Rubber Dance Art Stamps - Blog

Hello, Samantha here today and I'm sharing another page that's ready for my art journal. I shall probably use this page in the autumn when I go out on a mushroom hunt, I just wish I had a funky pink car like this one!  This was a lovely, fun page to make, isn't it magic to take plain white and make something so colourful? Here's how I began, by stamping the wonderful Rubber Dance stamps on to white card. I then made the background using three colours of acrylic paint and some brown spray, keeping everything very random so it has an organic feel to it. To complete the background and get my placing right I stamped directly on to the background. Then came adding colour to the stamped mushrooms and car. I used watercolours and coloured pencils. To finish I added highlights and details with Posca pens, some glitter on the road to make it magical and glossy accents to the shiny bits of the car and adhered it using foam pads so the shadow is natural and it really looks like it...

  Hello Rubber Dance friends.  Happy July!!   Gail here today with some lovely inspiration from the team to get the month off to a flying start. If you need a little help to get the creative juices flowing 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 July Moodboard If you are creating anything with Rubber Dance stamps this month, whatever your inspiration, please share in our FB fan group cos someone is going to win €10 to spend in the Rubber Dance store !   Don't forget.... You gotta be in it to win it! Now here's some inspiration from the team to get us started....     Kate used What a Girl Wants   Mariken us ed Sketchy Flowers #3 ...

Hello, Samantha here today :) Once the festive time is over and the new year has begun I find myself very much looking forward to Spring with warmth and flowers. I have already seen my first Snowdrops on 31 December so Spring really is just around the corner! Today I'm sharing a page I made for my art journal, (there are no words, the journaling is later for me). It measure 8 inches by 8 inches and is full of texture and brightness and hopefully it will brighten your day as it did mine while I created it. I used four wonderful Rubber Dance Stamp sets for my journal page; Textured Birds for the main character. Weed Love for background detail. Loose Florals #1 for the smaller flowers and Sketchy Flowers #3 for the big flower blooms. Here's my tutorial: If like me you sometimes find a blank page a little daunting, I nearly always start a project by adding background colour, for this page I used acrylic paints then applied white gesso through a stencil as those colours were very br...

  Hello Rubber Dance friends.   Gail here today with more autumnal inspiration from the team! The moodboard is full with warm autumn tones and images.  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 fabulous October Moodboard   If you are creating anything with Rubber Dance stamps this month, whatever your inspiration, please share in our FB fan group . Now here's some inspiration from the team to keep us creative....       Farida used L ittle Witch and Lace Doilies       Toni used L ittle Witch and Mixed Media Marks       Veronica used Sketchy Flowers #3 , Mixed Media Marks ,  Round in Circles and Mix a Sentiment 2       Du...

Hello, Samantha with you today and I'm sharing a page I created for my art journal.  Autumn is my favourite time of year and I wanted to to make an autumnal page but not necessarily using autumn colours, I wanted bright colours to be a celebration. September sees and hears the return of robins to my garden, they greet me each morning singing their beautiful song, the moon always seems to look better at this time of year and I love to go mushroom hunting and there are still some lovely flowers to be found.  I remove my pages from my journal before decorating and will then rebound later when they are all complete, so the writing will be added later, so at the moment I have a lot of art journal pages with no journaling, lol. I began by adding lovely bright colours for my background. I always panic when I do this as they are very bright and I wonder how it comes together! Then using a stencil and white gesso everything becomes a little calmer. Don't worry if your page bends when w...