When you are going to buy rubber stamps, there are basically three different designs that you can run on. Part rubber stamp that sits on a finished block (wood, plastic etc) where you see the motif stamped on the block. Then there are mounted rubber stamps. There, the rubber stamp is glued to a surface which in turn sticks to an acrylic block. Worth mentioning here is that you cannot see the motif on the back through the acrylic block. Finally, there are (but not something we have in our range) unassembled rubber stamps. Then it is only the stamp itself and you have to do the work yourself to get it into use in order to stamp smoothly.