How to Clean Stamps for Scrapbooking

Video Transcript

"Hi. This is Stephanie and I'm gonna talk about cleaning your stamps. It's important that you take care of your stamps so that they'll last a long time. I mean you can technically leave your ink on there but it's still gonna be there the next time that you go stamp and it will start to discolor the rubber. This way is you can clean both acrylic and rubber stamps. You get a stamp pad like this and you spray one side. There's a special mist that will help clean it and help keep the stamps healthy. You just gently rub it. If you get it too wet what happens is a lot of the color will, you know, jump up and get on the wood part of your stamp. So if you don't want that look, be careful you don't put too much. Once you've got it all cleaned off you just rub it on the dry side. And it works. If you don't want to invest in something like this you can always buy baby wipes. They tend to be a little bit more messy and they're not recommended if you want your stamps to last a super long time because eventually they kind of corrode the rubber but I've used them before in a pinch and they work fine. You can use, to clean foam stamps, you can use these but they're a lot more precarious because they're just glued on here and if you have to rub them hard and you use paint it tends to not work as well. So I would recommend just taking these take the foam stamp, the foam applicator that you use to put on here, the brush and just run it under some water and just rub it all around and it will clean off just as easy. When this has gotten messy, sometimes if you use this a lot it starts to get discolored and it's picking up other inks. Just take this part off, it pulls out of these things, and just throw it in your dishwasher. And run it through your dishwasher and it will be clean and it'll just go right through and it doesn't discolor ceramic or anything like that so it's fine. So definitely invest in something like this to keep your stamps good and your stamps will thank you for it in the years to come. "