Learn from my Mistakes

Last year at the winter RSC in Carson, Tim made me a Cut-N-Dry Felt Custom Stamp Pad.  Tim placed the pad in a zip lock plastic bag and told me to place it in my refrigerator until I was ready to use it.

I didn't make Christmas cards last year, so it's been over a year that the custom stamp pad has been in my refrigerator!  That's the pad in the bag above.

I stamped the pad and this is the image I got . . .

Not too shabby for a year in the fridge and no spritzing huh?

In Tim's video, he said that if you wanted to start over, you just needed to rinse out the colored inks.  Here's my rinsed out pad . . .

Notice how the print of the stamp is still there?

So I re-inked the pad with some other colors and this is what I got when I stamped this time.  As you can see, I didn't use enough ink in a lot of the areas of the pad.  I will need to go back and add more . . .

AND, see how the part at the bottom looks all splotchy?  That's because I didn't "tap off" the stamp on the pad before I stamped it onto the cardstock . . .

Ok, so I guess this isn't the sort of thing I should be doing after working all day with only 4 hours of sleep the night before *sigh*.  I'll go back and re-do my pad when I'm well-rested.

In the meantime, here's a video Tim did showing how to make the pad.  I take it he must have been well-rested when he made HIS! *smiles*