Q for scrappers that stamp...

I sometimes stamp ahead if I am at a crop or a friend's house and borrow a stamp to use on a project I am not creating right then. I will stamp several images and tuck them away for later. Of course, "later", I have to FIND those stamped images ! (I still have some lovely stamped train tracks that didn't ever get onto my pages about a train ride adventure b/c I couldn't locate them when I was creating the page.)

Don't know if it counts as "stamping ahead", but when I work on mixed media backgrounds I sometimes do the layers one at a time with drying time in between, so I may stamp on the cs two or three times in the days before creating the page. I have done the backgrounds at home sometimes to use at crops so I don't need to pack up my wet media or have all the drying time there.

Usually, I don't stamp ahead for pages. If a LO "needs something", I may stamp right on the background, or use a stamp & die set to create an element.

I never pre planned stamps on pges

I never pre-stamp. I never know what I am going to use until I actually play around with papers, embellishments, etc.

Edited to say that when I have ink left on a stamp, I stamp it into an old book to clean off so to speak. Sometimes I cut those book/stamp images out for layouts, cards, mixed media work, etc. I also put extra paint into the same book. I LOVE it and use stuff out of that book a lot.

I don't pre-stamp, but I do have some very large background stamps that I could see myself pre-stamping if I had a layout in mind that I wanted to complete at a crop. Otherwise, I am stamping on the layout during the embellishment phase, or stamping on other pieces of paper and cutting them out to use like die cuts.

I’m the later, too.

i wish I could plan that far ahead but I usually only plan one layout a a time.

Patter that’s a great idea. I think I’ll try that out.

Yes, I have pre-stamped generic stamps like labels and tabs and other items that can be fussy cut - like some of AEs old stamps that were really generic. Kind of like making my own die cut stash.
But most of the time I'm stamping on the background, or on a tag/die cut to put on the layout.

Ooo Patter I love that idea. I have an old hymnal that I've been trying to think of how to incorporate into my scrapping! Now I know.

Okay, for those interested, here is a sample page. I had leftover paint, grabbed a stencil and put it in the book (blue circles). Then I had leftover paint on bubble wrap--used that over the circles (white paint). And lastly, I had ink on a SU wheel stamp. I added that to the circles also. Now I can cut them out and use on anything--card, layout, art journal page, you name it. Now I already have all sorts of texture there (text, bubble wrap, stamp, etc.).  Click image to see details.

You are welcome. Sometimes it's a stamped flower, butterflies, etc., I cut out and use. Here are some butterflies that were in my book that I used on these cards:

I plan page kits for weekend crops - start with photos, then supplies.
I will pack my stamps that I plan to use - cats, alphas, words etc.....so to a degree I do.

But the majority of my stamps I buy are for scrapping.....

The only thing I stamp ahead are journaling spots. I might stamp a dozen or so ahead of time.

Okay, so here is what I did with part of the book paper posted above:

Your pages are beautiful!