Wood Stamps to Acrylic Stamps

I have some I made sticky with Tombow Mono Multi 2-way glue to use in my stamping platform. It's basically the same as scrapnnana said - you just need a glue that dries tacky.

I think there's some kind of cushioning you can add behind the rubber to make it a cling stamp to use with a block or platform.

Club Scrap sells an adhesive formulated for this link

I’m often tempted to do this (unmount my few remaining wooden stamps), but given that rubber is opaque and most purchased cling stamps have the image on the top, I wonder how usable the result really is.

If it makes you feel any better, I probably had far more wood mounted rubber stamps than you have. I had been collecting rubber stamps for 30 years when I converted mine. We were getting ready to move halfway across the country, paying our own expenses, and the weight of the wood required either getting rid of my stamps or converting them. I didn’t want to get rid of my stamps, so it was a great incentive.

I spent a certain amount of time each day that I could in converting them. They are so much easier to use now, especially since I can use the converted stamps with a stamp platform for stamping. It gives a much better image.

Converting my rubber stamps was definitely worth the time it took. They are easier to find, use, and store now.

Forgive me for being an idiot.

I have found the instructions for unmounting stamps using heat. It is now off the block.

I have figured out that Alene's Tacky Over and Over is a product, not a process of using Alene's Tacky "over and over" which is what I thought was going to be a time-consuming process.

There are two bottles in my closest Michael's. Must eat, shower, and depart!

Thanks!

I spread it with a folded piece of scrap paper, but I did cover the whole back. The cushioning rubber was textured, which make me nervous that it wouldn't adhere well.

Shakti - I am wondering if you like this better than Tack it Over and Over? I have used that but I find it leaves a sticky film on my platform or block. If I can find something that does not do this I will tackle all my wood stamps and they will get used. 

I need help...maybe "professional help" but I'm hoping an invisible friends pep talk will do the trick.

I still have the wooden block from the stamp I unmounted floating around my craft room. Sure, it has identifying information...to a company that's long out of business. And the image, which I can't figure out how to get onto the cling back of the stamp now. Why can't I toss this thing?

No residue on my Stamparatus door that I've been able to discern, btw.

Shakti - if you still want to know how to do this:

For stamps where I was able to get the image sticker off the block, I trimmed it very close and stuck it to the back of the stamp before coating it with the Tack It Over & Over (although, I eventually switched to using the Tombo Mono in the white bottle with the green caps which works just as well).

If I couldn't use the image sticker, I stamped the image onto a piece of tissue paper (just white tissue paper like you use for wrapping gifts), trimmed it, and stuck it to the back of the stamp before coating it with the glue. 

The trick to making both of these work is to make sure the image is trimmed closely and there is a border all around it where the repositionable glue is stuck directly to the stamp; otherwise the image starts peeling up off the back of the stamp.

Also, keep in mind that the image is just to give you a clue of what the stamp looks like - there's no way to line it up exactly with the stamp image on the other side. I left the cushion on the stamp if it came off the block intact, so there was usually something sticky for the image to stick to, but on the ones with bare rubber I just used the repositionable glue first (very thin coat), stuck the image onto it and added another coat of the glue over the top.


If you decide to use the EZ Mount cushion, you can stamp the image on the cushion in staz-on before you put the cushion on the stamp, but it's more challenging than it sounds AND the stamps that I did that with, leave a ghost image on the laminated cards that I store them on - and left ghost images on the cd cases I originally stored them in.