My last blog post for Rubber Dance with a little different piece of art showing step by step

Hello and welcome, Anita from the Design Team here today.

It is with sorrow in my heart I have to tell you my lovely friends and followers that this is my last and final blogpost for Rubber Dance.
I have been a Design Team member for two years now, and today has my last day arrived. I must admit that I am a little sad, but I hope I will see you around both in blogland and on facebook. Fortunately, I'm not completely out of Rubber Dance. I have been invited to make contributions to the challenge of the month, both the 1st and the 15th of each month from August, so you will see my makes, but I will not have a blogpost.
These two years with Rubber Dance has been an absolutely wonderful time. Bibi, the boss is such an angel, very kind and helpful and supportive, and not to forget the rest of the team, they are such wonderful angels, each and every one of them. Some I have become better acquainted with than others, but I really think that everyone is very unique and amazing artists. I have learned so much and received so much inspiration from all of them all these years. Thank you from my heart ♥

Now, I have to stop crying and hop over to what I came here for today. To show my my latest masterpiece LoL :-)

This is a watercolour collage mix painting,  you can for example hang on your wall for decoration. I will of course frame it in and hang it on my wall, both as a memory but also as a reminder.

I was inspired by all of the beautiful Rubber Dance stamps I have been fortunate enough to receive through two years. As a tribute to Rubber Dance and to Bibi, I wanted to make something special on my last blog post, while showing many of the beautiful stamps and that they can be used in many different ways (not just cards).

It says "Dare to follow your ART". And that is my final sentence to you; Dare to follow you art. With art, life becomes complete and much easier to live. Art is forgiving and soothing.

On this piece I've used a lot of Rubber Dance stamps. Below you will find how I made this step by step:

I started by stamping different stamps on card stock, white, coloured, painted, newsprint, book pages etc.

Then I found a card stock that I've water painted on and sewn around the edge with the sewing machine.

I cut out some of the stamped images, and tore some papers, then glued them down on my watercolour paper with a glue stick

Then I used some white paint and some coloured paint (in the same colour scale as before), and a palet knife to achieve some more colour and bind it all together. I did this step several times throughout the process until I achieved exactly what I wanted.

I stamped some Textured flowers on white card stock and coloured them with Dina Wakley's Scribble sticks and water brush, then I glued them down on my piece with a glue stick.

I stamped these words; dare to and follow your ART on white card stock, cut them out and glued them down.

I also used pencils, Stabilo Aal, white pen and black pen to make some marks on my piece.

Here are some details:

All of the stamps I've used on this project you can find in Rubber Dance online shop.

Thank you so much for following me and for given me so much lovely words and feedback here on the Rubber Dance blog. You can still follow me on my own blog, I do not want to completely disappear :-)

Hugs, Anita
♥
my blog: nitisartfromheart.blogspot.no