Vendor Spotlight: EK Success Brands - Stamping with Inkadinkadoo

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Reported by Taylor Usry


What a happy mail day it was when all these fabulous goodies from EK Success arrived!! Three awesome Inkadinkado acrylic stamp sets (Pumpkins Galore, Pattern Play Halloween, Spooky & Creepy), an adorable mini acrylic stamp (Haunted Tree), two high quality wood mounted rubber stamps (Pumpkin and Among the Stars), a clear mini block, and my favorite new toy - the decorative edge punch.

I've never used an EK Success edge punch before. I have several regular punches, but this (for me anyway) was a new and improved experience. The coolest thing to me was that the punch has a little sliding button on the bottom to lock the punch in its closed position. What a great feature!! Look at the super slim profile it creates! If all of my edge punches stored like this, I'd have way more space!

And it stands up well too - it does not fall over or lean, like some punches do. It has a great weight to it - not too clunky, yet heavy enough to feel like you are definitely going to get some use out of it. I am getting tons of use out of this punch already - my daughter loves the "bat confetti" we can make by using the punch, so we are filling treat bags with it (along with the candy, of course!)


I had so much fun with these faces from the Spooky and Creepy set! I was super pleased with the acrylic used in this set - it is very thick, so when I peeled each small stamp off I did not at all feel like I was going to tear any of the stamps. I got a totally retro vibe from these stamps - like from those old B movies, remember?? Too cute!


Overall, I loved everything that I used from EK Success. I've always been a fan of the Inkadinkado line of stamps - they are very high quality. The acrylic, in my experience, does not yellow (I tested these with Stazon, Tuxedo Black ink, and Versafine Black ink and they all came off just fine, with the stamps looking good as new).

If I am forced to pick one negative aspect to any of these products, it is the clear acrylic mini block. For me, it is just too small. It fits the stamps just fine but I think it is too thin - I like a chunkier block. It works perfectly fine, though! And for the price, it is an excellent deal. I know - not much of a negative -- but what can I say??

Oh - a quick tip for acrylic stamps: sometimes, new ones may not give you a clear image. This only happened on one or two of the stamps I tested from EK Success, but the solution is simple: lightly rub the stamp with an eraser (I used a pencil eraser - it was the closest one handy) and then clean it. Everything should work perfectly then!!

EK Success has generously donated some of the products featured in the weeks reviews to give away to our great readers! Please leave your comments on this article to win a set of Mindscape Halloween Clear Stamps from EK Success. You have until Sunday, October 18 at Midnight to enter.