Most of the brick and mortar retail stores carry the "mounted"
rubber stamps. These usually come with the foam pad and the pink rubber stamp
adhered to a piece of an oak called a block. They will have the stamped image
on the outside of the block for some easy recognition. This type of the rubber
stamp is the most convenient and the most hassle free way to purchase the
rubber stamps.
These types of the rubber stamps are more expensive and when you
accumulate a lot of them, they become very hard to store unless you are lucky
enough to have a room dedicated to them which is really difficult at times. The
Online stores and the shops will also offer "unmounted" stamps as
well as "mounted." When you purchase these types of stamps, you will
only receive the pink rubber stamp that is not trimmed, put on a cushion, or
have a block. You will have to purchase some kind of mounting system. You will
need special scissors to cut the stamps out and trim them, and then you need
acrylic blocks and a storage system.
It sounds like so much extra work, time, and money right? There is a big
advantage to buying theses unmounted stamp .
Once you have initially purchased the above tools, you will only need to buy
foam cushion and cling pages for the storage of the same. The best thing about
them is that they are about half the price of the "mounted" ones.
Another great advantage is that it takes just a little space to store
them in. I bought a 5" binder and purchased cling sheets. The stamps stick
to the cling sheets and you can make a stamped reference on the opposite side
so you can identify them quickly. As your inventory increases, you add more of
the binders, and cling pages. Soon you will have enough stamps to put into
various categories or different coloured binders. Custom rubber stamp are very widely used for various big and small
businesses.
I have well over one thousand stamps and I cannot imagine them all
mounted to the blocks of the wood that have to be stored somewhere. If you shop
around and do your home work, you can find the items you need to mount your
stamps with on the sale at different times of the year. Buy the binders during
back to the school sales, sign up for some sale notifications at you favourite
online store, and do not be afraid to shop the bargain bins.
There is no right way or wrong way, it depends entirely on your needs,
your time, and your finances for which kind of rubber stamp you want to
purchase.
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