Canvas Background
 

I just got the new Canvas Background stamp and I am having trouble with lines from the ink showing up when I stamp it. I tried smoothing it out, but that doesn't help. Any ideas? Or how do you get the big background stamped well without the lines?

I ink mine up with the brayer. Works like a charm!

I had this at first too. I try to ink the stamp with the stamp facing up and pat the pad on the stamp. Then I try to kind of run the stamp over it to make sure it's smoothed around and doesn't have "pat" lines from inking it. This seemed to help. Good luck!

Canvas
 

Thank you. I will try the Brayer! Both are great ideas. Have a great day!

I have to tell you...I was doing a bunch of cards using a background stamp for a swap. I always layed the stamp wood-side down on the table and pressed the ink pad on top of it. Well, that was taking WAY too long and so I decided to try the brayer. WOWZA!!!!!! :) It was amazing how easy it was to get a nice even layer of ink on that background stamp.

I HIGHLY recommend using the brayer to ink up those large stamps. I will NEVER do it any other way!
- Susan

Do you use the foam or the rubber??? I am not very handy with the brayer. I have tried it once or twice and my attempts were not so good:) Maybe I am just "brayer challenged"!
Cathy Marie

Use the rubber brayer. The foam brayer is more when you work with templates.

I don't have a brayer....great, now it looks like I have to add something else to my SAB list! Although, I'm not sure how much I'll use a brayer...

shaunagroff,

Once you have a brayer, you'll find you use it all the time. At least I do, it is great for big stamps, aging cardstock, flattening crumpled cardstock, etc. I might invest in another one, because I clean mine by running it under the faucet and am very impatient when I am using it for several colors, sometimes drying with the towel just takes too darn long! LOL :wink:

Valerie