 How are you today? Hi, we're in my kitchen So we're unmounting some wood-mounted stamps. These are Daniel Trenti stamp boutique stamps They don't come cling-mounted They only come on wood blocks and I've been thinking about a while for about Unmounting them. So I thought I'd shoot a quick video on how exactly to do that And I do have to say as I'm doing it. I think they stamp better and clearer Unmounted they do mounted the way they come from the factory So I took the whole stamp wood block and all and stuck it rubber side up in my microwave for 30 seconds Now you're gonna want to test your microwave to see How long it takes in your microwave to do this start with 10 seconds And if it doesn't pull up easily put it back in for 10 more until you figure out with your microwave What temperature works well, but they should pull up just like this The wood's gonna be hot so take all caution and I'm just throwing the blocks in the sink until they cool off If you do it right the foam will stay on the back and it is sticky from the adhesive They used to mount it on the wood block. So I'm not gonna put it on easy mount again I'm gonna just put it on an acrylic block here And then I have some black ink behind the camera And I'm gonna stamp it on a white piece of paper here and then I have Some empty DVD cases so I'm putting I can get four of our my people in here at a time and then I will put the White card I've been stamping on the outside. So I know what people are in here and then I'm storing them in a box Which I'll show you in a minute. I'll be right back after I'm done and mounting all these stamps Hey guys, so you saw me doing a quick tutorial on how to unmount your rubber stamps I do want to give you some cautions So make sure that you don't do it more than 10 seconds at a time and that you keep an eye on the microwave And you don't walk away. We do not want to set anything on fire. How would I know that it's possible? Get guess. Well, I'll give you one guess. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah So be careful and also when you're handling the wood you may want to pull it out with a rag and Handle it that way the wood can get very hot. So please don't burn yourself. All right that being said I did unmount all of my stamp boutique stamps and put them in these blank DVD cases Which I talk about in the Viva Las Vegas stamps video I will post links for where to get the DVD cases and the bin that I'm storing them in in my art room in the description below I Did fit quite a few of the stamps in each DVD case and you can fit some on both sides and squeeze it shut if you have big Stamps in here like big background stamps. I have found that it's Better to cut these little things off here. I don't know what these are for but you can just get some Wirecutters or some snippers and cut those off. That way it doesn't poke into the stamp in this in this case I didn't have to do that, but I have done it on a few of the bigger Background stamps like did I do it in here? No, I did it in one of the Viva Las Vegas ones and I don't remember which one, but anyway I do also think I'm glad I did this because I do think that the stamp boutique Daniel Turrenti stamps I think they were much easier to get a clear stamped image Unmounted than they were on the wood blocks. I don't know what's up with that. Maybe it was just the way I was using them I have no idea, but I think they worked really well. I am going to like with my other ones where I don't have Product packaging to go in the outer sleeve. I'm going to put a label on the spine in case they use them in a Video tutorial I can tell you guys which you know at least which manufacturer the stamp is from So I'm going to put stamp boutique Daniel Turrenti on the spine with my brother p-touch label maker And then just like with my other stamps they get put into one of these quarter bins from Target These are $4.99 and on the outside. I always label which brands manufacturers or Types of stamps are in the box It makes it a little easier if I'm working on a project and I know I wanted to use a Daniel Turrenti You know figure like his mermaid in a tag or something I know exactly which box to go in and then I don't have to dig around so anyway This is a much easier way to store a lot of stamps in a very small space And as you can see by how full this bin is not You can get a lot of these DVD cases in one bin and Consequently a lot of stamps now. I do have a few stamps. I'll probably never unmount Like these two that say happy mail this one doesn't even have it on the outside, but I know it says oh This one says love this sorry this one says happy mail These are just ones I use unhappy mail envelopes, and I'll probably always just leave them this way It's just a little easier, but you know, you never know. I'm change my mind a lot Who knows anyway give it some thought if you have a bunch of wood mountain stamps that you really love and But they take up a lot of space in your art room think about unmounting them or at least trying it on one of them I did at one point all of my wood mount stamps, and I shouldn't have done that because I ended up not wanting to keep some Of them so if you have a lot of stamps maybe you need to do a purge first and decide which ones you really want to keep or not and then Think about unmounting them, especially if you have limited space. All right, that's it for today Don't forget to go out and have a great day do something nice for yourself because you deserve it, and I'll see you later