I have decorated my own writing papers for many times but not shown you it all. I still am using old papers that I inherit from my grand mother and my kids' old school notebooks. After each grade I pile the notebooks up and took off the empty unused pages. It is a great way to save the nature resources and recycle.
For cleaning your stamps you don't need any special equipment or expensive liquids. Warm water, old toothbrush and kitchen towel do just fine. It the ink needs something stronger than a water, a normal kitchen soap does just fine.