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Originally Posted by CorinnaOARIs there a difference? I notice the pigment ink is much thicker or harder to stamp with. It ends up getting in the empty spaces where no ink should be. The dye ink works well. |
When using pigment ink, you might try turning your stamp image side up, and inking that way, instead of pressing the stamp into the inkpad. Inspect your image before you stamp, and if there's ink around the edges or inside an image, use a cloth or q-tip to remove the excess ink.
If you want to emboss an image, pigment's the way to go. But you can also ink your image with Versamark, then with dye ink: this will allow you to emboss dye ink. Check out Michelle Zindorf's blog for this technique. (
Blogs at Splitcoaststampers)
A lot of dye inks don't work well on clear stamps, but I've read here that if you lightly sand the clear images, they will accept dye ink better (haven't tried it yet myself.) One of those cheap pink erasers are said to do the trick on solid/rubber stamps if you have areas that are inking unevenly.