My ah ha moment with clear mount stamps.

I am hoping the pictures here will convey a thousand words since I am really up too late and should go to bed. I just really wanted to share something I learned at Regionals that totally opened my eyes to the "coolness" of the clear mount stamp system. Yes, we all know I love wood mount but I might consider having a little affair with these clear mount stamps for just this purpose. Check out the pictures below and see what I have done that can not be done with wood.

See, three stamps on one block. I ink them and stamp once. (with wood, they'd all be on seperate blocks and I'd have to stamp three times)

Then, put the birds, uninked, rubber down in the positions I want them.

Then, I put the clear block on top of the birds and they stick to the block. I then ink up the rubber and stamp once and all the birds are in the right position in their cages.

Okay, maybe all of you have been doing this with your clear mounts all the time and this is old news but hey! it's new to me and now I might actually choose to buy clear mount more often...especially for two step sets.