Rubber Dance Art Stamps - Blog

Hi, crafty friends!  Mary here with a fun and quick bookmark tutorial for the  Rubber Dance Stamps Design Team, using the Antique Botanicals stamp set.  Since a lot of us are stuck at home during this quarantine, there is probably a lot more reading happening.  Here's a beautiful homemade bookmark to save your spot in your favorite book. Here's the video tutorial: Some close up pics: Here's the stamp set I used: Antique Botanicals I hope you've found some inspiration in this project!  Happy crafting! Mary :) Find me on FB, IG, YT as Motley Mixed Media

Hello, crafty friends!  It's Mary Szymanski here as April's Guest Designer! I'm so glad to be able to show you how I used the awesome  Fish Diet Stamps to make this art journal page super fun! I started with a 5x6 piece of Bristol cardstock that I had scraped white gesso onto and stuck down some scraps of drywall tape to.  I made an easy under the sea background by rolling blue and green acrylic paints over the texture with my brayer.  I added a bit of quinacridone nickel azo gold and yellow along the way. I wanted to add some schools of fish, but didn't want to hand draw them, so I used gray acrylic paint through a 'v' stencil and added little eyeballs for some easy fishies! I used a black paint marker to make the fish stand out a bit from the background. I added some other stenciling to the background with blue acrylic paint for some added texture.  Then I got to work on the fish skeleton.  I stamped the skeleton, extra bones an...