In keeping
with the cleaning theme, this week we are going to talk about cleaning your ink
pads. Like stamps, they receive a lot of rough love from being used all of the
time. Colours get contaminated or they go dry and they sometimes just need a
little love. I never knew that you could properly clean your ink pads or how to
take care of them until I looked up about how to clean your stamps. This is a
really useful thing to learn about if you’re a crafter and especially if you’re
a crafter who sells your crafts and has to make lots of them.
Ok, so here
is some ink care tips and how to clean them.
Caring for Your Ink Pads
1. Always always always put a lid on
your ink pad. Even if you are stepping away for just a second you should put
the lid on just in case you get distracted or something spills on it.
2. You can clean your ink pad if colours
get contaminated by “tapping it off with a paper towel” or if it still doesn’t clean
use an “ammonia-free window cleaner” and spray the ink pad with it lightly and
then let it sit for a few seconds before wiping it away. You can also dampen
some paper towels and put them over the ink pad and press on them lightly to
get the colour out.
3. Re-ink your pads if they dry out.
This is up to you. It may be easier to just buy a new ink pad if it completely dries
out but if it’s a colour that you like, re-inking may be the way to go. We have
never tried it with our ink yet, so I’m not sure if it’s worthwhile thing to
do.
4. This is something that I found so
interesting to do and did it almost right away after reading about it. Store
your ink pads upside down to keep the ink on the surface; we’ll see if this
makes our stamps more inky.
5. I’ve never done an ink pad repair but
I read about them while researching for this post. So if you’re pad gets
unattached from the base which I read is a very common thing to have happen,
you should put a few drops of super glue on the spot where it has come loose
and let it completely dry before using the ink pad again.
I’ve learned
some pretty cool things about ink pads this week and I’m going to give ours a
clean and for sure store them upside down from now on. Off to clean the ink
pads. Happy Friday!
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