Fiska Friday Link for 11/7/08

This is my first Fiskateer Fiska-Friday Link .
I am posting a tip on how to get good ink coverage on your new acrylic Fiskars, Cloud 9 and actually any acrylic stamps. I will try and post something for you each week.

Tip for Acrylic Stamps

Have you ever had trouble with ink beading up on new Fiskars or any acrylic stamps? I have had this happen when I have a new stamp set and use a stamp for the first time. When I go to ink the stamp the ink is like it is repeling it. It only stays on in dots resulting in a bad stamped image. I have found that if you do one of these options you will have a much improved image.

1. Take a good pencil eraser and rub it over your new stamps first before inking. Wipe off any excess eraser dust. Now ink your stamp up and stamp a practice one first. It should be a nice clean and fully inked image.

2. Another option is you can take a piece of brown paper bag and rub that over your new stamps. Then ink and stamp as usual. Again your image will be a nice solid inked image.

The reason this happens is because in production often times a film is left on the stamps. By removing that with one of these options the ink is able to grab and give a crisp and clean solid image.

I hope you find this useful. It has sure helped me with my stamps.
Check out the rest of my blog while you're here. I would love to have you leave a comment on any of my projects. Thanks for stopping by. See you next week.

Here are some other Fiska Link Friday posts
http://debbysdares.blogspot.com/2008/11/hershey-continues-and-rock-paper.html
http://fromichelle.blogspot.com/2008/11/its-fiska-link-friday.html