This is sort of on topic since I do stamp in my LOs, so thought I'd share my experiences this week with unmounted rubber stamps.
I decided to give it a try. When I was at the rubber stamp convention last year it was all the rage. Selling them unmounted and how to use them unmounted. I stood in line waiting to get in for about 30 minutes and a lady in line next to me yakked my ear off about it. She was very knowledgeable I enjoyed talking to her or listening to her was more like it. :) She said she had stuck all her stamps in the microwave for a few seconds to loosen them from the wooden blocks and then stored all her stamps in binders with pockets. This intrigued me because I have SO many stamps and storing them is a problem. The idea of unmounting them scared me though.
This week I ordered unmounted stamps from Lasting Impressions with Panache
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. Their "We are women" stamps are SO cute. I got 2 grab bags from the site and not only did they come FAST they were an outstanding selection. Next I went to a plastics store and looked through their scrap bin for some plastic blocks about 1/2 an inch thick. I found 3 that I thought would work and they let me have them for free. The plastics lady said she wonder if the window cling plastic would work for this process and gave me a strip to experiment with for free. YAHOO! So, I trimmed the unmounted stamps used temporary mono adhesive and glued them to the window cling plastic. Then I pressed the stamp window cling side down on the plastic block and it stuck on there GREAT! I then proceeded to stamp. It worked out great. Being able to see my stamp through the block helped with placement. Also I just peeled the rubber stamp off the block and stuck the next one on and kept on stamping. I have
13 stamps that fit in a sandwich bag (for now) that would probably take up
1/2 a plastic drawer if they were attached to wood blocks.
Now that I know the process works I'll permanently glued the rubber stamps to the window cling material.
Lynne