ETA 6/23 page 2 Stamp Shammy, AKA: cleaning your stamps

I just squirt a little water or stamp cleaner on them and wipe on a microfiber towel.  When my towel gets disgusting I toss it in the wash.

I use the CTMH shammy. It lasts forever.
I scrub my stamps. There is some wear on mine but still going strong for a year.
They come in a 2 pack.

I have the LF shammy. I have one of those fuzzy stamp scrubbers that's kind of like a wall painting pad. I have one of the spray stamp cleaners. I have some old dish towels and some microfiber cloths.

I keep the shammy in an old CM rectangle punch container (remember those?). It's very convenient when on the go, like at my local SU demo's house. I've read that you can buy big car cleaning shammies for cheap at Amazon (or probably a local auto parts shop) and cut them to stamp shammy size. This yields a near lifetime supply for not much more than the cost of one craft-branded one.

I haven't used the paint style scrubber lately. I've seen them used with water on one end or with stamp cleaning spray on one end (the other end left dry for drying stamps. This clearly works better for wood-mount stamps or polymers on an acrylic block, not so much when you use a platform -- just figured out why I have used it lately -- haha.

At home I often just spritz and wipe with either the microfiber or the towel.

As I was posting I had to run and didn't finish my post.

So I like the LF shammy. I think it lasts a long time. If it gets too inky I just throw it in the wash with rags/shop towels. I tried the absorber and the cooling towels (chamois-type material that you put on the back of your neck when working or hiking in hot weather) they both seemed to shred and not last long at all.

For really dirty background stamps I use the scrubber thingy like Shakti mentioned with a spritz of Hero Arts or Ranger stamp cleaner.

I found the microfiber and baby wipes left lint behind.

I have a Lawn Fawn Shammy and a Stampin UP Shammy. SLight preference for the LF as its thinner, but both work excellently well. A Shammy for car cleaning also does the trick- I just like the pretty coloured ones 

I use a microfiber cloth and water or home made cleaner for general cleaning off my stamps , but some just too detailed or the ink is too. stubborn. For that I got Hero Arts scrubby thingy gets into every little space and I can clean it while its still on the stamping platform. Got some extra pads and after playing with my hot foiling I found that its great to clean up over foiling or to clean those little hanging on foil bits off too. So I'm keeping a clean one with my hot foiling products.


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Ooh! The local auto parts store has a Rain-X synthetic shammy they call the Swiper. Swiper, no swiping! Lol.

MichyM I'm so glad you posted this.  My Gina K tiny towel started shredding quickly also which is totally disappointing.  I though it was me using it incorrectly but it seems like it's just the way it works unfortunately.

I've always used the Costco Kirkland brand wipes and I loved them.  They cleaned perfectly and never left any lint.  However, I don't have a Costco membership so my BFF would pick up the box for me.  The last box was different.  I'm not sure if they've revamped the wipes or if she got me a different version but these are way wetter, like to the point where my stamps and platform have to be wiped with a dry cloth because they are soaked.  They just don't work as good as the others wipes.

I've been eyeing the hero arts scrubber so I may pick one of those up.

azcrafty @giantsfan Is the Hero Arts scrubby the same material as the scrubby in the black case or the paint pads?

I took a class with Gina K in April. She has a new and improved cloth that she gave us. It works really well.

If yours are the older version, you may want to try the new one.

I also use an Absorber. I bought it sometime just before the LF shammy came out. I cut off a piece and I’m still using that same piece. I store it in a plastic clamshell soap dish. It’s stained as hell and if it gets closed up really starts to smell, but cleans up beautifully with regular soap and water (smell) but stains remain from some inks. Pet fur does not stick. It gets very slick in water and nothing sticks to it. I find I can really scrub my stamps and they come clean and it doesn’t fall apart.