Monograms were first used in Greece; coins were branded with letters so as to designate their origin, and the original Greek word means ‘intertwined letters. Eventually monograms were also used by artists and craftsmen to identify their work, and over time, monarchies across Europe came to use the use monograms as a way to identify their families, leading them to be symbols of status and luxury. 

Monogramming creates identity and takes an everyday ordinary item and makes it symbolic.

Today, monograms adorn everything from fine linens to water bottles and glass ware. While the traditional, created with the three initials is most widely used, the sky is the limit as Rubber Stamp Champ strives to offer whatever speaks to the customer. Almost anything is possible, ranging from different fonts, formats, or the full name; it is also possible, and often preferable to choose a graphic, or a symbol, and with 120 designs to choose from, and a wide variety of mount and stamp types, on which we offer monogram designs, you can customize, proof and order your monogram stamp for use on paper or with fast dry ink for making your impression on a wide variety of surfaces such as glass, fabric, wood, leather and more.

When looking to add an official appearance to your documents, our monogram stamps and embossed seals are a great way to create a classy look.We offer a wide selection of monogram stamps and seals to choose from. All of the options we offer for stamps and embossers feature the best in quality design and durable construction for a long-lasting addition to your home or office. With options available in a wide variety of fonts and designs, you can easily create a custom emblem to fit your needs.

First, choose the stamp model that works best for your application’s purposes and then choose your designs! We have options perfect for keeping track of library books, options ideal for adding a special touch to invitations, holiday-themed options, Made By designs for homemade gifts, address stamps and more. Looking for something with an elevated style and elegance?

Check out our selection of embosser options. All of these monogram seals are available in your choice of fonts for a truly personalized option. They allow for you to directly apply your seal to paperwork, letters, envelopes, invitations and more for a classy way to put your stamp of approval. Whether looking for monogram seals in your choice of silver or gold foil, an easy to use self-inking stamp featuring your company initials, or a hand stamp with your personal holiday message, our inventory has something for every need and purpose!

Whether you’ve looked at it that way or not, you have a special identity, and we can help make your identity special with a full selection of monogram stamps, monogram address stamps, and embossers.

Most of the time people use rubber stamps to stamp on paper, to officiate documents, endorse a check, notarize important information, mark invoices that have been paid and so on. Customized rubber stamps can carry almost any artwork, your logo, text messages of one line or many more, and are irreplaceable for many stamping needs around the home and office.

So on paper, rubber stamp products are very effective and versatile and we produce more of them online every day than any other stamp company in America, including choices at discounts from all the major stamp manufacturers, and literally thousands of ways to make stamps work for you from self inking and pre inked models to wood mounted hand stamps, round, square, rectangular and in sizes from tiny to huge, as well as the inks and pads to go with them.

But that’s only part of the story, because people like rubber stamping so much they have found countless ways to make use of them on surfaces other than paper, and it may surprise you to know we produce products using fast dry permanent ink, that many customers use to stamp on an enormous variety of surfaces including glass, plastic, metal, leather and more! To this purpose we have a number of excellent products to offer.

We also offer super convenient multi-surface, quick dry permanent ink stampers and the ink refills to go with them that carry our own brand name ChampFast®, which are the choice of many customers due to how easy they are to use and refill!

So maybe you are a photographer who wants to stamp on a glossy surface, or you have a brand you’d like to enhance with a custom logo stamp impression on leather, the possibilities are almost endless and can be explored easily on our website when you access our surface selector tool. It’s a perfect way to choose a surface and get information on which of our products would work best in your application.

So like they used to ask in the grocery store checkout lane, “Paper or plastic?”…and our answer is take your pick, we have stamps that work great on both!

The Fourth Of July, Memorial Day and Veterans Day are all very special holidays because they offer a chance for us to regain some national pride. Of course the Forth is really more about the signing of the Declaration of Independence than it is about fireworks, just like Christmas is more about the birth of Jesus than it is about bringing trees into our homes and decorating them.

If you do choose to celebrate patriotic or religious events we have a large selection of stamps for you to shop from with many nice messages you can use to make a great impression thousands of times!

Stamps are an excellent way to save time and energy while still communicating important messages or information. When it comes to showing the values that matter most to you, our religious and patriotic rubber stamps are a solid choice. Stamp mail, note cards, and more with a patriotic or religious message!

These patriotic and religious rubber stamps allow you to share the important values you hold near with others in a noticeable and lively manner. We offer a large inventory of religious and patriotic rubber stamps to view when looking to express yourself with stamps. Best of all, our collection of stamps in this style features options from the leading names in the business such as Ideal, Xstamper and more.

These brands are known for their continued commitment to quality design and durable, long-lasting construction. Make a selection from your choice of self-inking, hand stamps and more. We even have a pocket-sized version perfect for spreading your message on the go! The hand stamp is made of durable wood with a curved handle for a sturdy grip. The pre-inked and self-inking models are made of durable plastic with the inking mechanism conveniently protected by the body of the stamp. We offer these patriotic and religious rubber stamps in your choice of 11 ink colors to give you the variety you need to find the right choice. You can order a wide range of popular messages such as In God We Trust, God Bless America, Proud to Be an American, God Bless Our Troops and more.

Francis Scott Key had a question in the song he wrote after the British Fleet shelled Fort McHenry with all they had, but by the dawn’s early light it became obvious that our flag had not gone down, giving him the thought to pen this question, that we have to ask ourselves today..“Oh say does that star spangled banner yet wave, over the land of the free and the home of the brave?”

The answer, of course, lies in the hands of all the citizens of this country, and it is simply that it will continue to wave as long as we fight to be free. And if you support freedom, it might make you feel good to order one of our religious or patriotic rubber stamps, it will allow you to express yourself clearly, and thousands of times, before needing re inking, after which you will be able to stamp the message of your choice thousands of times more!

In today’s world people are often surprised to find that at Rubber Stamp Champ we deliver very consistently on our promise. So many 5-Star reviews we receive express amazement that the stamp ordered was exactly what the person expected, that our customer service was very helpful and that they received their order fast, and often much sooner than they expected.

With the current need for restrictive endorsement stamps skyrocketing due to new government regulations, we identified that need immediately and to serve all those searching for the products, added five restrictive endorsement stamp choices to our website, making it easy for all those searching for these unique products to find and get exactly what they need from us.

Currently no other stamp maker is offering these important and very special products, and we are happy, once again, to not only meet customer expectations, but to exceed them.

A restrictive endorsement limits the use of a financial instrument. The result of a restrictive endorsement is that a financial instrument is no longer a negotiable instrument that can be passed from the stated payee to a third party. An example of a restrictive endorsement is the “For Deposit Only” stamp used by most companies on the back of a received check. This stamp effectively limits further action on the check by the stated payee to only being able to deposit it.

Currently, other forms of restrictive endorsement messages have come in to use, and if you are looking for one of these specific types of stamps we have several for you to choose from. Most notably, we offer rubber stamps for restrictive endorsements of U.S. Bearer Securities, Title 31, Part §328.5 and §328.6. We offer five versions of this endorsement stamp.

Restrictive Endorsement Stamps have been a part of financial transactions for a long time, and the example everyone is familiar with is the simple For Deposit Only message stamped on the back of a check, that restricts the check’s use to it’s deposit into that person’s bank account. This stamp effectively limits further action on the check by the stated payee to only being able to deposit it. In banking, a restrictive endorsement is the type of endorsement whereby the financial instrument or a check is limited to use by the payee (receiver). The restrictions or constraints highlighted on the check create the limitation placed on a restrictive endorsement.

An example restriction would be “pay to the order of the bank” or “For Deposit Only.” Such can be followed by the business name or the payee’s account number. In the cases of companies, such negotiable (check) instruments are endorsed by stamping at the back. Indicating “For Deposit Only” and stamping the check implies that the payee can only deposit the cash in their bank account, but not cash it out nor use the check for any other action.

Restrictive endorsements are commonly used to settle debt since they protect the debtor from future disputes with the creditors. This is because the outlined conditions tie the creditor upon cashing out the check, which means they have accepted the terms and amount of debt settlement. The restrictions also can be used to save the debtor during debt settlement disputes. Companies commonly use restrictive endorsements to improve the internal control of their assets.

A customer may send a supplier a check payment, on which is written the words “in full payment of account” or similar terms. This is not precisely a restrictive endorsement, since it is not restricting the further negotiability of the check. However, it may have a substantial impact on the ability of the supplier to obtain payment on any remaining unpaid balance on the customer’s account, since depositing the check may be considered acceptance of the terms added to the check. The decision process when you receive such a check is:

1. Discuss the matter with legal counsel to see how it is impacted by applicable laws.
2. If you were about to write off the account balance (thereby assigning zero value to the unpaid amount), then it probably makes sense to deposit the check and write off the remaining balance.
3. If you intend to pursue full payment, then return the check to the customer. Do not deposit it.

If you use a bank lock box to deposit all incoming checks, then impose a procedure where the bank staff does not deposit any checks containing restrictive endorsements, and instead forwards them to the company for review.

At Rubber Stamp Champ, we have over 20 years of experience in creating custom stamps. We are your source for all your stamping needs! Have a question or need assistance ordering? Call our friendly customer service people weekdays at 800-469-7826 and we will help ensure you get the right stamp for your needs!

For many, Halloween is the cat’s meow, and they always have that carved out as a special holiday.

In the old days we went out on our own dressed as Dracula, Superman, donkeys, angels and King Kong or Godzilla, carrying bags with handles and hoping for anything made of chocolate and no apples, please. We screamed “Trick or Treat” at every door, but never really intended to play tricks nor did we have any up our sleeves. In today’s world, which in and of itself is often scary, the kids are accompanied by adults and dressed as Ninja Turtles or other more contemporary heroes.

The complete list of national holidays is absurdly long and contains many that most never heard of, and of course if you decided to celebrate them all, celebrating would be pretty much all you’d ever do.

Here are just a fraction of those from January alone: National Polar Bear Plunge Day, National Hangover Day, National Science Fiction Day, National Festival of Sleep Day, National Trivia Day, National Spaghetti Day, National Bird Day, National Whipped Cream Day and National Cuddle Up Day…and it kind of makes sense that if you enjoy a day of spaghetti, followed closely by one of whipped cream, cuddling up thereafter would be a perfect thing to do.

We offer plenty of festive stock rubber stamp choices to honor the more prominent holidays, and can help you out with things like gift giving with special Santa signature stamps, and other nice choices for Easter, Memorial Day and so on.

However if things like National Ugly Sweater Day, National Espresso Day, National Princess Day, National Vodka Day, World Kissing Day or National UFO Day appeal to you, you can also hop on our site and upload art or text or both to stamps of your own creation, for holidays not represented in our stock message stamp selection.

And whether you’d like a large format wood mounted hand stamp for that purpose, a self inking stamp from one of the major manufacturers of those, a pre inked stamp or a special stamp loaded with quick dry permanent ink for stamping your seasonal message on a wide variety of surfaces, we’ll make one for you, or ten or twenty or more, we’ll make them perfect and we’ll get them to you fast.

And since today, September 26th is officially National Rubber Stamp Day, we hope you’ll join us for it and for a custom rubber stamp we know you’ll love!

Pink has become a very popular color and we’ve even seen it on the shoes of folks who play in the NFL.

Of course pink has been deeply embedded in the culture in so many ways it’s probably impossible to list them all, as even right off the top you realize our smallest finger is called a pinky, and there was a Pinky Tuscadero in a TV show a few decades back called Happy Days.

Speaking of happy days, people who are having a good one are often said to be in the pink, and a group called simply The Band, produced an album in a pink house entitled Music From Big Pink.

All in all, our main concern is that you might want pink rubber stamps, so we’ve provided a huge selection for you to shop and choose from, but before we flesh that out a bit more, here are a couple other pink things you may find interesting, starting with some lyrics from Bruce Spingsteen.

“They say Eve tempted Adam with an apple
But man I ain’t going for that
I know it was her pink Cadillac
Crushed velvet seats
Riding in the back
Oozing down the street
Waving to the girls
Feeling out of sight
Spending all my money
On a Saturday night
Honey I just wonder what it feels like in the back
Of your pink Cadillac
Pink Cadillac.”

Bruce was not short on boldness as he even sought to re-write one of the core issues from the bible. We do not know, however, if he was bold enough to date a rep from the Mary Kay Company who strive for success selling cosmetics and can wind up driving, you guessed it, a pink Cadillac.

Speaking of success, and still on a musical note, everyone knows the name and face but not many realize the astonishing list of hits and accomplishments put out by the woman known simply as Pink.

To date she has released nine studio albums, one live album, five video albums, six compilation albums, 57 singles, six promotional singles, and 51 music videos. Throughout her career, Pink has sold 60 million albums, 75 million singles and 2.4 million DVDs worldwide. She has sold 18 million albums and 13.5 million digital singles. She is also UK’s second best-selling female artist of the 21st century.

In various spiritual practices, pink is believed to represent love, compassion, and inner peace. It is believed to have a soothing effect on the mind and can help individuals connect with their emotions and inner selves. Pink is also said to have a healing energy, promoting harmony and balance in one’s life.

The pink lotus flower is perhaps one of the most celebrated flowers that there is. It is considered sacred, and it is associated within the highest realms of Buddhism, with the Buddha himself, many kings, and the highest deity often depicted with this plant.

Pink diamonds are extremely rare and coveted A mine in Australia has been the source of 90% of the colored gemstones. Polished pink specimens of the highest grade can sell for tens of millions of dollars!

But if you wish to celebrate pink at a fraction of that cost, we come full circle to pink rubber stamps, which can help you in your pursuit of pink in a nice variety on our website at Rubber Stamp Champ.

One example is this custom self-inking stamp featuring a clear base which allows for precise alignment over the printing surface, while its durable frame is designed to make stamping smoother. It will last for about 5,000 thousand impressions and can easily be re-inked with water-based ink…and as you will note in the color chart, pink ink can make your pink custom rubber stamp statement complete.

So if we now have you thinking pink, just visit us and design a pink rubber stamp for yourself, and have fun with it, 5000 times or more, all you have to do is click now on our pink link!

In racing there is Formula One..and in custom rubber stamp making there is one formula that wins!

We get the checkered flag ahead of all the others in the pack due to our incredibly fast production and shipping, and our own brand of fast dry rubber stamps that allow you to stamp on a wide variety of non porous surfaces.

So there’s really a double meaning to our fast dry stamps, because not only do they produce an image in fast dry ink, we get your order to you fast as well. And speaking of double meanings, ChampFast® makes a permanent impression on almost any surface, while we also make a permanent impression on you with a great product delivered quickly.

One of the elements we offer to help you with any permanent quick dry ink stamping project is what we call our Surface Selector Tool. This ingenious little device combines potential stamping surfaces, like glass, metal, wood and plastic with the type of stamps and ink you would find best suited to stamping on those particular surfaces. The cool thing about it is, all you have to do is click on the surface of your choice and the correct stamp and ink products will be presented.

And speaking of making a good impression on people, here’s an example of how it works. Let’s say you are a nightclub owner and you need to stamp the hands of people to show they have paid a cover charge or presented a valid ticket. Once the hand is stamped the customer can enter, exit and renter just by showing the stamp. So backtracking now, let’s say this is what you wanted to do and so you saw our Surface Selector Tool on the home page of our site.

You advanced the arrow to find the surface you were looking for, which, in the example just cited would be skin. So you click on the skin panel and are presented with several excellent choices, including one that would allow you to use UV lighting to scan hands for an impression.

Similarly you might have a project where you are stamping on wood, glass metal or a number of other surfaces, and you would then be presented with appropriate choices, which in some cases would include our own brand of permanent ink stamp, ChampFast®.

Certainly, if you need custom rubber stamps, and you need them fast, like if your event is rapidly approaching and you need UV supplies, or if you need them to dry fast and make a permanent impression on almost any surface, we are here with a website that makes finding what you need quick and easy, and then also, with our super efficient production and shipping methods, getting what you need very quickly as well.

We’re the Champ, and we’re fast, any way you look at it!

One of the most frequently asked questions we get at Rubber Stamp Champ is can I put my logo on a rubber stamp? It may surprise you to know that we have over 200 ways to answer that question and they all start with “Yes, we can!”

Before enumerating and expanding on some of those answers, let’s do the logo itself, as an entity, some justice. The origins of the logo can be dated back to the Ancient Egyptians. They originally used hieroglyphics to brand and identify their possessions, until in medieval times when graphic imagery such as coats of arms were used to distinguish between the different nobility titles.

The good old Ancient Egyptians are also given credit for starting the practice of putting logos on animals, as they initiated the practice of branding livestock with fire-heated marks to identify ownership, a practice carried on among the ancient Romans, where the symbols used for brands were sometimes chosen as part of a magic spell aimed at protecting animals from harm. Whether that was effective or not we do not know.

We do, however, know for certain that in today’s world there are practically as many logos as there are companies, and while some have been around for decades and even centuries, new ones spring up virtually every day as almost no one starts a new venture without giving it a logo that will identify it for potential customers in the marketplace, because where thousands and even millions of others exist, a distinguishing factor is required.

Having said all this, your interest here is, of course, wanting not to know if you can put your logo on a cave wall, a shield, or a cow, but instead on a rubber stamp, and yes we have over 200 answers to that question because our logo stamps come in all shapes and sizes, as self inking stamps, pre inked stamps, wood mounted hand stamps, and permanent ink stamps for placing your logo with a rubber stamp impression on a wide variety of non porous surfaces like leather, glass, plastic and metal.

In this regard we politely suggest you take a look at our Hall of Fame, hot linked here for your convenience!

Here you will find a plethora of rubber craft and art stamping ideas as executed by our erstwhile customers and submitted for your consideration as you delve deeper into your rubber stamping ideas and custom stamp resource files. And speaking of livestock, as we did a moment ago, here is one referring to such, that actually is a logo having nothing at all to do with animals..except perhaps party animals!

And another, if you take a page from perhaps the G.O.A.T. in the pugilistic world, Muhammad Ali who sought to “Float like a butterfly and sting like a bee!”

For years, we have dedicated ourselves to providing the highest quality custom made rubber stamps so that you can always get the perfect tool to imprint your logo quickly and effortlessly. Our collection of options has grown to include dozens of types of stamps, giving you the freedom to choose the perfect model for your needs. Browse through our extensive lineup of different models and find a stamp that will help make your life easier by giving you a way to disseminate your logo in a snappy and effective manner.

So spread the word, and your symbol, and stamp your way to recognition, fame, fortune and all sorts of other good things with a logo stamp that we’ll create at no extra charge when you effortlessly upload your artwork onto our online system.

Go logo, not loco, go Rubber Stamp Champ!

At Rubber Stamp Champ we offer a wide variety of pink rubber stamps for you to choose from, to help support breast cancer awareness, and we also offer this history and background on the subject, in part from the National Breast Cancer Research Foundation.

Breast Cancer Awareness Month, held in October every year, aims to promote screening and prevention of the disease, which affects one in eight women in the United States every year and 2.3 million women worldwide. Known best for its pink theme color, the month features a number of campaigns and programs — conducted by groups ranging from breast cancer advocacy organizations to local community organizations to major retailers — aimed at: supporting people diagnosed with breast cancer, including metastatic breast cancer educating people about breast cancer risk factors stressing the importance of regular screening, starting at age 40 or an age that’s appropriate for your personal breast cancer risk fundraising for breast cancer research.

Awareness was elevated In 1989, when Mrs Lauder of the Estee Lauder Companies was diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer and chose to channel her experience into action. A model of resolve, she took it upon herself in 1989 to help establish a state-of the-art breast and diagnostic center at New York’s Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, where she was a board member.  The facility, known today as the Evelyn H. Lauder Breast Center, set a new global standard for cancer care offering the most up-to-date prevention, diagnosis and treatment services under one roof.

In that same year, Mrs. Lauder created the signature pink ribbon with Alexandra Penney, then editor of SELF and launched the Breast Cancer Awareness campaign within The Estée Lauder Companies. The program distributed the ribbons, along with self-exam instruction cards, at Estée Lauder counters across the United States and around the world, helping to raise awareness about the importance of breast health and effectively placing breast cancer at the public forefront.

Since then, Evelyn Lauder’s life’s mission has become ours: to rid the world of breast cancer. Today, The Breast Cancer Research Foundation stands as a testament to her fierce dedication, keen intuition and extraordinary vision.

Here then is just one example of how we help you think pink, year ’round, with this excellent self-inking signature stamp! Don’t write it, stamp it! When you’re faced with large volumes of documents that require your signature you can save the time with this convenient and easy to use self-inking Trodat stamp! This stamp features a pink body in support of Breast Cancer Awareness. The impression size of this stamp is 7/8″ x 2-3/8″ and it is available in 11 stunning ink colors…including pink!

Raise awareness and your ability to manage documents when you visit Rubber Stamp Champ now!

They say that home is where the heart is, and that a house is not a home, and maybe Dorothy said it best when she clicked the heels of her ruby slippers three times and said “There’s no place like home”, her and Toto’s ticket out of Oz!

Home for you might be a farm in Kansas, or in a high rise overlooking the strip in Las Vegas, or a small inner city bungalow built in the 30s.

For you maybe home is a multi million dollar mansion with an ocean view, or a cottage somewhere on a pristine lake in the north woods, it could be a houseboat, a geodesic dome, a log cabin or a luxury apartment, but wherever it is, it most likely has an address, and if you are happy about your address and your home, and proud of it, you will want design and buy a custom address stamp.

Research tells us that the 10 most famous addresses in the world are as follows:

1. 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington DC– Known as the White House.
2. 11 Wall Street New York, NY– This is home of the New York Stock Exchange. 
3. 350 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10118– This is where the Empire State Building stands.
4. 221 B Baker St, London, England– This is the address to the Sherlock Homes Museum
5. Tour Eiffel Champ de Mars, Paris– Where the Eiffel Tower stands.
6. 4059 Mt Lee Dr. Hollywood, CA 90068– This is the exact address where the Hollywood sign stands.
7. Buckingham Palace, London, England– Where the royal family lives.
8. Statue of Liberty, Liberty Island New York, NY 10004
9. Manager Square, Bethlehem, West Bank–Where the baby Jesus was born and laid in the manger.
10. 2 Macquarie Street, Sydney– This is the most popular place in Australia, the Opera House.

The history of addresses is pretty simple. Before house numbers, businesses used illustrated signs to show people where they were, for example, a dragon for an apothecary. However, when sending post people had to rely on describing the address as best they could. Over time, the need for house numbers became increasingly clear. In London, one of the first recorded instances of a street being numbered is Prescot Street in Goodman’s Fields in 1708. By the end of the century, the numbering of houses had become well established.

In any event, the mail must go out, and as the post office claims, “Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.”

And in one more reference, because there needs to be one more, signer Joe Cocker said it this way:

Give me a ticket for an aeroplane
I ain’t got time to take no fast train
Oh, the lonely days are gone
I’m coming home
My baby, she wrote me a letter

I don’t care how much I’ve got to spend
I’m gonna find my way back home again
Oh the lonely days are gone
I’m coming home
My baby, she wrote me a letter

She wrote me a letter
Said she couldn’t live without me no more
Listen to me, mister, can’t you see I’ve gotta
See my baby once more?

Wherever you live, we hope your baby wrote you a letter, and we hope also that she stamped it quite clearly with your correct address, and that it got to you in time! If you don’t have an address stamp yet, we suggest it’s an issue you address soon by visiting us at Rubber Stamp Champ!