I usually prefer to put the stamps on the foam first and cut all together - unless the set has big spaces of rubber between the images, where I'd be wasting a lot of the foam.
If I do cut the images first, I leave extra rubber around them, then stick those to the foam and cut thru both the extra rubber and foam. I just find the cutting much easier if I am going thru both rubber and foam (I use a Tim Holtz scissors).
When I'm trying to save on mounting foam, I cut a sheet of copy paper to match the size of the foam and put the stamps on it face down (so the flat part of the rubber is facing up). Once I have them arranged the way I want, I lay the foam down on top of them and brayer the back of it to make sure the stamps are stuck. Then I cut. Works really well if you have a whole mess of rubber to put on cling at the same time.
__________________ ~~Cheryl, with a "C"
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