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OK - I must be doind something wrong. How do you ink these stamps. If you pounce the ink pad on it you get lines, if you smear it you get smear marks and the brayer also left lines. So I'm thinking there is a trick to this. I don't mind it so much with the canvas B/G since I think that looks good kind of imperfect but the blue jeans one I need to be solid blue jean print.
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This is what I do to make mine work ( I did look at previous threads and didn't see my technique )...
I take an eraser and go over the whole image, it sort of roughs up the surface so that the ink sticks to it better. I also use a big sheet of fun foam under my scratch paper and that seems to help, especially with the big background stamps. I also make sure that I press in the center of the stamp since that is usually where the problem is.
This is what I do to make mine work ( I did look at previous threads and didn't see my technique )...
I take an eraser and go over the whole image, it sort of roughs up the surface so that the ink sticks to it better. I also use a big sheet of fun foam under my scratch paper and that seems to help, especially with the big background stamps. I also make sure that I press in the center of the stamp since that is usually where the problem is.
Hope this helps.
Great tips, Jenny!! I have problems with most of my BG stamps.
Katy
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To ink BG's first I pounce the inkpad all over the stamp a good few times
all over it. Then with a light touch I go back over it w/the inkpad kind of
swirling (make sense?) it to get rid of the lines from pouncing. Seems to
work for me. I do this with stamp on the table rubber side up. To then
stamp, leave the stamp that way, put project cs over it then lay a larger
piece of scratch paper over that & rub back& forth a couple times with
my fingertips to make contact everywhere. Voila! Works for me.
Couple things to try are ink up using your brayer - I find this gives me the best coverage. And then, when I go to stamp, I lay the stamp down, rubber/ink side up and place my cardstock on top and use a sheet of scratch paper over that to press down on it. Then I don't wind up with a middle section of the image missing!
but I don't lock the pad open... you have to be able to be pressing directly on the half with the ink pad in it... as you're pouncing you should be able to see the "trouble" spots and go back over them
Oh yeah, I forgot, but I had heard some people had better luck with
using their brayers to ink up the stamps. I just got mine the other day
& haven't tried that out yet.
I second the suggestion of inking the BG stamps with a brayer. That gives a nice even coating of ink. Removes all those lines you get from pad to stamp methos. Good luck!
And I only got the rubber roller for my brayer. HHHMMFFF! I guess the
the sponge one would clean up easier, but do you get good enough con-
tact with the inkpad? Just wondering...
I cover the bg with my markers - really heavily. I can't seem to get enough ink on the stamp from my pads, even if I re-ink them to death... Then, I "huff" a few times, put the cardstock on the stamp (the stamp is rubber-side-up on the table), cover this with scratch paper, and us my brayer with a lot of pressure (I usually stand up to push down hard with my brayer). Works for me!
IMO it is the darn SU pad that is at fault. They sag in the middle and are just so annoying. I finally sold all my new ones and bought blank SU pads (Comotion brand at Addicted to Rubber Stamps) and bought reinkers and do my own. I have no trouble getting the background pads inked with the old pads.
Trouble with Canvas and BlueJeans B/G Stamps
