GoopyWhite Craft ink - why no Classic White?

[Soozie4Him]

I love how it looks, but it is SUCH a pain to work with. I had a Stamp Camp the other night and we used the white ink to stamp a sentiment on black cardstock, and to add Itty Bitty Background dots to a Rose Romance panel. I told my people to use a very light touch, both in the inking and the stamping, but all the stamps were goopy and filled with ink right away. I told them to heat set it, but in some cases, it still smeared. It was pretty frustrating. I had one gal cut off another black strip of CS and glue it over the smeared words.

I've tried other white pads (Colorbox Alabaster chalk ink, and Moonlight White from Brilliance) and haven't had good results - it's not white enough on dark CS. Everyone says SU's White Craft is the best, but what about the difficulty in using it?

Susan

[Sereikastamper]

Hey Susan, I pretty much just use a light hand and heat set too... I would not demo this but would save it for a more one on one thing...just because I too hate the clean up and mess !!! LOL

[Patty Stamps]

There is so much pigment in white in order to make it opaque that it has to be a craft pad. There is one other company that I can think of that makes a white dye ink pad but it can't really be called white because it just doesn't cover. You need that thick gooey ink to get a true white.

Messy but true.

[Kevjop]

I'm with you Susan. I would like a white classic pad!!! No matter how light I go the craft pad makes a mess!

[janz]

I love using the white craft pad, but it always smears for me unless I emboss it. Another option for you to get white on dark cardstock is to use Versamark, then emboss with the white embossing powder. Embossing looks soooooo cool! Especially to new stampers!

Dejah (janz)

[Sereikastamper]

Quote:

Originally Posted by janz

I love using the white craft pad, but it always smears for me unless I emboss it. Another option for you to get white on dark cardstock is to use Versamark, then emboss with the white embossing powder. Embossing looks soooooo cool! Especially to new stampers!

Dejah (janz)

I have to admit that I just bought the white detail for just this reason and I keep forgetting that I bought it!! :oops:

[KateStamps]

The problem is dye ink (like the classic pads) is absorbed by the paper, meaning white doesn't show up on dark colors because it gets "sucked in." Only pigment inks (craft pads) float on top of the paper, and thus appear on dark colors.
That said, my white pad is massively over-inked. I store it upside-down (so the pad is upright) to prevent it getting worse, and I've even taken a paper towel to it when there was a puddle of ink on the top. My understanding is that SU had this problem with a lot of the white pads made around a year ago, and the problem has been corrected, but letting the ink pad dry out a little will solve the problem.

HTH

Kate