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Hello, nice to see you here at Rubber Dance art stamps! My name is Gabriele from Art-a-tag and I am a mixed media artist from Germany. I am very happy about this month's release AFFIRMATIONS. Thank you Katy and Bibi! That is a stamp set I will use very often. It is perfect for my Art Journaling and my kind of making art. And I love to use text as a design element. I made a little video, to show in which way I use these great stamps. To better explain some material I used, I made some additional photos. The tag had a background I set aside some time ago, because I did not have the right motive for it yet. But "dream" is just it! I just had to emboss the word dream with that yummy creamy pink with glitter, adding some shadow for the 3D effect with pencil and stamp "I want to" - almost done. The butterflies are on washi tape and the embellishments with affirmations are created with shrink film. Just stamp on the foil with permanent ink, cut into...

Hello, how nice to see you here at Rubber Dance art stamps! My name is Gabriele from Art-a-tag and I am a mixed media artist from Germany. Today I want to show you how I use the wonderful Rubber Dance stamps in my projects, like an altered book. I very much like this one, because it has many vintage photographs, which really inspire me. The following video shows a walkthrough to give you an impression of the project. This is my first video, so please be kind with me and forgive the stuttering and "hms" and "ehs" and my searching for words. But I hope you will have some fun with it. You can see how wonderfully Rubber Dance stamps work with mixed media. I can use them with ink or acrylic paint and they blend nicely with the background just the way I like. The following photos show clips of some stamped areas. Mostly I used permanent ink, some are done with acrylic paint. If you need a crisp image, you should stamp on paper and collage the image, like I did...

Hello dear friend of Rubber Dance Art Stamps! My name is Gabriele, I am a mixed media artist from Germany and a proud member of the Rubber Dance Design Team. Nice to see you here. Did it ever happen to you, that your muse left you, when you need her badly? Hm, happens to me every other day. But what to do?? Usually it helps when I stop pondering about what I want to do, get a nice cuppa, get a comfortable seat and browse through some magazines, books, Pinterest - whatever, to get some new ideas. I highly recommend a new book curated by  Dawn DeVries Sokol  - " A World of Artist Journal Pages: 1000+ Artworks - 230 Artists - 30 Countries" This book gives you a great lot of fodder to bring back your muse and if not, you spent a great time with a really big, fat book full of wonderful art journal pages of any style you can think of. I love it! And I am super proud to be part of this fabulous publication! You find me on pages 90 and 91. Also a clip...

Hello, I am glad to see you here at Rubber Dance art stamps! My name is Gabriele from Art-a-tag and I am a mixed media artist from Germany. I mostly work intuitively and don´t really plan ahead. I let the process lead me and often I find interesting figures emerging from my backgrounds, I can work on. This time I made a background with wild scribbles using charcoal, found a colour range I liked, and made many, many marks with a stencil and a lot of Rubber Dance stamps. I am sorry, I got carried away, so the first photo I can present, already shows the silhouette of a cat. You can very well see the background with all marks. I stamp in different colours, to give it more interest. Some marks are hard to see, but they are there. I use the stamps unmounted, so I can bend them and place them easier even on small spots. The cat found a mouse!! I lightened the background surrounding the cat - looks better. I left the body of the cat mostly untouched to show ...

Hi dear friend of Rubber Dance Art Stamps! Nice to see you here. My name is Gabriele, I am a mixed media artist from Germany and a proud member of the Rubber Dance Design Team. Sometimes I create backgrounds, which I like as they are. I don´t want to change them, but they are still backgrounds and need just a little something to be completed. I tried out some colour mixes on the right side to get something near celadon – the lovely colour of traditional Korean pottery. I was just playing and had some watered down black paint which I put on the left side to darken it a little. Then on the left page I tried out some new paints I just bought, yellow and red. I liked the red not being so bright. Then some stenceling with black – the brush was too wet on the left side, well ok. Still no idea. Then I browsed through my stash of old newpapers and found this theater group. They looked like ghosts on the right side and with some arranging to and fro I had my final picture. And I ...

Oh my goodness, time flies by, it is almost spring (well today here it definitely is) and it is already 3 months since Christmas! It is so nice to see you here. My name is Gabriele, I am a mixed media artist from Germany and a proud member of the Rubber Dance Design Team. As a mixed media artist I very often have problems with stamping on collage and acrylic paint as the surface is not even. Working in a journal makes it even more complicated, as the pages bend. When I attach my stamps to an acrylic stamp block, I usually get a scattered image of the stamp. So I would have to either stamp on a piece of paper and collage that or find another solution. Not using an acrylic block helps, as I can follow the uneven background by pressing the stamps down with my fingers. But still, it will not be perfect. Not so perfect images are more an inspiration and a challenge than a disaster for me. In the center of the page you see a partially stamped image of a couple. Instead of coverin...

If you're feeling the love after Valentine's Day yesterday then you might be in the mood to join in with our February Challenge ! The (optional) theme is Love and the colour swatch you need for this month is below - we went for a twist on Valentine's colours adding a pop of bright turquoise with the traditional red. Need some inspiration? Check out these examples from our wonderful DT. By Helen (video tutorial  here ) By Gabriele (step-by-step tutorial here ) Full challenge details are in this post.  Great entries so far - keep them coming! Love from, The Rubber Dance team x

Hello, how nice of you to pay us a visit here at Rubber Dance art stamps! My name is Gabriele from Art-a-tag and I am a mixed media artist from Germany. I love to play in my art journals, as I can experiment and just work for myself without the fear of ruining something. Nice journals are quite costly and so I found a wonderful substitute in old photo albums. They leave room enough for collages and even embellishments. The only problem is: The paper, although quite sturdy, is usually made for dry media, so it curls a bit when it gets wet. But you can use gesso on both sides to take care of the problem. I usually start with a collage of scrips and scraps from my desk. Some newspaper and some very nice brown wrapping paper with music notes and whatever was on hand. Then some white gesso to cover up the black underpaper to pull the collaged pieces together. As the colours for our month's challenge  are blue, brown and red, I started splashing some turquoise on the co...