Inking your rubber stamp is easy. Place the stamp on a flat surface with the rubber side up. Open the ink pad you wish to use and 'dab' the ink directly on the surface of the rubber.

After applying the ink directly to the rubber side of the stamp, check the rubber to be sure all areas are covered with ink. Dab additional ink on any uninked areas.

Stamps that are larger than your ink pad can be inked by dabbing the ink on top of the rubber, while stamps that are smaller than your ink pad can be inked by tapped gently several times on the ink pad itself. Do not rub the stamp across the ink pad.

Ink parts of the image with different colors. Smaller ink pads, cubes, and Daubers are an easy way to add more than one color of ink to an image.

Add ink only to the image itself. Avoid getting ink on the rubber around the image or on the woodblock. Additional ink around the edges of the rubber can be removed with a cotton swab, before stamping on paper.