How to Cut Stamps

Video Transcript

"Now that you have your wooden blocks and your stamps coordinating with each other, we're going to get ready to go ahead and cut them. What I like to do is take off the majority of the rubber first. You try to cut in straight lines. You don't want to cut in circles. You're just going to trim. Trim a little bit as you go following the design of the stamp. If your scissors ever get gooey, and they possibly can from the adhesive on the backing on these, I just use some kind of glue adhesive. Take a little cotton ball, rub them on them, and clean them up. Your scissors need to stay sharp. Now I've gone around once and I'm just going to go back. I see a couple of places that I like. I cut my stamps pretty deep in. I like to cut them once and be done with it. Now I think that I'm pretty much done with this stamp. I'm going to go ahead and peel off the backing of it. There's a couple of ways you can lay this stamp down. I'm a right handed stamper. What that means is when I set my block down to stamp, I like my rubber image here to be on this side. My sister is left handed, so she'll mount hers on the other side. Some people like to mount them dead center in the middle. That's where having the wood blocks and assembling them yourself comes in handy because you specify them to your needs."