Rubber Dance Art Stamps - Blog

  At the moment I rather give a person a little booklet as a gift than a card.  An easy book with all the edges torn along a ruler.  You might guess that the cover has been made with a gelliprint.  I added some stamped script to it, a fussycut bird and a sentiment.  The shell-pieces finish it off, knotted with the thread from binding the pages.  Enjoy crafting!  Ellie Knol  Rubber Dance Stamps: The Rubber Dance Webshop Textured Birds Grungy Swirls Mix A Sentiment 1

Remember this "Art Journaling with Sketchy images and marks" post?  I used the images with the black heat embossing on the journal spread in that post. As I wamted to know what the journal pages were going to look like with white heat embossed images, I also created these inky backgrounds with the flowers on it.  I chose to use the black stamped images for the heart shapes on the art journal spread, so had these lying around. A very beautiful leftover, so to speak..   I decided to use these on cards.  For the base of the heart I created a background. I stamped script with red ink into wet golden modelling paste.  It makes it so shiny and beautiful! A thread around the bottom of the heart finishes it off.  I did the same for this second card, now with another one of the flowers from the Sketchy Flowers Stamp set.  I added a transparant button to which I adhered part of the leftover background (from the golden modelling paste) on the back of it....