on, one on one end of the wood mount, and the third on the other end of the wood mount, so she could use each one separately without having to go to the trouble of inking each one separately and then cleaning it before she could use the next one, etc...it seemed like a really smart thing to do....
If you stamp the three flowers (say on whisper white or something) you can then punch the stamped flowers out by lining up the punch with the stamped images - it is set to line up perfectly. You can try to punch out first them stamp them, but I would think it would be hard to line up on those itty bitty punch outs...
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The advantage to having them all together where they originally were is that when you stamp the 3 flowers, they're designed to line up exactly with the punch and you can punch all 3 at once as well. And, not only that, they line up with the punch upside down, so you can see where you're punching.
I am glad I read this. I just ordered this set and I probably would have cut them wrong too. A couple of my customers have also ordered so I will have to pass the info on to them. Thanks for the advice
Thank you so much....this makes the it even more exciting than I already thought it was...I am new to this site so am just beginning to find my way around, and fairly new to SU besides (one year)...I have been stamping for 15 years and love that there is always something new and excitig!
Looks like Spring set and punch boo-boo
