Whatever Wednesday - Stamp-a-ma-jig

Do you own a Stamp-a-ma-jig?



This is what it looks like & I could not stamp without it – at least, not stamp very well. A Stamp-a-ma-jig helps to align your stamp in the correct place. Alphabet letters can be lined up precisely in line to form words or word stamps can be linked to form messages with this tool. No more misaligned messages or crooked letters! Multi-part images can be stamped with ease - like the petals, stem, center, and leaves on a flower! My stamp-a-ma-jig takes the guesswork out of exactly where my images will end up!

Here's a card I made today. I stamped the little flip flops from Life's a Breeze stamp set in Melon Mambo, Only Orange, and Taken with Teal. I'll show you how I used the stamp-a-ma-jig to stamp the words so they are lined up next to each other.

The package contains the stamp-a-ma-jig and a plastic imaging sheet onto which you stamp the same image that you will be stamping on your project. Place the corner of the plastic imaging sheet into either corner of the tool (personal preference based on whether you are right or left handed & what feels comfortable to you). Then stamp an image onto the imaging sheet, making sure you wedge the stamp into that same corner.


Lay the stamped imaging sheet onto your project so the image is exactly where you want your final stamped image.

Hold the plastic down onto the card while you place the "jig" against the corner of the imaging sheet, just like you had it set up before.

Carefully remove the imaging sheet while holding down the tool on the project. Ink up your stamp & press it again into that same corner. The reason that I wanted to use the stamp-a-ma-jig is that I wanted the words to be in different colors. I inked one word at a time with a Stampin' Write marker - the new Melon Mambo marker and Taken with Teal.

Do the same thing for the other word. The beauty of the jig is that both words will be aligned evenly in a row, with nothing crooked!

Just about any stamp can be used in conjunction with a stamp-a-ma-jig, however, many stamps don't need to be aligned precisely, so the tool is unnecessary. It is extremely useful for Stampin’ Up’s two-step stampin' sets. Those sets have an outline stamp and a solid inner stamp, such as a flower outline and then a solid flower that gets stamped inside the outlined image. Things can get lined up very easily using the "jig". You can look at the inside front cover of the catalog & notice there is a symbol for 2-step stampin' sets. That symbol shows up throughout the catty whenever a stamp set is a 2-step stampin' set! That's be a clue for us to pick up that "jig"!

Here's a tip for you: In many of my stamp sets, I also store a stamp-a-ma-jigged image on small squares of vellum. I stamp (in black Stazon ink) the images that often need very exact alignment onto vellum to keep permanently, so I avoid stamping that image over & over again on the imaging sheet. Each time you stamp an image onto the imaging sheet, you just clean it off with water or stamp cleaner.

Linda