Roll Call~

Ink pads are best stored flat. Each pad is filled with liquid ink, and this ink can travel throughout the pad over time. If you stored your ink pads vertically, over time the ink would drop to the bottom edge of the pad, and you would no longer be able to get a fully-inked image when you tried to use the full surface of your ink pad.  For this same reason, it is highly recommended that you store your ink pads upside down.  This will keep the ink flow at the surface of the pad. This is especially important for dye-based ink pads, as this ink is thinner than other inks and will migrate through the pad at a faster rate.  Ink pads containing thicker inks, such as pigment ink, can be stored face up.
Upside down & stacked, my Distress Inks were difficult to identify...my solution? Labels~