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Does anyone know if I can somehow salvage a very dirty versamark pad? How do you keep them clean? I use mine all the time at workshops and it is so stained now. Is there a way to make it look nice again -and keep it that way? Thanks.
Well my first one got so messed up, I got another. Then when I messed up that one, well, I took a wet paper towel and just wiped at the darn thing, and then re-inked it! It worked!!! I figured I had nothing to lose.
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Ditto for me. I use a damp paper towel and clean my pad off. Then reink. My pad is so old, but it's in such great condition. It gets dirty often, especially when I'm working with pastels.
Mine is all stained, but it doesn't have any effect on the stamped images, so I don't worry about it.
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thanks everyone I was also worried about this.I have a little staining on mine and was wondering how it would affect mine too.But you ladies answered my question.
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I'm glad someone asked this question. My versa mark pads get so dirty, especially at workshops and I didn't want to have to keep buying new ones. Although I've never had it affect my images, it just looks bad. The reinker that SU sells also will reink the embosssing cartridge for the wheels.
Hi, guys. We just had this conversation out on blender pens vs. aqua pens.
You can buy a huge bottle of glycerin at any drugstore for about two bucks. That's all versamark is.
Glycerin is that "magic" ingredient that turns any dye based ink into pigment ink. All it does is add stability to the water so it dries by evaporation rather than by absorption (which is why it takes longer to dry).
Clean your pad off with a wet paper towel, then spread some glycerin on. You're good to go. And it's cheaper than anything else on the market.
BTW, you can make your own cleaner. To 7 ounces of distilled water, add one dropper full of glycerin and one dropper full of dish soap. You can make a full gallon of cleaner for half the cost of SU's eight ounce refill. (Not that I'm trying to undermine SU - since I'm a demo - but I'd rather have more money to buy stamps than to pay for someone else to make my refills...)
What a great idea to make your own cleaner! But when you say "dropper" full -- how big a dropper? There are all kinds of sizes of droppers. Sorry, the former science teacher in me is coming out!
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What a great idea to make your own cleaner! But when you say "dropper" full -- how big a dropper? There are all kinds of sizes of droppers. Sorry, the former science teacher in me is coming out!
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can I clean my versamark pad?
