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Another "Unmounting my wood mounted stamps" thread..
So I decided to unmount my stamps. At least starting slowly so that way i didn't have to re-attach a million stamps to my wood blocks. I have to say I hate them so far!
I started with some of my Studio g $1.00 stamps, and I just can't keep going. I love the look of some of my wood mounts, and I know I paid a good penny for a lot of them too. I have a lot of Hampton Arts and such, that although I don't use them often, I just can't bring myself to umount them knowing they look so pretty and knowing I spent 10.00 - 15.00 on them each :(
Anyone else in this dilemma only because you like the look of the wood mounts, but hate the storage space they take up?
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I love my wood mounts....couldn't ever take them apart. I like also that they are ready to go! I guess I just deal with the space issue but only have about 65 sets of wood mounted and about 30 singles....
I would never unmount my stamps. I have a ton of unmounted too, and I love those. I guess it's just not worth the hassle to me. I just deal with the storage issue, which doesn't bother me either.
I am 80% or more unmounted but can't bring myself to unmount my house mouse.
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While I never thought I'd say it, I couldn't be happier with my unmounted stamps. But, if you prefer the blocks, stick with it.
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I am another vote for keeping them mounted. I do use some unmounted (came that way) but very much prefer the mounted ones. Just like the way they feel and that they are ready to use when you need them. I even bought some blocks from someone else so that I can mount some of mine that came unmounted. Space is of course an issue but not so much that I would consider unmounting. I have a ton of stamps that will all stay mounted.
I'm on the fence about it. I bought some stamp display shelves that my RSS was getting rid of, but my studio is in the basement and I'm limited in the walls I can attach the shelves to easily. I love the idea of unmounting, but I love the feel and ease of the wood blocks.
If I do unmount, I'm stealing Shannon's idea for using the blocks. That is beautiful!
If mounted works for you, do it. You should enjoy the entire experience of stamping and for you that includes the beautiful wood blocks.
For me, unmounted is the. I'm just too lazy to unmount the 800-900 mounted stamps I do have. But I don't like being able to see through my block at all and hardly use my mounted stamps for that reason. And I like being able to have ALL my stamps in the CD cases at my fingertips rather than hunting through drawers looking for just the right wood one.
I unmounted all of my SU stamp sets and it was well worth it and I don't regret it. However, I still have some single mounted stamps on wood and I just put them in very large jars and store on a shelf. It looks cute I think. I prefer to have sets in my CD cases rather than singles everywhere so it's just easier for me to keep the singles mounted.
So I decided to unmount my stamps. At least starting slowly so that way i didn't have to re-attach a million stamps to my wood blocks. I have to say I hate them so far!
I started with some of my Studio g $1.00 stamps, and I just can't keep going. I love the look of some of my wood mounts, and I know I paid a good penny for a lot of them too. I have a lot of Hampton Arts and such, that although I don't use them often, I just can't bring myself to umount them knowing they look so pretty and knowing I spent 10.00 - 15.00 on them each :(
Anyone else in this dilemma only because you like the look of the wood mounts, but hate the storage space they take up?
Stick with what you like, and you'll use your stamps more, and that's what it's all about, eh?! :-D
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I also started unmounting my versed stamps. The wood blocks works for images but I can never get the verses straight after I spent all that time on the image. Where is the best site to purchase the EZ foam mounting sheets? I need to buy in bulk!
I have mostly mounted stamps and a good quantity of unmounted rubber and clear stamps. I have to say there are times when I really like the clear stamps--as far as lining up the images goes--but am still struggling to "love" my unmounted rubber stamps. For me, it's a pain to hunt up the right size block and being unmounted isn't a guarantee that I'm going to line anything up straight! Lol! Don't feel guilty for not loving the thing so many others do. If mounted works better for you and gives you a more pleasurable stamping experience--just do it!
I, too, am on the fence about unmounting my stamps. I am running out of room, but am nervous about taking them apart since I have invested so much money into them! Someone suggested starting with the stamps sets that I don't care for as much, and see what I think. I like the idea mentioned here of starting with the $1 stamps. I have the same question as Craftyohmom: where is the best place to buy EZ mount in bulk? Thanks for everyone's input!
I had to unmount my SU stamps - I just couldn't have kept as many as I wanted if I didn't unmount. It was a little weird at first but the more I did it the easier it got. I think what helped was to start using the unmounted ones - once I realized that I was getting a great image , it wasn't an issue anymore. I realized it would make storage and organization easier and allow me to purchase other stamps. That's when I finally unmounted things like Changing Seasons, and other older sets. And the whole time I did it, I kept telling myself that what I really wanted were the images, I still had the images, I wasn't hurting the images!! LOL!! I felt insane.
I started unmounting over a year ago, I'd say - I only started stamping just over two years ago so it wasn't long after that. And I'm thrilled with it and would have been out of space and very frustrated if I hadn't. But even so, I only recently unmounted my SU background stamps. I have big blocks for my CHF backgrounders and scrapblocks anyway. What a relief to not have that big stack of wood!
I did reserve a storage drawer that's about 18 x 15 x 9 inches for wood-mounted stamps. Thomas Kinkade, House Mouse, Rambling Ted, some Penny Black, PSX and miscellaneous artsy stamps are in there. Right now I don't have a need to unmount them and the color index labels are beautiful on some of them, I want to keep them in their original state.
I really did go through what you are now - but then most of my unmounting was SU stamps that I hadn't had that long anyway. The unmounted stamps I have from other companies were purchased as bare rubber or cling-mounted. It sounds like you have quite the collection of individual stamps and it's hard for me to say just go for it as I feel your pain here, but I don't think you'd have started this thread if you didn't really want to take advantage of having more space.
Maybe you could compromise? Can you keep some mounted and unmount others? Some you mention you don't use that often - could you make a display to really enjoy the beauty of the stamps and feel you've acknowledged your appreciate of them?
You say you hate it so far ~~ because of getting rid of the beautiful wood and labels on them? Maybe with some that you've unmounted, you could stamp them out, color them if appropriate, and start either an index binder for your own enjoyment as well as organization?
I'm the first to advocate unmounting as it was a great choice for me. But I don't think anything about stamping or stamps should make you sad. Maybe it isn't the best choice for you. Have you checked out the gallery for stamping spaces and maybe more ideas for storage or display of your stamps?
I'll be curious to see what you end up doing so please post again whenever you decide. Please let us know - I hope you find a solution that you can be really happy with?
(sorry if this post is long and all over the board -lots of distractions, etc., but it's a good topic to discuss and I'm sure there are others who feel the same way ;)
This is incredibly fabulous. I wish I had seen this before I peeled up the labels and put them on CD cases -- this is the coolest thing. Really really pretty. If I ever *have* to unmount the ones I haven't done yet - I'm going to do something like this ;)
ETA: I have a long post above - and had many distractions from my daughter as I wrote it. I have to say it's embarrassing and I apologize for grammatical and punctuation errors! That sort of thing just bugs me and usually I can catch them and edit - too late now.
most of my stamps are now on halos as I add new ones to our line. occasionally i will put one on wood, i did the other day for one i will use on postal labels on packages cuz its sort of a logo id like to stamp on the packages. i put one stamp on both sides of the wood to save space. acrylic vs wood saves you about 75% of your space. i love the "see thru the block" that acrylic systems give me. i ran out of space with wood, but you will always find folks who cannot part with wood stamps. to each their own
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Another "Unmounting my wood mounted stamps" thread..
