Rubber Dance Art Stamps - Blog

Hello, Samantha here today and I'd like to share a little project I made for Hallowe'en. It's raining here today so the light was not great for taking photos but I think it makes it look even more spooky. I used two fun stamp sets, Little Witch and What A Girl Wants. I began by stamping out my chosen stamps and I then coloured them using watercolours. I used some MDF from my stash. I created the background using distress inks and sprays and also a stencil. I stamped some stars and created the moon using a Tim Holtz mask/stencil set. I added textured paste to the spider to give him texture. I finished by adding some inky splats, some pumpkin ornaments and some white highlights with a Posca pen. Here are the stamp sets I used; What a Girl Wants and Little Witch  I do hope you like it, for lots more fun and inspiration you can join the Rubber Dance Stamping Lounge on Facebook, right here . Thanks so much for looking, wishing you a lovely day, Sam :)

Hello, Samantha here today and I'm delighted to be sharing another page that's ready for my art journal. As it is October I thought I would try and do something a little spooky and this owl is just perfect. I wanted to use non traditional spooky colours but couldn't get away from the colour purple as I recently found my first purple mushrooms - Amethyst Deceivers - whilst walking, so you can see my inspiration. I created the background using a couple of stencils, acrylic paints and inky, shiny splats. Then simply stamped the owl, trees and mushrooms on to white card and coloured with watercolours. I love the look on his face.  These are the wonderful stamp sets I used: Carved Whimsy Wood and Carved Fox & Owl  I do hope you like my page, for more inspiration you can join the Rubber Dance Stamping Lounge on Facebook, right here . Wishing you a lovely day, Sam :)

Hello, Samantha with you today and I'm sharing another page for my ever growing art journal. This page for me was lovely to create and I was trying to capture the last of the summer flowers whilst autumn fungi start to appear, it's my favourite time of year. Your eyes are not deceiving you, my page is a little wonky! But it was easy to make, here's how: For the colourful, central piece I created the background using stamps from the Pencil Marks #5 stamp set and distress inks. I prepared the journal page by simply stamping in grey ink some of the wonderful I Love Leaves stamps in just two corners as shown. The flowers, poppy heads, leaves and mushroom were stamped on white card and coloured using water colour paints and coloured pencils. To finish I added some black enamel accents and some white highlights with a Posca pen. I do hope you like it, here are the stamps I used: Pencil Marks #4 Pencil Marks #5 Textured Mushrooms I Love Leaves  Thank you so much for looking, for m...

Hello, Samantha here today and I'm sharing another page ready for my art journal.  My page is 7.5 x 7.5 inches and I just love that the Butterfly Girl is such a statement image, standing there reaching for those stars, she is sure to get there! It was an easy page to create, the background is simply distress inks, Faded Jeans and Hickory Smoke, I used the Mixed Media Marks #3 stamp set to stamp some background detail and some stencils to create the dotty silver sparkle with paint and white heat embossing powder for the stars. Finishing touches were the text from Mix a Sentiment #1 and some highlights with a white Posca pen and some black inky splats. Here are the stamps I used; Butterfly Girl 2  Mixed Media Marks 3 Mix a Sentiment 1 I do hope you like my page and thank you for looking. For lots more inspiration you can join the fun on Facebook in the Rubber Dance Stamping Lounge, right here . Wishing you a lovely day, Sam :)  

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 a postcard I made, I love making, sending and swapping postcards. Being approximately 4inches by 6 inches in size they're perfect for clean and simple designs or more layered and detailed. I created the background using distress inks, spritzed with water and just wiping the card in the diluted inks, I then added some interest using the Vintage Postcard stamp and a stamp from Pencil Marks 3 for the leaves. The flowers, bee and text, from Inky Friends and Flowers Gone Wild, were all stamped on white card, coloured using watercolours and Prismacolour pencils, cut out and adhered in place. To finish I added some inky splats and some iridescent liquid to the wings. Here are the stamps I used; Inky Friends Flowers Gone Wild Pencil Marks 3 Vintage Postcard I do hope you like my postcard, for lots more inspiration you can find us on Facebook - Rubber Dance Stamping Lounge right here .  Wishing you a lovely day, Sam :)  

Hello, Samantha here today and I'm sharing another page ready for my art journal. It was really an experiment, I wanted to find out how embossing powder would look on the edges of torn card and I really liked the textured finish. The fish were originally going to be all the colours I could find but in the end they looked better all the same colour combination. Sometimes things don't go as we plan in our heads. I created the background using diluted distress inks and swishing the card in the inks. Using the Carved Collection #3 stamp set I added some background details. I then added gold embossing powder all along the edge. To create some bubbles I used some glittery embossing powder. This adds a really lovely shimmer and the silver glitter adds lovely contrast to the gold edges. I remember reading somewhere that gold and silver shouldn't be used together but I quite like it. I then stamped and coloured the fish I needed from the Textured Fishes stamp set. I used watercolour...