Unmounting Rubber Stamps project

Posted on June 24, 2007 by butterflygail

I searched the internet for instructions on how to take my stamps off the wood blocks and save them in a smaller area. There are instructions out there, but it can be difficult to find! You can buy sheets of unmounted stamps much cheaper than pre-mounted on wood blocks. I have collected a fair amount of stamps over the last 10 years or so and it was taking up a lot of space. Not only that, but I had to keep them in another room from my scrapbook area because I did not have room for them there. I wasn’t using them much because it was too much trouble to get them out!

Last week I started converting my stamps to unmounted ones. I thought I’d try to take them off the blocks and they came off very easily. I have a few that I bought in stores or non-Stampin Up ones that were a bit harder to get off the blocks and I may have to use the microwave for a few seconds and then get a sheet of EZMount (highly recommended). But the majority of mine came off and stuck very well to the window cling sheets I bought at a local office store (these can be used in an inkjet printer).

Here is a link to the pictures I took of the process. The instructions or descriptions are with each picture. Unmounted Stamps visual. (You can view this as a slideshow or individual pictures. You can adjust the speed of the slideshow by changing the amount of time between pictures. )

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Two other ways to store unmounted stamps with cling on the back would be a 3-ring binder and cardstock in page protectors. They cling well to the page protectors. I also experimented and this worked: put packing tape on an index card and they cling to that as well. You may want to tape several cards together to make them stiffer.If you buy a sheet of unmounted stamps (a lot cheaper than premounted stamps), you will have to purchase EZMount foam/cling sheets to adhere your stamps. A great website for that is Sunday International.

I also watched a video on YouTube with instructions for using EZMount. Here is another video for storage in CD cases. Here is another picture of CD stamp storage. This website shows many different methods of storing unmounted stamps.

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18 Responses to “Unmounting Rubber Stamps project”

  1. harmonia, on June 24th, 2007 at 9:45 pm Said:

    Interesting stuff! Great info! Thanks for posting! :)

  2. Bonnie Olson, on June 25th, 2007 at 4:15 pm Said:

    Oh my gosh, this is AWESOM. You did a GREAT JOB. THANK YOU for sharing.

    Thanks
    Bonnie

  3. llynnda, on June 27th, 2007 at 7:14 am Said:

    thank you so much for the excellent photos and description of unmounting and storing stamps. I just, just, just, threw away a number of the large cd cases and now will go and retrieve them. thanks again, Llynnda

  4. Cindy, on July 2nd, 2007 at 11:38 am Said:

    Great idea!! Thank you so much. I have began using clear acrylic stamps and can not go back to my rubber stamps on the wooden block. I can not wait to use this idea on my many rubber stamps. I have one question. I am having trouble finding the clear window decals. Where did you buy the window deals at?
    Thanks Again.
    God Bless,
    Cindy

  5. jerseytjej, on July 4th, 2007 at 5:55 am Said:

    Wow! I was looking through some old files and found a link to this site! Great information, thanks so much for doing the legwork and passing it on! :)

  6. Roni Victoriano, on July 4th, 2007 at 4:49 pm Said:

    Awesome Idea….
    THANKS

  7. Teresa McClary, on July 7th, 2007 at 12:55 am Said:

    Thanks for the great advice. I will be posting a link back to this article from (scr)apropos next week.

    Teresa

    http://www.scrapropos.com/
    http://mind-of-a-mom.blogspot.com/

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  9. Debbie, on July 17th, 2007 at 8:18 pm Said:

    Thanks so much for posting this tutorial. It is just terrific. Like you, I have a truckload of rubber stamps and no room to house them all. Most of my stamps are from Stampin’ Up and the wooden blocks just make the sets so bulky to store. I am so inspired to unmount my stash and do the cd holder thing. It just makes so much more sense to me. I have a small amount of stamps that are too large for the cd cases so I will store them in the notebook system. Thanks again for taking the time to put this together. Debbie

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  11. Grandma Jeannie, on October 31st, 2007 at 5:15 am Said:

    Thank you. I have been trying to get stamps restored and could not seem to “get it together”. This answered all my questions. Appreciate this “Bunches”!!!

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  14. Deb, on December 23rd, 2007 at 7:57 pm Said:

    I came accross your site to unmount wooden stamps. I too have a boat load of stamps from Stampin Up and out of room to store them. I have been working all day to unmount my stamps.

    Great Instuctions -

    Deb

  15. Doreen, on January 7th, 2008 at 5:02 pm Said:

    Hey thanks for some great tips!

  16. Joy, on March 16th, 2008 at 8:27 am Said:

    I just came across this page and I will definetly use this idea. I was trying to figure out a way to organize by newly acquired stamps.

    Thanks Joy

  17. Bitsy, on May 9th, 2008 at 4:26 pm Said:

    I have hundreds of wood mount stamps and a different and unique method to store and find them. I will soon begin to unmount some of them and plan to use the envelope and box method. I will stamp the image on an envelope, record the company, stamp it in my HUGE D-ring binder with the letter and/or number reference for the envelope and put in the correctly labeled box (in order). Any stamp my be in one or many of the sections of the binder (for example in small stamps, flowers and art stamps). It is really kind of hard to explain; wish I could show you!

  18. Bitsy, on May 9th, 2008 at 4:29 pm Said:

    I forgot to tell you that my wood mounts are presently stored in small, flat, clear plastic topped boxes, just deep enough for stamps. The images are in the sections of the binder and numbered; then the stamp is pleaced in a box with the same number.

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