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hi everyone



Joanna's absolutely right, Stampbord has a ultra smooth white clay coating which makes it absorb ink in a unique way. In a lot of ways it behaves like glossy cardstock (which is also clay coated) in that it takes dye inks very well and you can use Versamark as a resist on it.



It is a very solid support, almost like hardboard or dense MDF, but the crop-a-dile will punch through it. Mountboard is very thick cardboard, usually with a paper coating on one side to give it the colour. There's lots you can do with mountboard that you can't do with Stampbord, the main one being that you can't easily cut Stampbord, which is why it comes in packs of different sizes.



But it's the coating that makes it special and fun to work with. After colouring and stamping, you can lightly scratch the surface, just like scrapberboard, which gives you a whole new technique to play with.



hope that helps.

Glenda