I LOVE MY STAZON INK!!! It's my MAIN ink for Letterboxing for several reasons. First, I love STAZON so much, I literally glued my 2x3 signature stamp to the top of the LID of my Red Pad!! My thinking? When I stamp my trail stamp into a logbook in the woods...if THAT logbook EVER gets wet --I AM STILL IN THERE! When things are stamped in waterbase inks...they fade, run together and often when wet enough...completely disappear. :'(.

IDEA FOR FELLOW STAZON OWNERS: I took those ever important plastic covers inside the cover to keep the alcohol ink from drying out as fast, and added a 3D pop dots to the underside of the main lid, to adhere the plastic cover to the lid. Why? A. To keep it from blowing away in the wind when I'm out on the trail B. To keep the plastic&lid together so there's one less thing to hold onto when I'm Stampin in and lastly C. So when I remove the lid--the plastic comes off AT THE SAME TIME! :-D

Ps: All of my 10+ STAZON inks are "stuck" together into groups of 4 by putting 3D ZOTS onto the 4 corners of the underside of the lids. They all nestle laying down in my fanny pack for easy retrieval when out on the trail. I do have marvy markers if the carve is a positive image and not a negative one I can color in later. ;). BUT I don't use waterbase markers for anything OUT IN THE WILDERNESS, that would be damaged by soaking.

NOW I EVEN HAVE REINKERS FOR ALL MY STAZON! Woo hoo! Don't throw away those pads! :-D. There's a location in Ohio that has EVERY reinkers color STAZON makes!! Side note: Hobby Lobby has the MOST color variety of STAZON inks, at least in my area. I buy ONE pad at a time with a coupon, of course. ;)

I saw your Stazon "stacks" at the last event we attended and commented that I thought that was a great idea. Think I'll bookmark this post and take action on my own Stazon pads following your example soon.

I love the idea of putting the dots inside the lids. I dont really use my staz on much, because of that reason. I use Versafine because it also is permanent. But I will use that tip for him..

I'm not sure what you meant about sticking them together... you actually stick four ink pads together? Interesting.....

HH,

Thanks so much for sharing these wonderful ideas. I have also seen your stacks and wondered how you did it. This is going to be my project for this upcoming week: to organize my ink pads more efficiently.

And I did not know about the reinkers...Hobby Lobby...with a coupon...wonderful.

Keep those helpful hints coming, please.

Hi HH, Like your idea of the stick on lid covers. It sounds interesting. Are there pictures on AQ to see? I'm needing more ink, thanks for the tip. FF awesome pic of you and the friendly butterflies in your hair. That's too cool!

Thanks, Scouttrekkie. I've been meaning to change my profile for a while. It's nice to see siggy stamps... but it's also nice to know who you're talking to!

I glued an old sig. stamp to the top of a stamp pad along time ago, but I don't use that stamp anymore. I don't think Hobby Lobby has the reinkers. At least ours does not. HH-What's the name of the place you got the reinkers?

I started using the versafine black also because of the attached 'flip top' lid. So much easier and it stamps really well, but only comes in black as far as I know.

Versafine comes in lots of colors: http://www.tsukineko.com/store/cart.php?m=product_list&c=18 I only have one (Majestic Blue - gorgeous color!) because that attached flip top drives me nuts - it just gets in my way!