Rubber Dance Art Stamps - Blog

 Hi arty friends, Angie here with a card for you. I started by gathering my materials - my stamps, some old scrapbook paper, some black and white card for matting and a blank greetings card. First I cut everything to size. I stamped some of the images onto scrapbook paper and also on white card. I cut out the images, glued some of the white ones onto the scrapbook paper as the focal image and some of the coloured ones around the edges of the white piece of card. I matted both of these onto pieces of black card just a fraction bigger to give some definition and make sure all the patterns don’t just merge into one. I glued everything together and onto the card, leaving a gap at the bottom for the word stamp. Until next time! Hugs from Angie x Stamps used: Sketchy flowers 3

 Hello arty friends, Angie here with a watercolour card for you. I started by stamping the flower image on a piece of watercolour paper, then coloured it in with my watercolours. I added a little bit of shading using distress crayons, water-soluble pencils and a water brush. Next I used my go-to background stamp - the journal word stamp - to white-emboss on a piece of tracing paper, which I tore into a strip about 10cm wide and mounted it onto a piece of lilac card (I added some gold splatter here). I then glued this to the blank card. I cut out my flower image and adhere it to the card (this also hides the adhesive on the tracing paper) and added a quote from the "You Rock" set. I really hope you like it, what are you creating this week? Until next time, hugs from Angie x Stamps used: Sketchy Flowers #2 You Rock Journal Words    

 Hello arty friends, Angie here! I'm always trying to think of alternative ways of wrapping present and trying to avoid materials that can't be recycled, so this time I have been making small gift pouches using book pages, but you could use other papers from your stash. There are a lot of tutorials on the Internet for folding little pouches, and whilst I'm not going into a detailed description here I hope the photos give you an idea of what to do, it really is very simple. I've used double sided scrapbook paper so you can see which way I'm folding, and washi tape so you can see where to glue, but I used double sided tape on the actual pouches. I hope I'm making sense!  After making my book page pouches I used the doilie stamps to emboss white and metallic on black paper,  then stamped in shades of blue/turquoise on white paper.  I cut out the Doilies then arranged them on the pouches. I tried to arrange some of the so that the Doilies would line up on the closed...