Rubber Dance Art Stamps - Blog

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 Celes...

Hello, Samantha with you today and I'm sharing with you a pretty item to decorate your home or give as a gift. I used a house shaped piece of MDF as a base but it could also have been square or circular. I bagan by giving the MDF house a couple of coats of white gesso and then stamped the large flower stamp directly on to the gesso. I stamped the butterfly from the Inky Friends stamp set on to white card. I coloured them both using watercolour paints. When the house was coloured I added a crackle glaze, to give shine and detail. I also added some iridescent shimmer to the butterfly wings. To finish I adhered the butterfly body to the house but used foam pads to adhere the wings so they were not flat, adding dimension to. I was going to add some text but couldn't decide which words, so decided not to in the end but it would look great with some words too! Here are the stamps I used; Sketchy Flowers #2 and Inky Friends For lots more inspiration and to join in our monthly challeng...

Hello, Samantha here today and I would like to share with you this home decor, mixed media creation. I think it's nice to have bright colours around the house, particularly when the sun may not be shining, colours can lift your mood and make you smile, my inspiration came from walking in local woods. I began with the blank MDF and the stamps I wanted to use. The wonderful thing about Rubber Dance stamps is that all the different sets work so brilliantly together, so there's endless combinations. After a couple of coats of white gesso I worked out where my focal point would be and added the bright colours, they did seem a little too bright so I added patched of a very thin layer of white gesso, just to knock it back. Then came the fun part of creating the background. I added texture and details with stamps, the text and stars. Coloured the stamped images with watercolour paints, adhered them in place and finished by adding some inky splats masking off the focal point for maximum...

Hello Rubber Dance Friends,  It's me, Priss BlaFu ( @ARTful.Layers ) , and today I'm showing you this decorative signboard for your craft room or wherever you want to hang it.  For this project, I was inspired by April's mood board. Did you see it? Is gorgeous. Seeing the photo of the umbrella in the spring rains made me think of mushrooms. That's why I ran to get my set of  Textured Mushrooms  and started stamping them. You can find other inspirations with this stamp set here  and here . To make my sign I used a piece of cold-pressed watercolor paper and glued it onto a piece of cardboard to give it more support. Then I made a texture on my paper similar to a worn and slightly oxidized surface, for which I used my pastes with iron and liquids to oxidize it. I also irregularly stamped here and there some of my favorites stamps of the  Mixed Media Marks 3  set.   For the mushrooms, I previously painted a yupo paper with pink and yellow alcohol inks...

Hello, Samantha here today and I'd like to share with you my tutorial showing how I made this ocean inspired home decor project. I began with an MDF fish shape, to begin with I was going to have my fish pointing upwards. I used just two stamp sets, the new AHOY set and a firm favourite of mine, Celestial. I gave the fish a couple of coats of white gesso and stamped my chosen images on white card. Then the fish changed direction as I was laying out the images. Using acrylic paints I painted the fish, I used the hanging hole as placement for his eye and simply cut out a circle of white card and adhered in place. Using a Crop-A-Dile I added two new hanging holes. I wanted to keep the stamped images white but added a little shading to the moon and clouds and a pop of red on the boat as red, white and blue are nautical colours. To finish I added some twine for hanging and some holographic flake paste to sea to make it glisten in the moon light. I do hope you like it, thank you for looki...