Unmounted Stamp Tip

Today I was working on some card fronts for an upcoming CASED With Love swap (photos of the finished cards to come in a later post).

Well I'm making 33 of this one design and I stumbled onto a shortcut/tip that made stamping the greeting easier for me.

I was working with Absolutely Fabulous (from Stampin' Up!) which I have unmounted. Most of my stamps are unmounted and I just stick them onto an acrylic block when I need to use them.

Now we all know that using acrylic stamps and blocks make it so easy to line up images - no need for a stamp-a-ma-jig!

But how about using the block itself to line up where you want your image - or in this case greeting - to go?

I figured out with my prototype card where my greeting should end up and then I just placed it on the block exactly where I needed to stamp it using the block as my guide for lining it up.

Here are some photos:

1. Prototype card with greeting.

2. Adjust greeting stamp on block to line up with where you want it stamped.

3. Using the edges of the card and the block - stamp your greeting exactly where you want it!

How easy it that!

Forgive me if this is something that is common knowledge but I just figured this one out myself and thought there might be others out there that could use the info!