Rubber Dance Art Stamps - Blog

Hello.  Welcome.  Gail from the design team here today with some colour inspiration for the Rubber Dance challenge.  This month we are all red, white and blue with the optional theme of Frosty Winter.  I decided to forgo the theme and bring out the absolutely gorgeous Rascal Rooster .  If you aren't familiar with this stamp, you should be!!  Did I mention how gorgeous he is?? I actually thought this was going to be a tag, but he out grew it!  I stamped and embossed Rascal Rooster with black embossing powder.  Then I coloured him with Festive Berries, Stormy Sky and Fossilised Amber distress inks using my waterbrush.  For the background I masked the rooster and stamped the large and small hearts from Arty Hearty using the Festive Berries ink.  The sentiment is from Beautiful Words .  Then I masked the heart as well and stamped the large spiral from Round in Circles with the Stormy Sky ink.  I used the spira...

Happy Easter, everyone! It's Bibi here with a couple of projects that have very little in common ... I don't know if this ever happens to you: You have a plan in your mind of what you're going to make, and all is fine and hunky-dory until something or the other   happens along the way and you end up making a completely different thingamabob instead. Sound familiar?  My plan was to alter a plain paint brush ... Little did I know that the first step would take me on a detour ..... I wanted to colour the metal plate with alcohol inks,  so I masked off the sides (wood and brush part) with some regular clear tape .... .... started to add the ink...., then THIS caught my attention! Whuuut?  Look - something pretty emerged on the tape! I really liked how the alcohol inks looked on the clear tape.  With an attention span like mine, you know I had to experiment some more right away ...  Set that paint bru...