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...

Hello lovely Rubber Dancer, it´s Evelyn today! I admit, I am not a Halloween lover, but sometimes I like to make something a bit spooky and dark. So I made a tag in classic Halloween colors with some gold and silver. I used a tag from a packaging, gessoed it and put a generous amount of crackle paint on top. When dry, I painted the surface with orange acrylic paint, added a coat of weathered wood crackle glaze and dryed it. On top of this I painted different acrylic paints (purple, orange, umbra, black, ultramarine blue) and for a little drama with gold acrylic paint. Well, the crackling didn´t work that good this time, but I guess, the reason is, that I was too impatient. Now I stamped on the background in brown and black with the following stamp sets: Grungy boarders Grungy stuff  and Twiggy Leaves and with grey ink  Mix a Sentiment The vocal image, the raven from the stamp set Nesting , I stamped on tissue paper, tore it out and glued it with m...