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Hi All,
I have been searching this site about ways to mount my EFP (they are going to be here today!) I have seen some mount them with words that go together and others who mounted them alphabetically. Please let me know what you did and what worked best for you. If you don't do it alphabetically, how do you remember what words there are especially since you can only see the one sticker that is on the top. I guess even if they are alphabeticaly, you still can only see the one word that is on top. Any advice/suggestion you can give will be greatly appreciated! THANKS!
Steph
I mounted them by what I thought went together, like daughter and son etc..
I put both stickers on the front... the one on top is the stamp that's right on the back, and the one on the bottom is the sticker that's on the side... that way I can tell in a glance which stamps are on which block. Does that make sense? I'll try to attach a picture...
So Spring is mounted on the back, and fall on the side.
Boring alphabetical, that's me. I did put all 6 of the symbols together, so had to decide which 3 'short' words could be 'long.
I am lucky many days to remember my kids' names; I didn't want to try remembering which words I thought 'went together' ...
Can we say early onset boys and girls?
I mounted mine with two on a block. I mounted the longer word like you do a normal stamp adn then the smaller word I put on an end with the word on the other end. I did group mine by likeness.
I copied my downline's idea: Thanks Julie!
she put words that went together on the same wood block like:
love - hope, Christmas - joy, son - daughter
the smallest one on the end and the larger one on the front.
Very similar to the way we do double alphabets. But her cool trick was to type a 1/4 sheet of paper to make a "key" or index with numbers 1-26 with the coordinating words next to the number.
Don't forget to number your wood blocks match your key.
For example: #1 wood block is Christmas - Joy, #2 Son - Daughter.
I also laminated my "key" and glued it to the inside front lid for easy reading. No more looking at each wood block. Just look down my list and pick the number block I'm wanting to use at the moment.
I lay the woodblock on it's side where I can easily see the the number not the words. Angela
Ah..........the mounting of EFP. This was not fun and took me almost two hours !!! However, I came up with a neat little system that never leaves me searching for words. I did put words together that kind of went together as I'm sure many others have, daughter-son etc. Then I made a chart the size of the top of the box and wrote out what words were on each stamp. So in the first column I wrote something that looks like this:
daughter/
son
_________
Christmas/
wish
_________
Favorite/
time
_________
Together/
all
_________
Halloween/
party
And each column I did that so I just have to look at the chart and assuming I put it back in the same place I got it........then it should be there
One thing I don't like about mounting the EFP is I'm a bit particular and am a huge fan of my stamp-a-ma-jig. I always use my stamp-a-ma-jig to stamp with this set. I mounted it (I think) they way that it was written on the instruction sheet but now the small stamp is on the side that I would line up against my stamp-a-ma-jig. :shock: Kind of annoying but I'm a bit of a perfectionist when it comes to making sure my words are straight.
Have fun mounting !
Shelley
__________________ Life is 10% what happens to you, and 90% how you react to it ~
okay. i am boring. i mounted mine alphabetically. I did however forget to photocopy the labels before I mounted them so i would know what was there. my next goal is to create an alphabetical listing, and ideally print it on a large clear label (like the address label only larger).
After I mounted mine ( with like phrases together) my freind - also a demo - ordered an incentive stamp set (or sets I'm not sure) and mounted her words on those blocks so that she didn't have to double mount them and she has another cool divided box to keep them in. I'm not sure what she did with the rubber stamp pieces from the incentive set- maybe she double mounted those!
Karen
__________________ Having an open mind is good
as long as you don't let your brain fall out.
Sounds like I'm the only person that just mounted mine however they would fit so I could hurry up and play with them! I have no particular organization to mine, just short on side, long on back. To be honest, it hasn't annoyed me yet, I just have to dig a little in the box for what I'm looking for.
__________________ Melissa
"Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort" - Franklin D. Roosevelt
What a great idea, using the blocks from an incentive set! I ordered two of EFP as my quickstart rewards and thought about using the wood blocks from the second set. I also thought about cutting extra wood blocks. I haven't mounted them yet, though, because I would really prefer to have a single stamp on each block, however, as a demo I want to be able to show customers how their set would look and work if they ordered it.
__________________ "I like work. . . I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me: the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart." J.K.Jerome
I love the idea of mounting like phrases/words. I started matching them up on paper. Grand/baby, hope/dream, Christmas/joy, just/imagine, etc. Trying to get prepared for when I get the set in a couple weeks. I just can't get them all to match up quite right. Could someone please post a sample of there combinations? I would very much appreciate it. I'm having a brain fart!! LOL!!
How did you mount your Everyday Flexible Phrases?
