Think you know everything about our exclusive My Acrylix® stamps? Put your knowledge to the test by reading the list below! 🙂
1. We have French and Spanish stamp sets.
2. If you see a stamp image outlined in red, that means it coordinates with one of the shapes from our Cricut® collections. If it’s outlined in blue, that means it coordinates with one of our Thin Cuts dies.
3. We put A LOT of thought and effort into making the best stamps for our customers. See the entire process in this infographic:
4. After we design each paper packet, we create two coordinating stamp sets, one for scrapbooking and one for cardmaking, to be paired with that specific paper. These two stamp sets can be found in the idea book right behind the coordinating Workshops Your Way™ scrapbooking kits.
5. Our stamps are made right here at the Home Office, in a top-secret room.
6. It takes about one hour to make one sheet of stamps from start to finish.
7. New stamps work best when you “season” them. To do so, rub the stamp across a stamp pad, and then stamp onto scrap paper until the image is even.
8. Our stamps can be used with all sorts of inks, including dye, pigment, solvent, and alcohol inks.
9. Rather than attaching your stamps to your blocks, try using your blocks to pick up your stamps from a flat surface. This way, the stamp will hold its natural shape.
10. Our My Acrylix® blocks have a small white horizontal line on them to help you with stamp placement, which is especially helpful for keeping words and borders straight.
11. Some people cut apart their stamps in order to rearrange words in a sentiment when sticking them to their blocks.
12. Our stamps are flexible! Manipulate them so they fit inside shapes and banners, or just to get a different look!
13. If some of your ink doesn’t transfer when stamping, quickly breathe over the stamp to re-moisten the remaining ink and then stamp over the image again. The missing portion usually blends into the existing image if the ink isn’t too dry. This is called the Huffing or Stamp Over Technique.
14. Because our stamps and blocks are clear, you can easily stamp over the image again to get a richer, deeper image.
15. If you’re looking to remove that stubborn pigment ink, try our Spritz Cleaner and Stamp Scrubber. It makes it easy!
16. Our stamps don’t need to tan—they like being transparent, so keep them out of the sun!
17. Our stamps come in handy envelopes, which fit into our My Acrylix® organizer. You can also use our large organizer and tabs to store even more stamps. We also have a mini organizer for those mini stamp envelopes.
18. If your stamps ever start to lose their stickiness, all you need to do is rinse them with warm water and soap, and the stickiness will come right back. You can also use StazOn™ cleaner on the smooth side of the stamp.
19. Some stamps make great friends, like our good ol’ friend, Sticky Boy!
What things did you not know? Tell us in the comments! 🙂
Love, love this post – so many great reminders. Don’t forget you can use the back of the stamp as a solid image background for the front side of the stamp.
Thanks, Kelly! We’re so glad you liked it! 🙂
I love the Sticky Boy but not being a CTMH rep, I can’t get one. 🙁 They are the cutest especially his girlfriend.
They are adorable, huh? 🙂
I learned that it takes an hour to make one sheet of stamps.
Awesome post!! I never knew our My Acrylix stamps are made right at Home Office!! But now I know it makes sense since the quality is so excellent! Love you, Close to my Heart!
And we love you, Janet! 😀
I loved the info graphic on how the stamps are designed!
We’re so glad!
I learned that David wears many hats at the Close To My Heart office. Including Stamp Production Room Bouncer.
I learned that the blocks have a white line at the top for lining up words, letters, etc. never noticed it before. But I will now!!!
Thanks for the video demonstrations! I learned about the process of making the stamps. And that they take 1 hour to make. I hope we get a peek at this process during convention 2017 and our home office tour!
You are welcome!
I never knew about the white line on the acrylic blocks. What a great tip for my customers!
We’re so glad! They will love it!
I never knew the steps on how the stamps are made. Very cool!
I learned a lot about the process of designing and creating the stamps. I hope we get to peek into that top secret room next summer at convention!
Great information. Thanks for sharing!! Never thought about putting the stamp down and putting the block on top of it. Great idea.
I never thought about putting the stamp down and putting the block on top of it. Great tips and Great ideas. Thank you. Wish we could have a sticky boy stamp to purchase. How about a sticky boy special one month????
I had forgotten about the line on the blocks to line up the stamp with!
Great refresher! Had forgotten some of these!
So many things I didn’t know – probably the most important is that stamps should be seasoned. Hadn’t a clue. Most interesting thing I didn’t know – how a stamp is designed and made. Most useful – #9 – picking the stamp up from a flat surface. Thanks for all the hints and reminders!
You are welcome, Jane!
Knowing more of the details of making our stamps makes me appreciate them all the more. I season mine by rubbing them on my arm LOL…
Picking the stamp up from a flat surface to maintain it’s shape!!! Duh!!! So simple, but I didn’t know it!
Never thought about picking up the stamp with the block. Great idea and makes so much sense. Such good ideas will be using them!
You can also use both sides of the stamp.
I have rest amped but breathing on them to remoisten the ink is a new idea! Also love the stamp production info!
Didn’t know about the breathing on stamp to re moisten will have to try it and I’m a consultant that would really love a sticky boy stamp how can I get one please
Sticky Boy is only available at Close To My Heart events, and you have to find him. He loves to play hide and seek! 😉
This is a great post!! I’d enjoy seeing how the stamps are made. Thank you for sharing the design process with us.
Didn’t realise the work in creating a stamp and breathing on the stamp to remoisten it I wasn’t aware of. Thank you for sharing the 19 ideas to refresh us.
Videos show a twisting motion used when inking stamps. Has the “Tap Three Times” method been changed by Close To My Heart?
Nope! We still twist-twist-tap-tap-tap! 🙂
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I loved the information about the design and production of the Acrylic. I would love to look in. Your Top Secret Room one day. With special permission of course.
Whoops! Typo I meant Acrylix. It’s that predicted txt thingy.
I didn’t know the sun would effect the stamp….
Great tips, the new one for me is to pick up a stamp using the block, will definitely try that one out!
#3 there’s a lot more work put into a stamp than I thought. I didn’t know they were made in a large sheet and cut apart. I didn’t know you also made the carrier sheets
#6 I has no idea how long it takes to make a stamp.
Thanks for all the great info!
You’re welcome, Sheila!
I really liked reading this post.
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didn’t know about using block to pick up stamp or the line on the blocks. Thanks.
How to clean
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