Rubber Dance Art Stamps - Blog

Hello, dear friends of Rubber Dance art stamps. My name is Gabriele from Art-a-tag and I am a mixed media artist from Germany. This time I would like to show you how easy it is using stamps to create interesting structures.  To demonstrate this workaround I am using low cost manila tags, the darker kind. With a palette knife or plastic card I apply a fairly thick coat of thick white paint. Don´t be too tidy and leave small areas uncovered to add some interest. I took a primer, used for base coating canvases, but you can also use wall paint or acrylic paint. Important is the heavy body. Now you press your stamp (here a border from Celestial Sheet) into the wet paint to leave the image of the stamp. You need to press quite hard to get a decent print. Now you have time to get a cup of tea or coffee, because your work has to dry. It takes some time as the coat is fairly thick. In the next step I made some dots with light turquoise acrylic paint using...

Hello everyone! Bibi here with a delicious project using the set of Herb stamps from Rubber Dance and polymer clay. I love cooking with home grown herbs! I live in the city and have no garden, but I make the best out of the space available. My herb "garden" is an old zinc tub, and here's how it looks with the stamped polymer clay signs I made: The marigold flower is to keep flies and bugs away. The zebra is to keep lions away. (Yes, it works - I've never seen a lion in my herb garden!) I stamped the herb ovals on white polymer clay, using brown ink (Archival Coffee). I didn't know whether Distress ink would work, so I stamped one to find out, and what do you know - it turned out great and won't smear or run after baking. How cool is that? (It means I can use all my 30+ Distress colors for other polymer projects, too! Yoohoo!! I bet other brands of dye ink would work just as well!) Instead of using a knife to cut around the ovals, I ...