How to Use Your Stamp-a-ma-jig

The Stamp-a-ma-jig is a wonderful tool to help you with perfectly aligned stamped images.  The are several uses for the stamp-a-ma-jig including perfect placement on a project and perfect placement for two step stamping.  This tutorial shows you how to use the Stamp-a-ma-jig to two step stamp a peony from Stampin' Up!'s Pretty Peony (Item 111119, $36.95). 

Step 1: Lay your Stamp-a-ma-jig (SAMJ) down and slide an imaging sheet into the corner of the SAMJ.
Step 2: Ink the detailed stamp with the darker color.  Hold down the SAMJ and stamp the imaging sheet, butting the stamp into the corner of the SAMJ.
Step 3: Carefully raise stamp.  You dark detail image is now on the imaging sheet.
Step 4: Stamp your bold image with a lighter color on your cardstock.  Take the stamped image sheet and place it over the lighter image.  Align it to where the detail stamp will lay.
Step 5: Carefully reposition the SAMJ to the corner of the imaging sheet.  Take care not to move the image sheet.
Step 6: Hold the SAMJ in place and carefully lift the imaging sheet from the cardstock.  Ink up the detail stamp with a darker color and butt it  against the corner of the SAMJ.  Firmly stamp onto the cardstock.
Step 7: Remove the stamp and now you have a perfectly stamped flower with details.
Step 8: Finish your project as desired.

Bonus tip: Have you run out of imaging sheets?  Use overhead projector transparencies!  The imaging sheet used in this tutorial is actually a one quarter sized sheet of an overhead projector transparency.

Comments

[Grace Lovell]

I am soooo new at all of this so please bear with me! What is the benefit of using stamp-a-ma-jig? Or rather when do you use it & why? I just can't see why it would be necessary.

I LOVE your blog BTW.

Grace

[Laura Hepko]

There were two extra pieces with the kit,a 90 degree angle and a 21/2 by 3 1/2 clear plastic piece. What are there purpose and suggestions for ues.