| How to Use Cling Foam® Cushion | |
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Tools required: Using Traditional Acrylic Mounts is easy! If you are starting with new, unmounted rubber stamps, the first thing you will want to do is trim your stamp to the edges of the image area. It is not necessary to trim every little detail of the image area and certainly not inside the negative image area. Ideally, you should leave about 3/32" (2.4 mm) to 1/8" (3.2 mm) of land (flat area) around the raised image area. If you trim the land closer than recommended, your image impression may distort from stamping pressure. You can leave more land than recommended and your stamp will work fine, but the recommended trim dimensions allow you to place your image more precisely during the stamping process. After your rubber stamp is trimmed to your liking, peel back the filmed side of a piece of Cling Foam® sized to fit your unmounted stamp. Apply the adhesive side Cling Foam® Cushion. Leave the cling side paper liner on the cushion when cutting it from the sheet. Place the stamp back on the adhesive and press firmly to adhere it to the cushion. Next, trim the excess foam from around the stamp, flush to the trimmed land of the stamp. The adhesive will gum up your scissors, so keep some alcohol and rag near buy to clean your scissors as needed. There are at least two methods you can use to mount the stamp to the cushion. The second method of mounting stamps is to use the full sheet of Cling Foam® and fill the area with stamps. This method is great for working with a new sheet of untrimmed stamps. Peel back the film liner from the adhesive side and adhere the sheet to the cushion. After applying full sheet of stamps, trim the individual stamps to size as described above. If you work with several trimmed stamps, peel the liner and adhere all of the stamps to the cushion. Before trimming the foam to stamp land, dust talc power on the exposed adhesive. Using a full sheet of cushion and either of these two methods greatly reduces the amount of adhesive that sticks to your scissors. It is that easy! Your rubber stamp is now mounted and ready to use with AcrylView Traditional Acrylic Mounts with Cling Foam®! |
