After reading the many negative reviews for this set of stamps I decided to try them out right away, in case I needed to return them. I had a completely positively experience with all of the stamps in this set. I use rubber stamps in my art journal but I tried them on several different kinds of paper, on journal page backgrounds (with gesso, acrylic paints, inks and stains), and using a variety of ink pads. Ink pads included Ranger archival, VersaFine, VersaMagic chalk, Tim Holtz Distress, Memento, and StazOn. All of the inks stamped beautifully on the regular papers I tried, and also on my journal pages (some needed to be dried with my heat tool on the painted pages). One thing I've learned about inking this sort of stamp is that you need to apply your ink by dabbing it on the stamp with the ink pad instead of pressing the stamp onto the pad. I hope this review is helpful to anyone else thinking of buying these stamps, they create a beautiful background and are crazy to clean.