Clear stamps are all the rage these days and all of the big name companies are coming aboard with their own lines of these fun acrylic stamps.  If they aren’t already your favorite item in your scrapbooking toolbox, acrylic stamps will soon become your go-to suppy when you want to create dazzling pages.  They are easy to use, easy to care for, easy to store and so easy to love!

The Benefits of using Clear Acrylic Stamps:

They are so easy to use-just peel and stick to an acylic block and get stamping.

Clear stamps and blocks make precise placement easy.

The stamps are lightweight so easy to store and transport.

They are economical to premounted wood stamps.

The artistic detailed designs will inspire your creativity to make your own designs with different sets.

At the store, we mostly carry clear stamps from wonderful companies like Crafty Secrets, Imaginisce, Basic Grey, Inkadinkado and Autumn Leaves.  We have a few wood mounted rubber stamps but all the trends definately lead to the clear market.   You get so much more for your money and they take up less space than traditional wood mount stamps.

There are tons of techniques, you can create so many different looks with clear stamps.  You can stamp on cork, stamp on felt, stamp with acrylic paint. stamp on metal, stamp on craft foam, stamp on canvas…the possibilities are endless as you can tell.

A few tips for you that I have learned with clear stamps…never use pigment ink on your stamps only dye inks.  Pigment inks stain you stamps permantly, you can still use them, they are just not very pretty anymore. 

I always keep a box of baby wipes on my work surface to wipe off the stamps as I use them.  This seems to be the quickest most effective way to keep them clean.

I always put my stamps back in the package they came in and try to keep them as air tight as possible, it also helps to keep them stored out of direct light, other wise they may become yellowed and brittle.

Grab your stamping supplies, go play and be inspired to create something Clearly unique.  No pun intended!

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