Tuesday Tip - roughing up your stamp

You know sometimes when you get a new stamp and you ink it up with a inkpad and more often times with markers, the ink balls up instead of having nice, even coverage.  Then, when you stamp, it doesn't look like a nice crisp image.  This happens a most of the time with stamps that have a large, bold image. To fix this, you need to make the rubber not so slick.  Some suggest to use a nail buffer to make the ink.  I've tried this and it's ok, but I've recently came across the BEST IDEA EVER!!!  First, make sure your stamp is cleand and then just rub it across the carpet. This takes the smoothness of the rubber off, but doesn't leave the streak marks of the nail buffer! Let me know if you've ever had this problem and what your solution is.