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Hello Rubber Dance friends. Gail here today.  Welcome to the spooktacular month of October!    First I'd like to say a sad farewell to Katka who is leaving the team.  I am sure you will join me in wishing her all the best for the future.  Thanks for all the awesome inspiration you have shared with us Kate .  I am sure we will see you around.  Take care.   So here we go.  Another colourful and inspirational month here on the Rubber Dance blog. The first day of the month so we have a new moodboard.  You can be inspired by anything on the moodboard; one or more colours, things, shapes, memories it inspires, things it makes you feel, etc. etc..  It's basically anything goes, but in case you need a little help to get started Dunja has put together this awesome inspiration for you. Here's the wonderful October Moodboard   If you are creating anything with Rubber Dance stamps this month, whatever your inspirati...

Hello Rubber Dance friends.  Gail here.  Today it was too sunny to be indoors so I grabbed some stamps, card and inks and set myself in a shaded corner of the garden.  I knew I wanted to use the lovely elephant from African Animals and I had an idea to add a little extra texture to him with one of the Mixed Media Marks stamps.  I think it turned out quite nicely. I made things easy by stamping the elephant on a separate piece of card and fussy cutting it.  I do like those additional circles!  I selected some of my brightest distress inks and used Mixed Media Marks and the rainbow from Pencil Marks 3 for the background, just randomly stamping with various colours until I thought it looked pretty.  The border is from the Mixed Media Borders set.  Elephants are so majestic and I always think they look like they are doing some serious thinking.  Except baby elephants!  They seem to enjoy looking mischievous.  The sentiment ...

 Hello everyone, It is the month of LOVE. So today I'm sharing an unlikely love story with you using Crazy Monsters and Inky Flowers. Love is in the air and there is beauty everywhere. Even among monsters! After all ... doesn't everyone deserve to be loved? I made a mask by folding a piece of copy paper in half and drawing half a heart along the folded edge and then cutting it out. When you open it you have the whole heart. This was placed on my gel plate and then some paint was rolled out. You'll need to carefully remove the mask before pulling a print. The pulled print was grungy which is what I wanted. I replaced the mask and added some DI around the edge so that the heart popped a little more. With the mask still in place I stamped the love word from Just A Note and added a heart into the white space. The monsters need all the love they can get, so I've added extra hearts from Just A Note and white embossed them. And here are the two lovers. The slug I decided to m...

                                                                        Hi everyone,    Today it's my turn to show you a little tutorial, making these clean and simple cards with the new stamps. They are amazing, so beautiful!!    I used Pencil Marks #5 Carved Collection #4 Just A Note I stamped the background with the little stamps from Carved Collection #4. You can see it below. I made a passepartout and glued the background behind. I stamped the flowers and leave in black ink. On a few leftovers I stamped the sentiments and cut them out. There you are, in a very simple way you've two beautiful cards.  The stamp...

  Hi everyone,    Mariken here, and today it's all about tags and making a present. This time I've used  Mixed Media Marks , Things with Wings , Just a note and Round in Circles. I started making a background with acrylic paint and my gelliplate. Put some drops on the gelliplate.   With my fingers I made little dots on the plate and made a print.  Just a thin layer with acrylic paint and I've made a second print, a ghost print.   That's the one I love most!  Now it's time to make some tags, or circles... ... and add some marks with white embossing powder.   On a white paper I made a sheet full of colors with blendable inks or Distress inks.   Then I stamped the Things with Wings on this paper and cut them out. I've made my own wrappingpaper with tissuepaper and some stamps.  It corresponds with the tags so beautiful. I made some marks w...

Hello Rubber Dance friends.  Gail here today.  I hope you are all keeping well, but for those of you feeling under the weather I have made a get well card with the lovely Grungy Butterfly and a quick and easy foil embossed background.   I searched the scraps bin and found this piece of watercolour paper that had some green and orange splats on it.  That gave me my colour scheme.  I stamped the largest Grungy Butterfly and fussy cut. I used a slightly textured cream base card and smeared the edges with Cracked Pistachio and Rusty Hinge distress inks. I embossed a piece of gold foil with a floral embossing folder and edged with black StazOn ink. Put it all together and add a sentiment from the Just a Note (norwegian words) on a left over scrap of the same paper I used for the butterfly.  I says get well soon. Hope you have enjoyed my project today.  Remeber to link up your makes using Rubber Dance stamp...