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| Cleaning your rubber stamps doesn't have to be | | | | cardstock. This will keep your supplies from getting |
| difficult. In this how-to, you'll learn techniques to clean | | | | more inked up than they need to be. One of the most |
| your rubber rubber craft stamps without costing a | | | | popular techniques to clean rubber stamps, and one of |
| fortune...or hurting the stamp! Just working with rubber | | | | the simplest, is to use baby wipes. Alcohol free baby |
| stamps for awhile, you can remember when you | | | | wipes work well because they are disposable and just |
| forgot to clean a rubber stamp, the one you just inked | | | | damp enough to clean off the pigment. Some |
| with a dark blue ink, and began inking it up on a nice | | | | stampers like to use a toothbrush to get the deep |
| yellow stamp pad...Ouch! It only takes a mistake to | | | | groove of the stamp die clean. Be careful if using a |
| completely ruin a lightly colored ink pad, and the only | | | | brush because you don't want to spray ink all over |
| way to prevent it is to clean your stamps completely. | | | | your clothes!Make sure the brush bristles are very soft |
| But...what ways are the best to make sure your | | | | since you don't want to scratch your rubber art stamp |
| stamps get clean?While it would be very nice to have | | | | while cleaning it.Whatever method of cleaning you |
| a definitive answer to this question, these days | | | | decide to use, make sure you don't use solvents to |
| pigments come in all types. Some enjoy acrylic paints | | | | clean your rubber stamps since they can ruin the |
| and others simply stick with old fashioned dye based | | | | adhesive. Don't put your rubber stamps under |
| craft pads. There is no one single solution for cleaning | | | | water...this will cause the labels, adhesive, and rubber to |
| all of your stamps since there are many different | | | | come apart eventually. If you decide to use a |
| types of colorants that you are using with each stamp. | | | | commercial window cleaner, make sure you don't use |
| The first step to cleaning any art stamp is to dab off | | | | one that contains ammonia as that can hurt the rubber. |