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Are there any little tips to reinking a stamp pad? or just go in and wing it? how many "drops" are you supposed to put?
(if it even comes out in drops, I don't know)
Make sure you shake your reinkers well - the color settles to the bottom.
I go back and forth across the pad with the reinker and then work it in by swiping an old credit card back and forth.
Here's the way I was taught and what I do. I was taught this by an upline who's very smart and savvy! Go back and forth, up and down. A good reinking uses about 1/4 of a bottle of reinker. This shocked me, but my pads are great since I've been doing this.
HTH,
__________________ Shelly
Central Florida
Stamper, Scrapper, Knitter, Homeschooler, Mom and Wife... not necessarily in that order!!
I use the thin plastic fake credit cards that come in the mail with credit card offers to work the ink into the pad. This is probably the only place I could admit that I save them for that purpose without being called crazy!!
Make sure you shake your reinkers well - the color settles to the bottom.
I go back and forth across the pad with the reinker and then work it in by swiping an old credit card back and forth.
Had NO idea I was supposed to shake them. Thanks!
__________________ Jeanne K.
When will Red Riding Hood receive her first Kiwi Kiss? And who ate Chocolate Chip?!??? Find out on the next exciting episode of.... As the Stamp Caddy Turns(my gallery)
Thanks for all the helpful hints on reinking....I have always been concerned I would over-ink the pad, so I would lightly squirt on ink in the "plaid fashion" described above. I will now be more generous with the ink and I will also smooth the ink in with those flimsy fake credit cards that I have been saving -- I knew they would come in handy for something! :lol:
Susy
Make sure you shake your reinkers well - the color settles to the bottom.
I go back and forth across the pad with the reinker and then work it in by swiping an old credit card back and forth.
Had NO idea I was supposed to shake them. Thanks!
Me either! I guess I've been really stingy with my reinker too, but I haven't noticed a difference, so I guess I will just keep being stingy and reinking more frequently.
(I'm a little more sneaky with my s)
__________________ ~ Kelly, who seemed to stamp a lot more before she *had* to!
After 11 years as a demo, guess I'm not so"new" anymore!
any tips on re-inking a stamp pad?
