I need help!

[mommaoftwo]

I just bought my first stamps and some markers for them

but by the time I am done coloring the stamp half of it is too dry to do anything!

I tried coloring really fast but that just makes my marker felt up and have bits that fall off.

How do you do multi color stamps??

[farrah_js]

First of all what kind of markers are you using? Certain inks allow a technique that you can do called "huffing". Here's a link to an example. You color all of your markers then you basically breathe on the stamp to remoisten the inks back to life and stamp.  Just google "Huffing a stamp" and you will get many posts on it.

I found this.

COLOR THE RUBBER DIE OF THE STAMP 
Coloring directly on the rubber die of your art stamp using a variety of colors will give you an accurately colored design which could not be achieved using a stamp pad. Because it takes longer to hand-ink a stamp in this way, the color you applied first may begin to dry out before you are ready to stamp. Breathing or "huffing" on the stamp surface as if to fog a mirror will re-activate the ink.

also I believe it works well with watercolor pens and maybe die inks. Not pigments. 

If anyone else has any input that would be great.

[mommaoftwo]

awesome! thank you so much! I will try that out in a bit when the littlest one is happy about being put down lol

[farrah_js]

Great! Let me know how it turns out for you. If not we will figure something out. What kind/brand are the markers?

[soccerjunki]

 Can you stamp the image with a solid color..like brwon or black then color them in with your markers?

 

oh and welcome to the group!

[mommaoftwo]

Yes and no

Some of them I can, but this particular christmas tree stamp I got, is scrollwork, just a single like. Ive gotten to the point where I might decide to just do the whole stamp in green, and then emboss the gold star on top

Quoting soccerjunki:

 Can you stamp the image with a solid color..like brwon or black then color them in with your markers?

 

oh and welcome to the group!