LOVE the craft pads. My sister has the classic and I have craft. I like the rich opaque color that stays true to the original regardless of the color of the paper beneath. I don't know about others, but when I stamped an only orange pad on black the other day it was only orange colored WHEN it was fully dry. I use a heat gun to help it along. When you first stamp the colored craft pads on dark paper they aren't as opaque. They become opaque as they dry.
They do take longer to dry, but as the pad ages this drying time reduces. I prefer also to know that my scrapbooks will not fade out in a few years. Other's don't believe this will happen, but I work really hard on my scrap pages and I don't want to take the chance.
I enjoy embossing with my craft pads. I only need clear EP and I have every color in the spectrum. I like doing poppin pastels and pearl x with my craft pads. I made a card the other day with leaves stamped with a rust craft pad. I then dabbed a bit of pearl x to the edges but left some of the rust colored ink uncolored. It was stunning.
I love the way my craft ink coats the rubber and gives an even image. Dye inks can bead up on our broad rubber stamps and give a blotchy look. Craft ink coats the stamp evenly and looks lovely.
Dye pads are great and they have some really cool techniques that you can only do with dye based ink. But for my everyday stamping, I pull out my craft pads. When I really do need dye, well, kinda sacrilidge, but I've been secretly collecting adarondak-- they are fade resistant. I'm truly a scrapper at heart.
Hope this helps. Keep on stampin' no matter what your pad variety!
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