Rubber Dance Art Stamps - Blog

Hello Rubber Dance friends.  Gail here today.  I'm looking forward to spring and decided to make a card with birds.   Rubber Dance have quite a lot of bird themed stamps so I decided to try and collage a few together.  The stamping and masking was quite a fun and relaxing exercise.  Here's my finished card. I got a bit lost in the process so I didn't take lots of pictures, but I'll try and explain my order of stamping.  I started by stamping one of the Sketchy Birds with black archival ink .  I gave him a watercolour wash with Picked Raspberry distress oxide and masked it.  Then, using Sky Blue archival ink I stamped and masked Large Postoid , Vintage Aviary , Feathered Friends and the pebbles from Mixed Media Marks #3 , in that order.  Then I unmasked everything except the pebbles and the pink bird and stamped the silhouette bird from Nesting . I stamped Love and the hearts with red archival ink and then the sentiment with Night Sk...

Hi everyone! It's Susanne here today and I'd like to share my newest Easter home decor with you. I was so inspired by the tiny houses from the Tim Holtz newest collection with Sizzix, that I designed my own houses in my Silhouette studio. I love this neutral look for my easter home decor. I cut the shapes from craft cardstock, added some old book paper with Gel Medium and covered everything with gesso. In my next step I used stamps from the Gather Together , Birdies , Antique Botanicals and Feathered Friends sets together with Archival Ink Jet Black and Coffee. I added some earthy colour tones with Martha Steward acrylic craft paint and DecoArt Media Fluid Acrylics. Of course I wanted to have a little bit of three dimensional texture, too. So I picked the DecoArt Media Crackle paste and add a some of it here and there with different stencils. You can achieve an amazing effect with the DecoArt Media Antiquing Cream. Add it all over the textured area...