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Kazeka and I are planning on having an Oldies but Goodies Month (using stamps designed before 2000) as one of our unofficial challenges. I think since this post is getting lots of response, I’ll make that our plan for March. So, keep an eye out for the post.
And for anyone who enjoys using older stamps in challenges, there’s also one out there in blogland - Retro Rubber Challenge. Challenges are fortnightly and vary in type with the requirement to use stamps older than one year being the only common denominator. I manage to play along sometimes.
So, out of curiosity, how are you attaching the unmounted stamps to your platforms? I use Aleenes Tack it Over and Over, but it leaves a mess on my platform lid. Also tried double sided tape , which also leaves a mess. I don't use EZ mount because the bulk makes them almost as hard to store as the wood mounts. Aleenes worked well with my clear blocks but the adhesive just seems to stick to my Misti lid and not stay on the unmounted rubber, as it does with a clear block.
Karen
Purple Onion Designs sells clear mounting stamps. I believe it was wavejumper who turned me on to them (thank you!). I can get a few stamps on them at once and they work well. The only issue I have is getting the backing acetate sheets off. https://stores.purpleoniondesigns.co...unting-stamps/
Yes and yes and yes, @Bohodiva I have to laugh when the adoring fans ooh and aah over techniqes and tools that we used years ago. Just like slimline cards. I've been making those for years! Ta-da! They've re-invented the wheel! LOL
How many of you had the original moldable foam blocks that came in a variety or shapes and sizes?
I had to chuckle when I saw Jennifer McGuire and Simon Hurley promoting the moldable foam blocks. I have those! They must be 15 yrs old but still work.
And, do you remember when "sanding" paper was a trend? I watched JM's video on popped embossing last night using a sanding block on raised impressions...I remember when that was the trend 10-15 yrs ago as well, we just used fine sandpaper on white core cardstock. Do you remember? Now Paper Artsy is coming out with special set of "sanding blocks" for the technique. lol, lol...I already have sanding blocks for my finger nails. https://youtu.be/GZiWPCZseOM
And that is why I am a craft supply hoarder....sigh. Yes, I have two of those moldable foam blocks for making textured impressions. A friend of mine was tossing hers out years and years ago and I caught her before she got rid of all of them. Have I even used the two that I saved? I think you can guess the answer to that...but I still have them!! Oh, and I bought a sanding block for sanding edges and embossed impressions years back as well, and still have that. In fact, I was going through my tools in the craft room this last week and found my sanding block. Didn't even realize that it's a "thing" again.
Karen
This thread was fun to read. My very favorite oldie has not been mentioned yet -- Posh Impressions by Dee Gruenig. Way back, late '90s she was often on The Carol Duvall Show and I loved watching her stamp. I shopped at her Orange County stores a few times and did samples for their website, kind of an early version of a design team. I had a ton of those stamps but, sadly, most got thrown away with my last purge. The rubber was badly cracked and the foam on the foam mounted ones was brittle and crumbly. I think if I had used them more, ink and proper cleaning could have saved them from the trash.
Mary Beth
This thread was fun to read. My very favorite oldie has not been mentioned yet -- Posh Impressions by Dee Gruenig. Way back, late '90s she was often on The Carol Duvall Show and I loved watching her stamp. I shopped at her Orange County stores a few times and did samples for their website, kind of an early version of a design team. I had a ton of those stamps but, sadly, most got thrown away with my last purge. The rubber was badly cracked and the foam on the foam mounted ones was brittle and crumbly. I think if I had used them more, ink and proper cleaning could have saved them from the trash.
Mary Beth
Oh yes, I remember Dee Gruenig collection I had several of her stamps, books, and the Marvy brush markers. And, Carol Duvall was one of my favorite shows, it would be nice to see her reruns.
Yes and yes and yes, @Bohodiva I have to laugh when the addoring fans ooh and aah over techniqes and tools that we used years ago. Just like slimline cards. I've been making those for years! Ta-da! They've re-invented the wheel! LOL
When you think about... a lot of these new designers with companies were probably "babies/toddlers" when we started stamping. They're re-marketing old products for a new generation of stampers.
I've noticed the re-marketing trend with fashion as well. I recall reading somewhere the fashion trend cycles repeat every 25 - 30yrs... We're seasoned, experience stampers, we've been there, done that, and have products to prove it.
Mary Beth, I have some of the old Posh Impressions stamps in my stash still. Fortunately, most of them have stood the test of time, but a couple of them had to be tossed out because of the same issues you mention. I think that many of us were not aware of the importance of cleaning the old ink off the stamps before storing them, and the rubber deteriorated. I know that pigment ink can be really damaging, especially the metallic ones. I've had metallic pigment ink completely ruin several of my old Anna Griffin stamps.
Dee Gruenig was such a hoot on her videos. She obviously had a blast doing her demonstrations, and that made people want to buy her products. How fun to be on her early design team.
Karen
Talking about Dee Gruenig made me think of Suze Wienberg. I still have a big jar of Ultra Think Embossing Enamel. Anyone else remember melting it and stamping into it before it hardened to made embellishments?
Talking about Dee Gruenig made me think of Suze Wienberg. I still have a big jar of Ultra Think Embossing Enamel. Anyone else remember melting it and stamping into it before it hardened to made embellishments?
I had forgotten all about UTEE and using a gadget called Melting Pot. Then I found mine from early 2000's while packing for a move. Not sure I will ever use it again but I couldn't throw it our.
Mary Beth
I've still got my UTEE and my melting pot. I need to use that UTEE again, and I use my melting pot to make candles sometimes. Wow! Dee Gruenig, Suze Weinberg, Carol Duvall! A nice trip down Memory Lane! I learned so many techniques and got so many ideas from them. I really miss the Carol Duvall show.
Talking about Dee Gruenig made me think of Suze Wienberg. I still have a big jar of Ultra Think Embossing Enamel. Anyone else remember melting it and stamping into it before it hardened to made embellishments?
Oh yes, I remember Suze. I saw her demo in person at one of the many conventions I attended.
I have a jar of her UTEE, that is decades old and never used, lol...It was one of those conventions purchases..
I also saw Suze Weinberg in person. In fact, it was the very first in- person demo I saw at my first stamp show when I was a fairly new stamper. What great memories. I was in awe at that show. It was huge- so much to take in and I think I just walked around in a daze because I had finally found my people haha.
I've still got my UTEE and my melting pot. I need to use that UTEE again, and I use my melting pot to make candles sometimes. Wow! Dee Gruenig, Suze Weinberg, Carol Duvall! A nice trip down Memory Lane! I learned so many techniques and got so many ideas from them. I really miss the Carol Duvall show.
I agree! A nice trip down memory lane! A really fun thread to read!
Talking about Dee Gruenig made me think of Suze Wienberg. I still have a big jar of Ultra Think Embossing Enamel. Anyone else remember melting it and stamping into it before it hardened to made embellishments?
YES!!! And I also still have one of those big jars of UTEE, about half full : )
I remember most all of the stamp companies mentioned in this thread and still have many of my oldest stamps. My original favorite companies were PSX, Penny Black and Impression Obsession. I still buy frequently from PB and IO (I love the images Dini does!).
This thread is so fun; going down memory lane!
__________________ Claudia Splitcoast Fan Club Member
Here's a few cards made with old PSX (1996) and Hero Arts (2007) red rubber stamps.
They've been unmounted and stamped with TH stamp platform.
Sorry I don't know why the hummingbird image is loading upside.
YES!!! And I also still have one of those big jars of UTEE, about half full : )
I remember most all of the stamp companies mentioned in this thread and still have many of my oldest stamps. My original favorite companies were PSX, Penny Black and Impression Obsession. I still buy frequently from PB and IO (I love the images Dini does!).
This thread is so fun; going down memory lane!
Here's a few cards made with old PSX (1996) and Hero Arts (2007) red rubber stamps.
They've been unmounted and stamped with TH stamp platform.
Sorry I don't know why the hummingbird image is loading upside.
Love the cards. Is the hummingbird a Stamps Happen stamp?
As I continue down un-mounting Lane...I am have all kinds of nostalgia. Posh Impressions, Stamp it!, Comotion, some All Night Media with classic Pooh images, PSX, old Magenta, Great Impressions, Outlines, old Judikins, Embossing Arts, Ann-ticipation, G-rated, Lockhart, The Stamp Pad, old A-muse, old Penny Black and more...the key word here is old! I am realizing probably 95% of my wood is at least 20 years old. The good thing about ebay.
Some companies are still here-Hero, Stampendous, Penny Black, Hampton Arts etc.
Of course looking around my space is a flashback...the Stamp a ma jig lives in my desk top tools jar, a lightbox is to my right on a shelf, etc...
__________________ Margot
I am a proud fan club member
I've been checking out the wood mount stamp offerings on ebay. I've purchased a few from favorite companies that are no longer in business, and I'm not purchasing any stamps that I've donated over the years.
Speaking about nostalgia, don't forget Aleene's Creative Living show. Anyone ever do the paper bags covered with her glue and then burned with a candle flame so it would look like metal???
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I've been checking out the wood mount stamp offerings on ebay. I've purchased a few from favorite companies that are no longer in business, and I'm not purchasing any stamps that I've donated over the years.
I can recommend some sellers if you are ever interested.
__________________ Margot
I am a proud fan club member
I remember about 15 years ago going into the store Viva Las Vegas while I was in Vegas and I was like a kid in a candy store! They had a huge bin of all unmounted stamps and you just got to pick through them! I was there for HOURS!
A number of years ago--9 maybe--my husband and I went to Vegas for a vacation, and I was so excited to be able to go to Viva Las Vegas. As it turned out though, I ended up getting sick with a bad respiratory infection before we had gone to the store, but we took the bus anyway and got to the store. When we arrived, they told us their manufacturing plant had been broken into that morning. We could still look around in the store of course, which I did as much as I was able. But I was feeling so lousy, we really couldn't stay long at all to really look around. Thinking back now, I can barely even tell you what the store looked. I do remember there being a large metal can in one of the corners, and there was a large dead bug in it. Otherwise, I just didn't have the mental ability to look through piles and piles of stamps. It was really heartbreaking to think I couldn't even enjoy it. I did end up with one of their little trademark pink flamingos, however, several years afterwards, my cat the chewed the legs/base off it.
And that's my Viva Las Vegas story!!
__________________ Brenda
<-My sibling kitties, Milo and Rousseau
