Hi Peeps.

I was wondering if you could give me some advice on selecting a good white ink for stamping over coloured papers/cardstock. The main thing I want to do is add my own stamped backgrounds to various coloured card/paper (plain and already patterned) to make my own custom papers for cards and scrapbooking. I've got some Inkadinkadoo (sketchy flourishes) and damask stamps that I think would look great but I haven't had any success with the inks I've tried so far.

I recently purchased white Ink It Up! (dye based) from Hobbycraft but it was really faint on coloured paper and I had to press the pad really hard on the stamp to get a decent amount of ink on it. So I swapped it for Hobbycraft's Ink Pad (pigment based) and this one is worse - it's completely transparent on coloured paper. Is it because they are cheap (under £3.00)?

I was considering buying StazOn in white as I have the jet black and apart from it being a bit 'sticky' it gives good impressions, but as the white one isn't cheap, before I splashed out I was wondering whether anyone had a preference or a recommendation. I was also looking at Adirondack Paint Dabbers but the shop I looked in only had Metallic Pearl and I didn't really want a shimmery image. I've since found one in 'Snow Cap' on Scrap Revolution's site but wasn't sure if it would be better to go for this acrylic paint dabber rather than ink.

Any advice you could give me would be really helpful.

Thanks so much!