Repurposing Wood Mounted Rubber Stamps

Creative Friday Greetings to you!

Wondering what to do with old wood mounts from rubber stamps that you've converted into unmounted rubber stamps? This is a fun little project, creating an accordion using old wooden stamp blocks.

To remove the rubber stamp from the wooden block, just place it in the microwave for 10, 20 or 30 seconds, depending upon your microwave. This softens the adhesive and the rubber stamp will just peel right off the block. Then the wooden blocks are ready for sanding, painting and decorating.

I'll let the pictures do the talking!

I used the Aspen Unmounted Rubber Stamps to decorate the panels before attaching.

A black cardstock hinge is used to connect the painted wooden blocks.

Of course the other side can look completely different!

As always, thank you for stopping by Club Scrap Creates!

Wishing you a creative weekend!

Kay at Club Scrap

**********THIS GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED**********

It's time for another giveaway! Today's "blast from the past" is the June 2005 Varsity Club Scrap kit. One of the most popular requests for special edition kits is a "sports" theme, and this is a classic. This kit includes 8-1/2 x 11" and 12x12" textured printed and plain papers, two wood-mounted rubber stamps, ribbons, medal stickers, zipper pulls, and ink pad and more!

To qualify for the random drawing, leave a comment on today's blog post listing your favorite sport. A winner will be chosen and announced on the December 7 blog post by 10am Central. Good luck to you!

The Day 5 Giveaway random drawing winner was comment #60, ScrapnBarbie. Congratulations! Watch your next kit shipment for your prize!

Re-purposed Frame

Happy Friday, Bloggers!

While doing some cleaning a while back (yes, that occasionally happens in my house), I came across an old 5x7 black frame with nothing inside. I placed it on my "projects that need to happen sometime" shelf in my basement. Then sure enough, I ended up filling it with inchies.

I took the frame apart and filled up the 5x7 space with rubber stamped, inked and embellished 1x1" inches. Then I put the frame back together.

I found that many of my past doodads from the Club Scrap embellishment cups worked well for embellishing.

To display, putting this frame on a little easel or hanging it on the wall would have worked just fine, but then I got the idea to make a stand out of a wooded candle holder from my local craft store. It just needed a little black paint before attaching the frame with bookbinding glue.

Although there was some assembly required, this was pretty easy and fun to make!

Creating inchies is such a fun "little" craft, and it's exciting to see what creative people do with those tiny works of art. Check out this Pinterest link if you care to do more of that.

Have a wonderful holiday weekend, and thanks for stopping by Club Scrap Creates!

Kay at Club Scrap