Contact Crafts Coupon Codes & Craft Stamp Deals

Paper crafting has a long tail of specialist suppliers, and the useful ones tend to be the ones that make something rather than simply resell everything. Contact Crafts sits in that group: its catalog is built around PEGZ, its own line of alphabet stamps, with a supporting range of powders, adhesives, binding machines and storage.

That focus makes the store easy to shop badly if you treat it as a general craft retailer, and easy to shop well once you understand how the stamp range is organized — because that organization is most of what determines whether you end up with the pieces you actually need.

What Contact Crafts Sells

PEGZ alphabet stamps are the core. They come in four sizes — Tiny at an eighth of an inch, Small at three-sixteenths, Medium spanning a quarter to three-eighths, and Large at half an inch — and across several typefaces, including American Typewriter, Papyrus, Futura Outline, Curvy Girl, Quattro, Hey Gorgeous, Orange Crush and Lovers Lane. Bundles run from 36 pieces up to 108 depending on whether numbers and symbols are included alongside the letters. PEGZ 2.0 is the connectable version of the same idea.

Beyond the stamps, the range covers Color Burst pigment powders and liquid watercolors sold in six-pack palettes and a 30-piece collection, Stick It adhesive sheets for die-cutting, Zutter binding and bow-making machines, planner and journal stamp sets, calendar and calendar-cube bundles, the Rylee Autumn collection, and magnetic storage systems for dies and stamps.

Why the Connectable Range Matters

The difference between PEGZ and PEGZ 2.0 sounds like a minor product variation and is in practice the main decision.

Stamping a word letter by letter means aligning each stamp by eye against the last one. Small errors accumulate: the line drifts, the spacing goes uneven, and the result reads as handmade in the way nobody intended. It is the single most common frustration with individual alphabet stamps, and it gets worse the longer the word.

The connectable design addresses that directly by locking the letters into a single unit, so the whole word is inked at once and pressed in one movement. The line stays straight because it is physically one piece. If your work involves words, names or phrases rather than single initials, this is worth the step up. If you only ever stamp a letter or two, the standard range is fine.

The matching organizers are sold separately and are easy to skip on a first order. They are also what stops a growing collection turning into a box of loose letters that takes longer to sort than to use.

Choosing a Stamp Size

Size follows the surface, and buying by preference rather than by application is where money gets wasted.

Tiny and Small are for tight spaces — planner boxes, journal margins, the date on a calendar page. They are precise and they are fiddly, and inking them evenly takes a lighter hand than the larger sizes. Medium is the general-purpose size and the one most people should own first: it works on card fronts, scrapbook pages and tags without dominating them. Large is a titling size. A full sentence in half-inch letters is a banner, not body text.

The bundle sizes interact with this. A 36-piece set is a single alphabet with no duplicates, which means a word containing the same letter twice cannot be stamped in one pass. The 84- and 108-piece bundles add numbers, symbols and duplicate letters, and it is the duplicates that quietly matter most in daily use.

How to Save at Contact Crafts

The clearest saving here is structural. The larger PEGZ bundles carry a materially lower per-piece cost than assembling the same alphabet from smaller sets, so if you expect to want a full alphabet in a given typeface, buying the complete bundle first is cheaper than adding to a partial set later. The same logic applies to Color Burst: the 30-piece collection undercuts buying five separate six-packs.

The second habit is to order storage with the stamps rather than after them. Magnetic storage is the item most often deferred and most often needed, and consolidating it into one order avoids paying shipping twice on what is otherwise a light package.

Contact Crafts states that most orders ship within one to two business days, which is quick for the category, though some lines are sold for contiguous US delivery only — worth checking per product rather than assuming. Check our Contact Crafts store page for deals as they become available, and browse our wider home and garden coverage for related craft suppliers.

Getting Good Results from Color Burst

Color Burst behaves differently from most craft colorants and the difference catches first-time users out.

It is a dry, highly concentrated pigment powder that activates on contact with water. A very small amount — genuinely a tap of the jar rather than a spoonful — colors a large area, so the instinct to use a normal quantity produces something far more saturated than intended. Start with less than seems reasonable and add.

Because the powder activates where the water is, the technique is closer to controlled bleeding than to painting: sprinkle onto damp paper and the color spreads and blends on its own. That makes it well suited to backgrounds and mixed-media work and poorly suited to precise detail. Heavier card stock handles the water better than thin paper, which buckles.

The liquid watercolor version is the same pigment family in a pre-mixed form, which trades some of that spontaneity for predictability. If you want repeatable results across several pieces, the liquid is the easier starting point.

Worth Knowing Before You Order

Two things are easy to miss. The first is that typeface and size are separate axes, so a Medium American Typewriter set and a Large American Typewriter set are different products — building a collection means deciding which typefaces you want in which sizes rather than simply buying more.

The second is that this is a supplier of consumables as well as tools. Adhesive sheets and pigment powders run out; stamps and binding machines do not. Splitting the order that way — tools once, consumables in quantity — is generally the more economical pattern, and it is worth thinking about before the first order rather than on the third.

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