Fungi Fun by Samantha Read

Hello, Samantha here today and I'm sharing a home decoration hanging I made inspired by walks looking for mushrooms. I love bright colours, did you know that mushrooms come in all colours of the rainbow?


This project was an absolute joy to create, all the layers made it lots of fun, it's also great fun to mix and match lots of different Rubber Dance stamp sets if you have them as they all work so very well together, here's how I did it.....


I began with a round piece of board measuring with a diameter of 8 inches, I die cut some circles from an old book I'm recycling and adhered them in place.


Using lots of brightly coloured acrylic paints and just one grey neutral, I quite randomly covered the whole area of the board.


The colours were very bright indeed and to help the details pop off the background I added some white gesso, just in some places and very thinly.


Using the Celestial and Sketchy Leaves stamp sets, I heat embossed some background details.


Again using Celestial for the sun and moon image and the Textured Mushroom stamp set I stamped all the images I needed on to white card and coloured using watercolour paints.


It took quite a while for me to decide the layout, when I was happy I adhered everything in place and finished the background with Vintage Postcard for the text and then I added some inky black splats.


Final finishing touches were highlights made with a glitter pen and a white Posca pen and a ribbon with colourful beads for hanging.


Here's all the stamps I used:

Textured Mushrooms

Celestial

Sketchy Leaves

Mixed Media Marks #3

Vintage Postcard

 Thank you so much for looking, for more inspiration you can find Rubber Dance Stamps on Facebook, right here.

Wishing you a lovely day, Sam :)

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

New Stamps Release Sale!

Image
Hello everyone! Bibi here today to share our brand new stamps with you! :-) We have a new designer with us this time! Melina Dahl from Sweden, who is also on our Creative Team, has designed these two awesome zentangle stamps (click on images for bigger photos):   Owl Do Good Zentangle Heart Some samples we've made:  Awesome, right? But wait - there is more: Susanne has designed another beautiful sheet of stamps in her Textured Stamps series, Textured Spring  (images are reduced).      That's all we have had time to make so far,  but I think we've managed to show you how fabulous these stamps are! :-) If you would like to order any of these stamps,  use this coupon code to get 15 % off your order:  Spring15 This one-time offer is good only till Sunday, March 12th. You will find the new stamps here: Owl Do Good Zentangle Heart Textured Spring We hope you like them!
Read more

Happiness is a state of mind - Art Journal Page

Image
Hello Everyone, Shilpa from the Design Team here. I am sharing with you a journal spread, for which I've used Rubber Dance Nostalgic Couples , Something Wonderful and few other stamp sets. Here's my procedure... To make the texture on the journal page, first I cut out this piece using a die. I adhered that die cut pieces on pages and applied embossing paste through stencil.  Let it dry completely.   To bring colours to the page I spritzed randomly with  Peacock Feather, Wilted Violet, Faded Jeans and Vintage Photo distress inks. To create one more layer I stamped circles and text on the page. In addition I applied colours from distress crayons to create depth. I stamped the Nostalgic Couple on another paper with black archival ink and coloured it with distress markers.   I adhered a few embellishments and ephemera and layered the lovely couple image onto it. On the other page, I added words fro
Read more

Back from The Netherlands

Image
Hello everyone! It's Bibi here today, typing to you from my new keyboard .... Isn't that speck-tacular?  But what does my "new" keyboard have to do with my trip to The Netherlands? Keep reading and you'll soon find out ... As our regular blog readers will know, I spent a week in The Netherlands earlier this month. The main reason I went there was so I could go to the ARTSpecially stamp show in Nijkerk to meet my Dutch retailer - Marian, who owns Hobbycompleet de Duif . But before that, my sweetheart and I spent some days in Amsterdam, one of my fave places in the world! The huge "I amsterdam" letters on the plaza behind Rijksmuseum (National Gallery). Any toursist with respect for herself will take 100's of photos of those letters.... It was colder in April than I had expected, and the spring was indeed late this year.   Even so, the famous Tulip Festival was on. Here I am by the pond (still at the Rijksmuseum plaza) where tho
Read more

I Wish I Could Art Journal - by Bibi

Image
Hey everyone! I'm not sure whether what I've made for today can be called an art journal page or altered canvas, because it's really neither .. It's not a page in a journal and the "canvas" is a piece of cardboard, so... maybe it's a hybrid of sorts. No matter what it's called, here it is! And this is what it looks like with the guitar flap open: The reason why I made this .. "whatever it's called" .... is that I've had this bundle of guitar string-looking wire lying on the floor in my studio for some time. Yes, on the floor! (If you thought I'm a very neat and tidy person, I'm sorry to burst the illusion). I've no idea where that wire bundle came from, and I'm not sure why I hadn't bothered to pick it up... but I've looked down on it from time to time, thinking I could probably use it for something, some fine day... .... and then, a few weeks ago a friend of mine was visiting, he pic
Read more