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RUBBER STAMPING INK PADS & REINKERS

Ink pads are made by many different companies. We offer some of our favorites.

RANGER INDUSTRIES INK PRODUCTS

ADIRONDACK Ink Pads, Reinkers, Pigment Pens, Alcohol Inks & Acrylics

Acid-free, dye ink, in sophisticated tones by Ranger Industries.

adirondack ink pads
Adirondack Products
including the new Pigment inks

DISTRESS Dye Ink Pads & Reinkers

These are slow drying inks which can be spritzed or wiped with water after inking an image or wiping the ink pad directly on paper to create an aged look.
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Ranger Distress Ink Pads

ARCHIVAL Ink Pads and Reinkers

Acid-free, Permanent, dye ink, great for using with watercolors or markers. Bright Colors great for resist on coated paper.

archival permanent ink pads
Archival Ink Pads

SEA SHELLS Dye Ink Pads & Reinkers

Non-toxic, fast drying ink, great for shadow stamping.

seashells ink pads
Sea Shells Ink

 

SEA BRIGHTS Dye Ink Pads & Reinkers

Non-toxic, fast drying ink, vibrant colors.


Sea Brights Ink

 

WASHABLE 4 Stamps Ink Pads

This ink is great for kids. It washes off most non-pourous surfaces and most clothes with soap and wather.


Washable 4 Stamps Ink Pads



NICK BANTOCK Dye Ink Pads & Reinkers

Dye based ink, non-toxic, acid-free.


Nick Bantock Pads and Reinkers

 

ARCHIVAL Jumbo Ink Pads

#3 Size ink pads, measuring 6 1/4" x 4 1/4". These are the only extra large size pads we carry. They are nearly twice the size as the standard #0 size.

archival permanent ink pads
Archival Ink Pads

UNINKED Ink Pads and CUT N' DRY

Ink pads, ink pad foam and felt, rainbow ink pads, all with no color so you can create your own custom ink pads or applicators.


Uninked Ink Pads

MARVY UCHIDA

MARVY MATCHABLES Ink Pads

We carry most colors of this classing dye based ink and reinker. The small raised pad inks any size stamp and stacks to keep your workspace neat. The pad is a little different technology than others and makes for a beautiful clean image. Acid free / non-toxic

Marvy Matchables Ink Pads

 

MARVY MATCHABLES Wet Looks Pens

These are designed to match the Marvy Matchables ink pads. They stay wet on glossy paper so you can emboss part of an image you've colored with them. Water based / non-toxic

Marvy Matchables Embossing Markers

MARVY Dee Gruenig Signature Series
Blending Blox

These rainbow pads match the Dee Gruenig Marvy Brush Markers. Acid free / non-toxic

Marvy Dee Grunig Blending Blox

Dee Gruenig Signature Series
MARVY Brush Markers

These are the latest colors of brush markers offered by Marvy-Uchida. Use them to ink your stamp instead of an ink pad so you can have multi-colored detail or just so you don't have to tote your ink pads with you. Acid free / non-toxic

Marvy Matchables Ink Pads

 

STEWART SUPERIOR INK PRODUCTS

PALETTE HYBRID Ink Pads

Use these on any surface. Acid Free, Archival and Non-Fading and Waterproof.

Palette Hybrid Ink Pads


Palette Hybrid Ink Pads

 

MEMORIES Archival Dye Ink

Memories is dye ink in a raised pad. We've decided to carry just Black, Gold, Silver, and White.

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Select Colors of Memories Ink Pad


NEW! Palette Metallics Ink Pads

TRANSFER INK

Use to transfer a stamped image onto another surface with a more muted look than the original.
Transfer Ink

 

 

 

 

Palette Stamp ann Stick

PALETTE Glue Pad

Stamp on glossy paper, heat and you have a sticky image you can adhere leafing, glitter, or flocking to!
Palette Glue Pad

TSUKINEKO INK PRODUCTS

MEMENTO Ink Pads

Fast drying dye based ink that is fade resistant. Unique pad design provides beautiful even coverage.

 Memento full size pads and reinkers coming soon!

ENCORE Metallic Pigment Ink Pads & Reinkers

Encore Ultimate Metallic Stamp Pads are pigment inks best used on non-glossy paper. Ideal for scrapbooking because it’s the quickest-drying true metallic ink currently available.

Encore Pigment Ink

STAZON Ink Pads & Reinkers

Acid-free, Archival, Fast drying solvent. Designed especially for use on plastic, metal, glass, ceramic, laminated or, coated paper and leather. Dries in 3-5 minutes on non-porous surfaces like plastic.

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StazOn Ink Pads

KALEIDACOLOR Dye Ink Pads

Rainbow Dye Ink Pads with sliding mechanism to keep colors from bleeding when not in use. We carry all 20 color combinations.

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Kaleidacolor Ink Pads

VERSAFINE Permanent Ink Pads


VersaFine Ink Pads

Tsukineko Essential Glue Pad

This adhesive in an ink pad allows you to stamp an image and cover it in glittler, chalk, pigment powders, foil or flocking

Essential Glue Pad

Walnut Ink Sprays

8 different colors including the 4 newest pastel colors. Spray ink for distressing or tinting pages.


Tsukineko Spray Walnut Ink

VERSACOLOR Pigment Ink Pads & Reinkers

High quality, slow drying embossable pigment ink pads in standard size and small.



VersaColor Pigment Ink Pads

VERSACRAFT Ink Pads

Formerly named Fabrico - are archival and acid free, making them great for scrapbooking. They are designed for stamping on fabric and wood and also work great for leather, shrinjk ploastic, polymer clay and procelin. Click on the image for for information.

VersaCraft (Fabrico) Fabric Ink Pads

BRILLIANCE Fast Drying Pigment Ink Pads & Reinkers

These vibrant, shimmering ink pads are fast drying and great for stamping on vellum and gloss paper as well as polymer clay, acetate and mica.



Brilliance Ink Pads

CLEARSNAP / COLOR BOX INK PRODUCTS

FLUID CHALK Ink Pads & Reinkers

ColorBox Chalk ink is a new kind of dye ink in a skin-foam ink pad. Many stampers have enjoyed watercoloring with the reinkers. Click here for comparisons of different chalk inks.

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ColorBox Fluid Chalk Ink

COLORBOX Mica Magic Ink Pads & Refills

Shimmering metallic ink, dries on porous and non-porous surfaces, non-toxic, acid free.



ColorBox MicaMagic

PIGMENT PETAL POINTS

ColorBox Pigment Petal Points are collections of pigment ink mini-pads which can be removed and used individually. Because they are pigment inks, they are perfect for embossing. Petal Points can be used to make a marbled background using direct to paper (DTP) technique. You can also Petal Points with a brayer to create great modernist backgrounds.

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ColorBox Petal Points

COLOR BOX CAT'S EYE QUEUES

Stackable mini cat's eye ink pads, available in pigment ink collections as well as fluid chalks.

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ColorBox Cat's Eye Queues

CRAFTER'S MULTI-PURPOSE INK

Acid free pigment ink that becomes permanent when heat set, making it great for fabric, wood, shrink plastic and more.


Clearsanp Crafter's Options Ink Pads


Crafter's Reinkers

ANCIENT Ink Pads & Reinkers

Rich and vibrant dye based ink pads. These are permanent, acid-free and light-fast.


Ancient Page Ink Pads & Reinkers

VIVID Reinkers

Dye based ink that is skin safe and non-permanent. These work great with water misters to soften or waterclor.


Vivid Reinkers

COLORBOX Pigment Reinkers

Pigment ink refills for ColorBox Pigment Petal Points and Cat's Eye Queues.


ColorBox Pigment Reinkers

CLEARSNAP / COLOR BOX INK PRODUCTS & JAQUARD

JACQUARD CASTAWAY PAD

This is a new product that stamps clear but when you iron the stamped image, it lightens the paper, similar to, but much more effectively than stamping with bleach.


Castaway Pad

PINATA Alcohol Inks

Bright colors create a much different look than the earthtone look than Ranger's Alcohol Inks and can be used in the same way.

Pinata Alcohol Ink
Pinata Alcohol Ink

PEARL EX Ink Pads

Pearl-Ex stamp pads are permanent ink pads that come in gold-tone duos, metallics, interference, and basic colors.


ColorBox Fluid Chalk Ink

VARIOUS, OTHER AND CLEANERS

RESIST & EMBOSSING Ink

Resist inks prevent colored dye ink from coloring glossy or coated papers. Stamp first in resist ink, then color over with dye ink by stippling, brayering or shadow stamping.


Resist & Embossing Ink

Rubber Stamp CLEANERS

Rubber Stamp Cleaners. Productions for cleaning ink from your rubber stamps.

rubber stamp cleaners
Rubber Stamp Cleaners

Walnut Ink Crystals

Acid-free natural walnut ink crystals. Just add water to paint with spritz with or create your own ink pad. Use this product to create wonderfully aged looking artwork.

walnut ink crystals
Walnut Ink Crystals

Rubber Stamping Basics

Rubber Stamp Ink Pads
Written for newer rubber stampers who want to learn about different types of rubber stamping ink. This primer is not designed to cover all brands and kinds of ink available, just the most common inks used for rubber stamping.

Rubber Stamping Ink Types
The most common inks are either be dye or pigment based. Dye ink can be permanent or non-permanent or permanent only after heat activation. Dye inks can contain alcohol to help speed drying or be alcohol-free. Scrapbookers and some rubber stamp artists only use dye inks that are labeled acid-free to indicate they will not damage paper over years. Memories, Ranger Sea Shells, Ranger Adirondack, Ranger Archival, Ranger Distress, Clearsnap Ancient Page (available in petal points) and ColorBox Chalk Ink Pads (available in full size, cat's eyes, options pads or petal points) are the dye ink pads that we currently carry.

Most pigment ink is generally thick and slow drying on paper. It may never dry on non-pourous surfaces, like plastic or metal because it often contains glycerin. This property makes it excellent for using with embossing powders. We carry VersaColor pigment ink in standard size ink pads, and small ink cubes as well as the reinkers. Even though the VersaColor colors are richer a little higher quality, we also carry the ColorBox pigment Petal Points, as they are a good shape for rubbing and wiping lightly directy on paper to add random color.

Some pigment inks don't contain a faster drying base than glycerine and can be heat set for permanence even on plastic or vellum. It is generally faster drying and should not be allowed to dry before applying embossing powders, and may or may not be successful for embossing. Ranger Antiquities Ink is one fast drying brand that we carry and it is embossable. It can be heat set for use on plastic, or vellum. Tsukineko Brilliance is another brand and is harder to emboss with. Brilliance inks dry naturally on smooth surfaces like vellum or coated paper.

Some inks are solvent based. StazOn is a solvent based ink pad that requires a special cleanser to remove the excess from your stamp. It is completely opaque and dries on smooth surfaces and has become very popular for stamping on CD's, microscope slides, dominos, glass, metal and acetate. It isn't recommended for fabrics.

Palette Hybrid Ink pads are suitable for all surfaces, including fabrics. They need to be heat set to be completely permanent. They provide good coverage but are not all completely opaque. The ink is easier to clean off than StazOn ink.

Rubber Stamp Pad Types
Dye ink is mostly stored in a cloth covered felt pad. These hold a lot of ink and very rarely need to be reinked, with the exception of some chalky ink types. Recently some manufacturers have started using a new type of ink pad with some types of dye inks. It is a foam pad with a high density "skin" on top of it. It allows more ink to be collected on the stamp. These are quite unique and different to use. The down sides to them is that when they are new or newly reinked it can be easy to get too much ink on them without pressing hard. They also run out of ink faster and need reinking more regularly. ColorBox Chalks are stored in this type of pad, which is why we carry the reinkers.

Pigment ink pads usually come in foam pads. They need to be reinked much more regularly than standard dye ink pads and are much easier to over-ink. These inks need to come in a softer pad in order to get even coverage on the stamp. Antiquities Ink is an embossable chalky ink that comes in a traditional felt pad because the user is trying to get a mottled, aged look. For an even clear image, this wouldn't be a good recommendation. Some rubber stampers buy reinkers and make their own ink pads, with dry foam or felt.

New Chalky Inks
Three ink manufacturers have come out with new chalky ink. It provides softer, muted colors. We've done some side by side comparisons and the results are provided here.

Resist, Watermark & Embossing Inks
Resist ink is designed to resist dye based ink, so if it is stamped onto clear glossy paper and then dye ink is applied over that, the image that was stamped would resist the ink. There are two brands of resist ink. Both are designed to work on glossy or coated paper and will not provide any resist effect on standard card stock at all. Ranger Industries Clear Resist Ink resists stronger and sharper than VersaMark. It seems to watermark very similarly to VersaMark. The only reason we would recommend VersaMark over Clear Resist would be for its ability to hold embossing powders. Clear Resist is quite inferior as an embossing powder because it is not wet enough. This is the same reason it makes a stronger resist.
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