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Dreaming of a White Christmas, mixed media card

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Hello everyone! It's Olga again here today and I will try to inspire you :-) I hope you all enjoy this new day and have some time for new creations ;-) I want to share with you my new winter card "Happy holidays". It's again a little vintage and very snowy :-) I love snow and I love to add gesso, texture paste and some glitter to make my winter cards more natural. I used some of the stamps from the set Pines Fir Yew stamped with green acryl paints, and StazOon for the phrase Happy holidays. You all know that I love to use stamps with paint and StazOn and then cut them from the paper and put on my card.  I really love how it looks a nd I hope you will like it too :-))) Notice how I put a dew drop over the 'o' in Holidays. I think it adds a cute detail. I didn't use a lot of decor for this card and I love how it came out. Let's create something sweet and cute for our friends and families!!! :-)  Wish you a wonderful day! B

Recap Thursday - November Pretties

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Is it Christmas yet? Not quite, but we've been in a Holiday mood at Rubber Dance this month. If you need more Christmas stamps, we've got a few of those and there's still time to order - especially if you live in Europe (we ship from Norway - free gift wrapping upon request!) Need some inspiration for the holidays? - We have LOTS, so make yourself ready for a looooong post with many pretties all at once! :-) By Majo. Instructions here By Majo By Susanne By Olga By Gabriele By Katy By Susanne (video tutorial here ) By Bibi By Susanne By Helen (video tutorial here ) By Katy We've made more than Christmas pretties this month ... here are some samples: By Katy (fun aging technique - instructions here ) By Irit By Olga By Gabriele By Susanne By Ashley By Majo A big, BIG thanks to my FAB team and guest designers for making so many awesome pretties with my stamps.  I'm grateful beyond words for a

Frosty Paper Lantern

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Hi everyone! It's me, Susanne, today and I've another Christmas decoration today to share with you. I loved loved loved how the awesome Pine Fir Yew stampes turned out when they were embossed on the cards in my previous post. This time I did nearly the same. The only difference is that I embossed them on white vellum! Awesome! What do you think? I used my Silhouette Studio Cutting file from my last lantern and added a new window style. I cut everything out of red cardstock and added some "snow" using white acrylic paint, some white texture paste and finally lots of Distress Glitter Clear Rock Candy! I cut my vellum and embossed the stamped images with white detail embossing powder. After I adhered them into my lantern I ripped some of the paper out to create the look of broken glass. I used this funny sentiment stamp from Rubber Dance. I love it!  It's so charming! I also used the fir branch in a more traditional way. I stamped it on white pap

Make art: Two tutorials for one project

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Hello my dear crafty friends! It's Irit here and today I have two whole tutorials for one art piece I made with Rubber Dance stamps.  Introduction: This project was made with two separate tutorials: one for a frame and one for the central stamped art piece . Supply list:  IMAGINE Crafts/Tsukineko: VersaMark Watermark stamp pad, StazOn inks: Blazing Red, Azure, Mustard; Walnut ink Antiquing Solution: Terra Cotta, Walnut Ink; Goosebumps Clear Texture Spray; Shimmer Spritz Sparkle, Jumbo  dauber; Fantastix tool Rubber Dance stamps: Dancing woman collage , Music background, Da Vinci set, Vintage Birds set TCW: Wood grain stencil Prima: Flowers Flourish with a bling: Pearls Other: white chipboard, ruler, gesso, glossy cardstock Step by step instructions: Stamp your Dancing woman collage stamp with VersaMark ink over 8*6'' glossy cardstock and heat emboss with  fine black embossing powder Cut a piece of a car

Fall Gift Set

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Hi everyone, Steph Ackerman here today with some lovely stamps from Rubber Dance.  I've used the stamp set Pines Fir Yew, and began by randomly stamping the white gift bag. I inked up the entire sheet of rubber stamps with shades of brown ink.  Leaving the rubber flat, I placed a sheet of beige cardstock on top and used a brayer to transfer the images to the cardstock.  I cut the panel to fit and matted it with kraft cardstock.  I also inked up some ribbon so it coordinated better with my project. A Spellbinders die was cut from beige cardstock and added just above the ribbon.  Stickers spelled out Fall.  Using the same stamps, inks and papers as the gift bag, I made a coordinating card. I totally love these stamps and hope you do, too. Thanks for stopping by today. Steph To find this Pines Fir Yew set of rubber stamps, check out the Nature section over at the Rubber Dance web shop: www.rubberdance.com

Vintage Tags

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​ Hello everyone! It's guest designer Ashley here again, and today I am sharing two coordinating tags I made with the Travel stamp set and the Beach stamp set. These stamps remind me of vintage, muted, kind of messy things so I tried my hand at something not normally my style. For my first tag, I used a mask + misting on the background. The beautiful blue mist reminded me of the ocean. I stamped the sea shell stamps on the tag and heat embossed them with gold. Then I used a navy ink to stamp the sentiment a few times on a piece of patterned paper. I misted with gold and then cut it out in bits and pieces. Of course I heat embossed around the edges of my card with metallic blue embossing powder. For my next tag, I wanted it to coordinate with the vintage/travel theme but not be too matchy matchy. So for this one I blended distress ink for the background. I used walnut stain + antique linen distress inks which blend so beautifully and I think make the perfect

Christmas Luminary

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Hi everyone! It's me, Susanne, today and I'd like to show you a Christmas decoration piece. It's a star luminary. I love little lights all around the house when it's dark and cold outside. I stamped the lantern with the beautiful images from the "Pine Fire Yew" stamp set from Rubber Dance. I used craft cardstock for my lantern. After I cut my pieces I stamped my images with Versamark and embossed them with white detail embossing powder. I put some vellum on the inside of my luminary windows. The one on the side you see above is embossed with an embossing folder. After I glued everything together I painted the edges with some white acrylic paint. I inserted some LED fairy lights. The stamps I used come from this sets from Rubber Dance  (image is reduced - the stamps are much bigger!) Thanks for stopping by! Susanne

November Colour Challenge Reminder

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Still lots of time to get your hands on lots of lovely rubber in the monthly challenge ! All you need to do is make something using this traditional Christmas colour palette of red, green and gold and, if you like, use a stencil in your creation (optional).  So many of us are making stuff for the festive season right now so no excuses for not entering! Find all the details here. In case you need a little inspiration, here's my latest make using the gorgeous and versatile Pines Fir Yew and Christmas Greetings stamps . Good luck in the challenge everyone! Katy x