Ink Away - Craft Cleaning Wipes (Stamp-cleaning)

Get LF Shammy or the absorber.  I have both.  The absorber is thicker and much bigger.  I cut off a piece of it to use for stamping.  All you need is water with either one and it does an amazing job!

I've tried so many stamp cleaners over the years. I am also a convert to the Absorber. It's economical, no mess, travels well and totally low maintenance. And most importantly, it gets the job done!

I haven't used InkAway. But I have been using the LF shammy for a few months now. It works well.  I think I'll order a spare since I frequently misplace this one while stamping. Yes, I'm a messy crafter.

I have a version of the absorber as well and it works really well - any car synthetic shammy type cloth will be fine.

Piggy backing on this. My biggest issue is that with every stamp cleaner, there are fibers that come off and end up ruining my stamped images. The only solution I've found is soap and water, then letting it try (but if I want to use the same stamp in more than one color, this is not practical) or my DIY stamp scrubber (I use these www.homedepot.com/p/Shur-Line-Paint-Edger-Pad-Refills-2-Pack-200ZS/100076393 foam taped inside of a plastic travel baby wipes container) but because of the nature of the cleaners (I have several kinds) it leaves a greasy feel to the stamp and even the drying side doesn't pull out all of the product so then I feel like I still need to go back to soap and water.

Baby wipes, my Dollar Tree knock off shammy, paper towels...literally everything else I've tried leaves stray fibers on my stamps.

Does the absorber not do this? If it doesn't, I'm adding one to my next amazon order, stat!

Yay!!! 

I have the exact wipes in your original post. I feel like they are essentially very expensive baby wipes though of course I would not use the stamp ones on an actual baby, despite being blonde. I really didn't notice these or baby wipes leaving fibers but I am not a hard core stamper. Or maybe I am just a sloppy stamper and done care. Who knows...

No, not microfibre. It's smooth sort of like a very fine sponge. If you forward to 1:57 in this video, you can see the texture.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGpYnFOwY1M

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27x17 or something one in lime green is 7.50 as an addon on amazon. The rest are $10 and up. I need to buy a few bulbs and a new fridge drawer (thanks to my kids using it as a ladder to reach the top shelf...painful $50 lesson) so I plan to order it with all of that.

I've actually used up one tub/container/whatever-it's-called-in-English of InkAway cleaning wipes and can give you my personal thorough honest opinion on it:

1. It's not a great solution for not getting messy with stamp cleaning because you're essentially getting ink transfer from the wipe onto your hands if you're trying to be a little economic with it and getting the most use out of a wipe. That means ink under your nails and all over your finger tips which is annoying. (also slightly clingy fingers if you've used the wipes several times without washing your hands in between during a single scrap session, ugh)

2. Actually, you won't get much use out of a wipe! These dry up very quickly. If you're quick enough, you can clean a small stamp and open up the tub, put the wipe back in there (or in a separate properly closed tub) and reuse it for one more stamp. Nothing more than that in my experience!

3. It's a decent stamp cleaner but nothing miraculous. Again, I used these with mostly still wet stamps and don't let my used stamps dry up before cleaning them so can't tell you how good they are if you want to use these on stamps with ink that has already dried them on down.

4. It ain't getting StazOn out. At all.

5. The plastic tub isn't sturdy.

6. The wipes are small and thin. I've actually torn quite a few of these while using them.

7. If you're a regular nail polish wearer like I am, you're going to hate these so much! I've had to redo my manicure every single time I used these wipes because the product actually bit through the upper part of my topcoat and effectively stained the topcoat (and took away the shine + smoothness of it) with the ink colour I was removing from the stamp. If I did some heavier stamping, I actually would end the scrapping session with stained nails because the product had just worked its way through topcoat + nail polish + basecoat on at the very least the tips of my nails. Which worried me about it not being gentle on my stamps, meaning I ended up rewashing all my stamps in the sink anyway. Double the work! (well, triple if you factor in a new mani)

I now use a system with several bowls set on a tray next to me to clean my stamps as I use them. A simple non-fuzzy cloth, some mild cleaning up product and a final clear water bowl to get rid of any soapy residues. And StazOn cleaner for those difficult inks. I'm not getting those InkAway wipes again. So not worth the price, messy fingers/nails.

I ordered an Absorber too based on this thread. Thanks for the enabling!