What a great tip! Thanks. I never would have even thought of adding the water! And the "scrumbling" onto texture paper with a dryer ink pad: brilliant!
Lol, I went out and bought a ton of those things from Tuesday Morning the day after I watched your haul. When I opened them, they wouldn't even put as much color out as yours did, BUT I used the Inkssentials Ink Refresher on both the dye and pigment ink versions and they are AMAZING! For a dollar each, plus the pennies it cost to spray them, I can't complain :-)
I'm new to stamping and had bought some ink pads that were dried up. I decided to search here on UA-cam to see what I could do to get them working again. Never thought about spraying them with water. Thanks for sharing! 😀
Clear embossing pads are the best for "reinking" because all you need is glycerin, a bit of water and, if you want, you can add just a drop of alcohol to kill off any stray bacteria. I get my glycerin at the big box drug stores when it's on sale. Good Luck!
I bought these also at Tuesdays after seeing your video and was going to return them due to dryness. Now I will try this instead. Thanks for the great idea
Ten Years later so how are these 99 cent pads doing today? No not seriously. Just ran across this link when searching another question about difference between ink pad types...Dye verses Pigment. A friend wants to know but I found myself actually more interested than I thought learning a few things I hadn't realized. I actually did not know pigment dies blend very well with a blending brush say for rainbow colored blank cards and ombre effects. Hahaha. Most of my pads are pigments due to I think outside the box and apply them to hot foiling dies and use the dies as embossing/debossing effects. So I get two uses out of my hot foil dies. Pigment inks stick to the tops of the metal die that sticks up better than dye ink. Also if you want super crisp strong outlines with those stamps you often color in I've found Pigment rarely smudges or runs. It's a win win. But a friend stopped by yesterday and I loaned her a hybrid pad from Scrapbook. She was having problems when using stamps on a lightly textured white card stock. The paper looked more like a watercolor paper but anyway after I loanded it I told her to keep it and was going to make an order at Scrapbook. BUT TO MY SHOCK almost all of their ink hybrid ink pads that is are out of stock? I mean poof. They had several bundles where you could get 3-4 packs of pads together that had the black in it but they too are out of stock. Then the full close to 300 dollar buy the works of every color also out of stock. So I was searching to see if this is just a momentary thing and supplies are lagging production or what. While doing that search up came a link for this video. So I watched it. And then I noticed it was 10 year old post. BUT HEY GIRL it's still relevant today. One reason I often favor pigment dies is they wash up or off my metal dies and embossing folders and stamps with good ole water maybe now and again a wee bit of soap helps. Meantime I'm off to see if Scrapbook has a contact email to ask where's their hybrid inks. Thanks for the tip I'll send it along to my friend who started making cards not long after I did. We share a lot of supplies and information back and forth.
You can also use a product made by Ranger called "Perfect Refresher"...it is a spray on resin that is made to re-wet stamp pads that are still inky, but dry. It works GREAT!!
Awesome :D, I bought a tub of stamping stuff from a thrift store and found some dried out ink pads in them. They still look good but I can't get any color out of them. But hopefully I can save myself a 20 minute drive to the closest craft store. Fingers crossed that it'll work
I bought some of the Exquisite pads from Tuesday Morning....the pigment based pads. They were also very dry. I think I'm going to try a little Perfect Refresher on them and see what happens. But they're still usable. Great for inking edges or using on the textured cardstock like you did b/c they're not too juicy. TFS, Heather
What a great tip! Thanks. I never would have even thought of adding the water! And the "scrumbling" onto texture paper with a dryer ink pad: brilliant!
Lol, I went out and bought a ton of those things from Tuesday Morning the day after I watched your haul. When I opened them, they wouldn't even put as much color out as yours did, BUT I used the Inkssentials Ink Refresher on both the dye and pigment ink versions and they are AMAZING! For a dollar each, plus the pennies it cost to spray them, I can't complain :-)
I'm new to stamping and had bought some ink pads that were dried up. I decided to search here on UA-cam to see what I could do to get them working again. Never thought about spraying them with water. Thanks for sharing! 😀
Clear embossing pads are the best for "reinking" because all you need is glycerin, a bit of water and, if you want, you can add just a drop of alcohol to kill off any stray bacteria. I get my glycerin at the big box drug stores when it's on sale. Good Luck!
How much glycerin to water?
I bought these also at Tuesdays after seeing your video and was going to return them due to dryness. Now I will try this instead. Thanks for the great idea
I'll try!
Thanks a lot for sharing!
Ten Years later so how are these 99 cent pads doing today? No not seriously. Just ran across this link when searching another question about difference between ink pad types...Dye verses Pigment. A friend wants to know but I found myself actually more interested than I thought learning a few things I hadn't realized. I actually did not know pigment dies blend very well with a blending brush say for rainbow colored blank cards and ombre effects. Hahaha. Most of my pads are pigments due to I think outside the box and apply them to hot foiling dies and use the dies as embossing/debossing effects. So I get two uses out of my hot foil dies. Pigment inks stick to the tops of the metal die that sticks up better than dye ink. Also if you want super crisp strong outlines with those stamps you often color in I've found Pigment rarely smudges or runs. It's a win win. But a friend stopped by yesterday and I loaned her a hybrid pad from Scrapbook. She was having problems when using stamps on a lightly textured white card stock. The paper looked more like a watercolor paper but anyway after I loanded it I told her to keep it and was going to make an order at Scrapbook. BUT TO MY SHOCK almost all of their ink hybrid ink pads that is are out of stock? I mean poof. They had several bundles where you could get 3-4 packs of pads together that had the black in it but they too are out of stock. Then the full close to 300 dollar buy the works of every color also out of stock. So I was searching to see if this is just a momentary thing and supplies are lagging production or what. While doing that search up came a link for this video. So I watched it. And then I noticed it was 10 year old post. BUT HEY GIRL it's still relevant today. One reason I often favor pigment dies is they wash up or off my metal dies and embossing folders and stamps with good ole water maybe now and again a wee bit of soap helps. Meantime I'm off to see if Scrapbook has a contact email to ask where's their hybrid inks. Thanks for the tip I'll send it along to my friend who started making cards not long after I did. We share a lot of supplies and information back and forth.
Brilliant! Thanks so much for sharing this Jenny. I have a few pads that are drying up. Lee xx
You can also use a product made by Ranger called "Perfect Refresher"...it is a spray on resin that is made to re-wet stamp pads that are still inky, but dry. It works GREAT!!
Thanks for the video I did the same thing. I got them from TM too, disappointed that they were dry. Spritzes of water did the magic.
Awesome :D, I bought a tub of stamping stuff from a thrift store and found some dried out ink pads in them. They still look good but I can't get any color out of them. But hopefully I can save myself a 20 minute drive to the closest craft store. Fingers crossed that it'll work
I bought some of the Exquisite pads from Tuesday Morning....the pigment based pads. They were also very dry. I think I'm going to try a little Perfect Refresher on them and see what happens. But they're still usable. Great for inking edges or using on the textured cardstock like you did b/c they're not too juicy. TFS, Heather
It really works, thank you dear!
Since pigment ink is alcohol based, shouldn't you spritz it with alcohol instead of water?
Wouldn't you need a different way for dye, pigment and chalk inks?
Yay... will not have to throw out the pads...tfs
I have colorbox inks that are dry what can I do to be able to use them again. Thanks
Thanks for the tipp
Thank u 0:)