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Reply to "Best Way to Get a Sharp, Even Application of Color with a Stamp?"

I actually find I get the cleanest, sharpest imprints by applying the coloring to uninked ink pads (or folded paper towels, folded like a flat mat) and blotting the pad first (so there are no pools of coloring on top). I can get many, many sharp imprints w/o every having to wash the stamp in between, though I may have to re-ink it, usually after every or every other imprint.

 

Also, there's no need to thin the coloring. It will be more runny and more often than not cause the stamp to slip around on the surface of the icing. I use soft-gel (aka liqua-gel) coloring straight up, and simply squeeze it onto the pad, as noted above. But blot the pad before you ink the stamp, or you can get an excess of coloring on the stamp.

 

I have also found that painting or drawing the coloring onto the stamp not only takes more time, but usually yields less crisp results because it is too easy to get the coloring into the low spots on the stamps where it wasn't supposed to be,

 

Hope this helps. I love stamping and could talk about it forever!

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