I have yet to master the art of stamping with silicone-type stamps. The reinking stamps? I'm golden. The wood stamps with rubber? I'm fine with those, too. The clear silicone-looking stamps?
Whimper.
I've watched videos and they claim the problem is over-inking the stamp. Made sense. I've tried to be careful ever since I saw that, but it doesn't seem to make a difference. It's always a disaster. Always.
My latest disaster happened when I tried to stamp in my Nonfiction Reading Journal. You remember that one with the steampunk theme? I hadn't been reading any nonfiction, so it sat. And then when I figured out that I could knit and listen to audiobooks or drive and listen to audiobooks, I powered through a couple of short ones.
I know I have trouble stamping and worked extra hard to be careful.
I ended up with ink on my kitchen table, ink on some other papers I had nearby, ink on the two acrylic blocks I had out, and ink all over my hands. Where was there no ink? That would be on the left-hand side of the rating stars that I was trying to stamp.
It's so frustrating! I would use stickers, but then that will bulk out the journal and I'm already using stickers for the book covers.
I do have some washi sticker paper. That's thinner than regular sticker paper, but also, it's expensive. I don't want to use it just because I'm incapable of using a clear stamp on an acrylic block. This is impacting not only my book journal, but a few other craft things I wanted to use stamps for.
Why is this so hard for me?
