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If you find that a corner or line of rubber continues to appear with your image, and you are not rocking the stamp, cut the excess rubber around the image. Use an exacto knife to cut away large margins of rubber, coming in close to the image. A good test of what rubber to cut away is to ink up the stamp, turn it over, and examine where on the rubber, other than your image, the ink is appearing.