Tuesday Tips

Tuesdays at For the Love of Scrap are full of tips. These tips could be anything, for example:

• How to organize your craft space.
• Hosting a crop at your home.
• Getting the most from your supplies.
• Great scrapbooking sites.
• Answers to questions you send to me.
• An much more...

Today's Tuesday Tip is how to properly clean your craft stamps. Regardless of what type of stamps you use (foam, polymer, or rubber) they all must be cleaned after each use. Cleaning your stamps preserves its details, prevents it from becoming brittle and avoids accidental inkings.

For proper cleaning you will need a stamp cleaning pad and stamp cleaner.


If you use a solvent-based ink such as Staz-On, you will need a solvent ink stamp cleaner.

Of course, if you use both types of inks, it's best to have a separate stamp cleaning pad for each.

What I have found works best to clean my stamps is to first clean them with baby wipes, then scrub them on the stamp cleaning pad (with the proper stamp cleaner) and finish by patting them dry on a clean cloth.

I hope you found this week's Tuesday Tip helpful.

All the best,
Colleen