Maybe you've been stamping for years, or perhaps you're new to the craft.  Most rubber stamps you've seen or used were mounted to wooden handles.  As you got more interested in stamping and your stamp collection grew, your storage capacity probably probably did not keep up.  Perhaps you ended up with hundreds, even thousands of stamps and now you have a whole room committed to stamping.  What do you do with all of those stamps?

Using unmounted stamps is an easy and superior stamping method to address this storage scenario.  By unmounting your wood handles and converting them for use with AcrylView acrylic stamp mounts you can reduce your storage space by at least 80%!  Instead of storing your stamps in storage containers, or shelf upon shelf of wall space, you can store your now unmounted stamps in three ring binders, or other book storage methods.  Most stampers will agree that storage space is the primary advantage of using unmounted stamps.

Another great advantage of using unmounted stamps in combination with AcrylView acrylic stamp mounts is the ability to place your image exactly where you want it.  As you can see through the acrylic mount, you can see your printing substrate and impression placement is greatly simplified.

The last reason to think about using unmounted stamps, especially for the beginner, is cost.  Unmounted stamps are flat out less expensive that mounted stamps.  More and more stamp manufacturers are supplying rubber stamps as unmounted, untrimmed sheets of stamps.  This change has been a boom for mail order rubber stamp suppliers.  Not only has the rubber stamp cost come down, the cost of shipping has dropped significantly.

There are undoubtedly other great reasons for using unmounted stamps.  The only reason you need to switch from wood handled stamps to AcrylView acrylic mounts is our great prices!