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Hi everyone! Susanne writing today. I'm sharing a birthday card  with a special background. I used Distress Oxide Inks on photopaper. Before inking up the paper I stamped the Rubber Dance Bold and Beautiful Flowers with Versamark Ink. The ink acts as an resist against the Oxides and creates this nice flower background. I applied the Oxides onto my glass plate, spritzed them with water and dipped in the paper. I dried each layer of colour before I added the next one. After the background is dry you must "clean" it with a babywipe to get these bright colours. I stamped the sentiment from the Rubber Dance Happy Birthday set. The cool cupcake is a die from STAMPlorations. Thanks for stopping by today! xx Susanne. Supplies: Rubber Dance Stamps: Others: STAMPlorations Cupcake Builder Distress Oxide Inks Photopaper Design Paper Gold Archival Ink VersaMark Ink

Hi my dear crafty friends! Susanne here and I have to share a art journaling video with you today. I used the bigger butterfly from our Antique Botanicals set as my focal point. To create texture and interest on the background I used the Pick A Number and Art Defined sets. Enjoy the video! Here are some close ups: Thank you so much for stopping by today! xx Susanne Supplies: Rubber Dance Stamps: Others: Inktense Blocks Brushos Texture Paste Flower Stencils from Stencil Girl Archival Ink Gesso Aqua Ground Twinklings H2O Tim Holtz Mixed Media Die

Hi my dear crafty friends! Susanne writing today and I'd like to share my recent projects of the 24 Days of Mixed Media Advent Calendar on my YouTube channel. These are Day 18 to 23. You will find a full tutorial for each project here: 24 Days of Christmas Artist Trading Card with watercolors and one of our Textured Houses Christmas Card with non-traditional colours and our Whimsical Winter set  Art Journal Page with  the Carved Whimsy Wood Tree and Mail Art Spring inspired project with our wonderful Birdies , Own Wings , Gather Together and Hummingbird Birthday Card with the Artist Plate Mixed Media tag with our  Collage Elements and Textured Flowers  Thank you so much for stopping by today! My teamies and I wish you a MERRY CHRISTMAS Don't forget that we have 10% off with the code WEAREBACK until Dec. 26th! We are also searching for passionate stampers  to add to o...

Hi everyone, are you ready for Christmas yet? I think my shopping is done ... I think. My mum's birthday is on Boxing Day ... so my thoughts are turning to her. It's a great time because we just keep on celebrating for days lol. This month at Rubber Dance we have a colour challenge using grey, pink and teal.  Or the theme of Embossing. You will find the challenge over on our facebook group . Today I've a tutorial for you using Distress Inks and Oxides.  Curious Cat has come out to play and I hope you see how easy a little bit of stamping can be. Here we go ... Step 1: Blend Distress Oxides onto your card.  It doesn't need to be perfect. We'll be adding more to the background so it will be well hidden. The oxides have a beautiful softness to them which looks great on white card. Step 2:  My teal colour in the inks came from Evergreen Bough. I've twisted a little onto my craft sheet, beaded up with a little water, and dabbed onto b...

​ Hello, lovely people! This is Susanne, with some great news! If you are following our blog you may already know that Bibi (the owner of Rubber Dance) has decided to retire. This was a very bad news :-( ! The good news is that Rubber Dance is moving to Germany, because I am talking over! (guess how excited I am!!!) THE GREAT NEWS IS, we are running a Design Team Call!!! We are looking for passionate stampers to join our Design Team Do you love stamping? Do you love creating cards, tags, art journal pages or mixed media projects? Would you love to use our stamps in your work? Would you like to have your work featured on our Blog, Instagram and Facebook Page? If yes, please read on ... Design Team Details: Term: 6 months, starting March 1st. Create 3 projects a month, consisting of one challenge inspiration make, one themed post (1 project, 2-3 photos, information about the process), and one tutorial for our blog (Video creators are very welcome). Join the...

Hi my dear crafty friends!!! Susanne here and I am very happy to announce that the Rubber Dance web shop is back online!!!  To celebrate this I have a 10% discount code for you to the new store. It is valid until December 26!!! If you have any questions don't hesitate and send me an email at: susanne (@) rubberdance.de THANK YOU so much for your patience! I am looking forward to this wonderful new adventure. GUESS WHAT? There will be a DT Call soon, so stay tuned!

Hi everyone! I am back with a new video tutorial. I am running a big Rubber Dance Stamp giveaway at the moment over on my YouTube channel. As long as our store is closed (I am positive to reopen already in December), this is a chance to for you to get yourself some new stamps :-D. We have also retailers all over the world that are stocking our stamps, so maybe you'd like to have a look over there so far. Here is my project for day 13 of my mixed media advent calendar. Here is a direct link to the whole playlist over on my YouTube channel: 24 Days of Christmas My project for today is a vintage artist trading coin using the Antique Botanicals stamp set together with a label from the Vintage Ads. Enjoy watching the video: Thanks for stopping by today! xx Susanne. Supplies: Rubber Dance Stamps: Antique Botanicals Vintage Ads Others: Neocolor Crayons Washi tape Archival Ink Distress Oxide Inks

Hi everyone! Susanne here! If you are following me on YouTube you know that I am running a big stamp giveaway at the moment. It contains three big sets from Rubber Dance! I also offer daily mixed media video tutorial as kind of an Advent Calendar! Today I'd like to share the projects where I've used our stamps! The grafic is linking directly to the playlist: I used our mixed media stamps on these projects to add texture to the background: I used the cool Christmas Tree from the Four Seasons stamp set  on this artist trading card  Istn't this fish the coolest ever! Love him. He comes with the Fish, Swim, Love stamp set.  I used some of the stamps from the A little Birdie stamp set on this artist trading card. Our store is temporary closed, because Rubber Dance is moving to Germany. We will reopen as soon as possible! Check out our retailers . Our stamps are stocked all over the world:

Hi there! Susanne writing today and I am sure you can imagine how excited I am about Rubber Dance moving to Germany, moving into our home!!! I am so proud and happy that Bibi asked me if I'd like to take over her company! Without Rubber Dance I'd have never become such a passionate stamper! I have been designing for Bibi since 2014. It is the best team I've ever been on! I am working very hard at the moment to get everything ready in the new web shop! I hope I am able to reopen by the end of next week! Until then have a look at our retailers page: http://rubberdance.blogspot.com/p/retailers.html For today I have two altered playing cards to share with you. I used our Carved Whimsy Wood stamps set. I used watercolours for the background and oil pastels for a more mixed media look. I also have a video for you! Enjoy! Thank you for watching today! xx Susanne Supplies: Rubber Dance Stamps: Carved Whimsy Wood Old Book Page Others: Mijello Mission Go...

Hello Rubber Dance Fans.  December is turning into an exciting month here at Rubber Dance! If you haven't heard the momentous news you need to scroll down to the next post.  In short, Bibi is retiring and Susanne is taking over Rubber Dance which will be moving to Germany!!  Exciting times.   Susanne is hoping to get the shop up and running again as soon as possible but while we wait the fun continues with a few posts from the team here on the blog and also in the facebook group .  We also have the December Challenge on the facebook group and the Forever Challenge here on the blog, so two places to share your stamped makes using Rubber Dance stamps.  We had already planned to have a relaxing December and the team and hopefully the shop will be back again in the New Year on our usual schedule.   Hop over to the facebook group to join the fun.  You can use the colours and/or the theme of embossing and don't forget the Rubbe...

Dear friends and fans of Rubber Dance, It's Bibi here (the stamp maker and owner of Rubber Dance) to share some good news and bad news. The bad news is that I have so many health issues that I am no longer able to run this stamp company, but the good news is that my very dear friend Susanne Rose in Germany is taking over! Susanne has been with me since the very beginning of Rubber Dance, first as a monthly Guest Designer before joining the regular Design Team. She has also designed many of the Rubber Dance stamps, such as the bestseller sheet 'Textured Flowers, and the very adorable 'Playful Penguins' and 'Whale Wishes'. Susanne has been my DT & Social Media Manager for the past two years, so my stepping down and passing the torch over to Susanne won't change much, everything will continue like before - just better! Even if it has been difficult for me to come to the realisation that I can no longer run this stamp company, knowing that Susanne ...

Hi everyone, It's Donna here today with a very Wintery Christmas card for you all as I decided that I really must get started on making them!! I made the background by masking off a circle for the moon on some thick card and then blending a mixture of purple and blue Distress Inks to create a snowy looking sky. I used the middle sized snowflake stamp from the Whimsical Winter set to add to the background and used the tree from Carved Whimsy Wood to frame the edges of the scene. I tore some white paper to replicate the look of newly fallen snow and added that to the background. The ultra cute log cabin from Whimsical Winter was stamped onto a piece of Strathmore Mixed Media paper and coloured in with Zig Clean Colour pens as I find they blend really well together on this surface. I adhered the cabin to the background with foam pads for some extra dimension. The finishing touches were to add a Tom Holtz metallic sentiment and some lovely glittery Stickles for the snow...

It is Simplicity Sunday over on the Rubber Dance blog . Today it's my turn for a little inspiration. The stamps used are all from Dancing Star. The background in the center panel is from some left-over scraps when playing with Distress Oxides. We all have a little stash of left-overs don't we? They come in handy sometimes. The background took a little working out on some scrap paper. But the swirls and background fit beautifully when you stamp twice down on one side, once across the top and once across the bottom, and then twice down the other side. I then trimmed the card and coloured in the stars and swirls. The words are from the same set too. I had to add 're to the word you so that it reads correctly. Stamps played with are from: Dancing Star Other Products Used: Distress Oxides Jane Davenport markers Thank you so much for stopping by today. Happy Stamping! Dot x

Hi there! I have a Christmas card to share with you today and also a new stamping technique. I used the holly leaves from the Cozy Christmas stamp set and inked them up with watercolor brush pens.   I used a stamping tool, because I stamped every image twice. Once to create that watercolor effect and once to get the details. Check out my video to see how this works. I am looking forward to trying this technique with other stamps, too. I'm sure it will turn out really nice. Especially for greeting cards. Thank you so much for stopping by today xx Susanne Due to illnes, our store is temporary closed.  Please check out our retailers page: http://rubberdance.blogspot.com/p/retailers.html Supplies: Rubber Dance Stamps: Cozy Christmas Happy Christmas Others: Arteza Real Brush Pens Gold Embossing Powder