Even if you’re an arts and crafts natural, there are going to be times when you make mistakes while rubber stamping. Maybe you used the wrong color or not enough ink, smudged a beautiful stamped image or set of images, or your embossing just doesn’t look quite right. Sometimes, it may make sense to scrap your work and get more paper out and try again. Other times, there are ways to recover from your mistake and salvage your work. In this article, we’ll take a look at some tips on this subject. After all, making mistakes is never pleasant, but it can be very helpful to know what to do in such situations.
There are some mistakes that you can easily recover from. For example, if you creative a stray line or smudge and you have a white background, you can use a white correction pen with a fine tip to cover over your mistake.
Other recoveries will take a bit of care. For example, if you find that you didn’t put enough ink on the stamp or didn’t put enough pressure while inking, you may be able to fill in the area with a stippled or light dotting effect so that no one will ever notice. If your embossing looks grainy or bumpy instead of professional looking, try adding a few seconds with the heat gun. You can also hide smudging or wayward lines by adding a sponged on background color. This will have the added bonus of providing an extra design feature for your stamping.
There are some cases in which it is better just to start over and learn from your mistakes. In the case of over-embossing – if the image changes color or paper is scorched – you must scrap that attempt and begin again. Some people think that using the wrong color for inking is another such unrecoverable mistake. While this is most times the case, you can also take this opportunity to stamp the image in the correct color next to the wrong color to create a multi-dimensional look.
