Children and luxurious leather can be a clashing combination especially, when they get their hands of pens or markers. If you have a leather sofa or leather upholstered car seats, sooner or later, one of these youngsters will want to display their creative genius. To help you remove ink from your leather, here are some simple tips:What Type Of Leather Do You Have?First, you need to do it determine what type of leather you have. There are several different types and each one needs to be dealt with in a certain way. You certainly don't want to attack your leather with the wrong products and end up ruining it, so knowing what type of leather you have is very important. Upholstery leathers can be broken down into 3 basic categories:

• Nubuck: Has no sealer whatsoever and is porous


• Semi Finished: Typically, has a mottled, uneven looking color


• Fully Finished: Has a solid color with a sealer over the top.

Lets' take a close look at these...Nubuck:- If you have ink marks on this type of leather you have a serious problem on your hands! The ink has essentially soaked into the substrate and will need to be removed by a professional.Semi Finished:- You need to be careful with this one ... the technique I going to show you works well on Fully Finished Leathers but with semi finished leather, unless you can remove the ink without removing the color, I recommend you have this done by a trained professional.Fully Finished:- This is the easiest to remove ink from, and here's how to go about it:How To Remove Ink From Fully Finished LeatherSTEP 1:- For thin pen lines, dip a cotton bud into an alcohol such as: methylated spirits, white spirits or even isopropynol alcohol.STEP 2:- Very carefully, lightly rub the cotton bud over the ink mark as if you were rubbing out a pencil line with an eraser.You will almost immediately see the ink coming off onto the cotton bud. Now, keep revolving the cotton bud so that you are not smearing the ink around. If necessary, change the cotton bud for a clean one. For a large ink mark, you can do the same as I've just explained but instead of using a cotton bud, use a clean white cloth.What you are trying to do is remove the ink which is, hopefully, just sitting in the top layers of your leather finish. In doing so, you will also be removing some of the leather finish. If the ink hasn't gone too deeply into the leather finish, the mark should be able to be removed with this technique.There are 3 things which will determine how successful you are at removing the ink:1.What type of ink has stained your leather ...permanent marker or a ballpoint pen.2.How long the ink has been sitting on your leather. The longer it's left, the deeper it penetrates.3.How careful you are at removing the ink with the alcohol.If you do happen to break through the leather finish, all is not lost. For smaller areas, you can buy a pre-matched leather repair color, which will replace the color you have removed. Or, for large areas, you will need a leather expert to match it for you.