November 20, 2007

• Stamp-a-ma-jig

  

  Are there any fellow stamp addict readers out there? I thought I'd share a little stamping tool that made my life tons easier while I was hand stamping the cover of my wedding programs. It's called a Stamp-a-ma-jig and you can get it for about $10 on Amazon. Basically, it's a rubber stamp positioner that will help you to perfectly align your stamp before you commit your ink to paper.

  
  For my programs, I ordered a custom stamp from Impress Rubber Stamps to decorate the cover.

  
  Unfortunately, the rubber image was glued onto the wood block crookedly. The right side was higher than the left which made it very difficult to stamp straight. That's where the Stamp-a-mah-jig came in.

  
  Step 1: I inked my stamp in pink and stamped the corner of the clear imaging sheet by lining up the edges of the stamp exactly with the corner of the imaging sheet. I'd suggest using a darker ink than I did because the light pink was difficult to see.

  
  Step 2: Next, I aligned the imaging sheet to exactly where I wanted the stamp to set on my destination paper.

  
  Step 3: I aligned the plastic "foot" of the Stamp-a-ma-jig exactly with the corner of the imaging sheet so that the corner was squared against it. Then I carefully removed the imaging sheet while securely holding the pastic Stamp-a-ma-jig in place.

  
  Step 4: Then I inked and stamped the image, lining up the corner of the stamp exactly with the corner of the plastic "foot."

  
  Step 5: Since the program covers were a dark chocolate brown, I had to emboss the image for it to be visible.

  
  Step 6: I removed the excess powder.

  
  Step 7: Then I melted the powder with an embossing gun and voila! A perfectly centered stamp.

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