Rubber Dance Art Stamps - Blog

Hello, Samantha here today and I'd like to share with you a decorative hanging I made using lolly sticks, I've been using lolly sticks for years now and they are a really good substrate to use because you can through any medium at them and they cope incredibly well. For this project I used large lolly sticks if you can't find any you could use tongue depressors. Simply glue a piece of strong card to the back to keep them together and use a crop-a-dile to make holes for hanging. Stamp your images and you're ready to go. I always begin by adding a coat of white gesso, for this project I then used a stencil and texture paste to add the lovely snowflakes, then another layer of gesso. I used paint to colour the background, adding gesso in places and some splats of walnut ink just to dampen down the bright colours and add another layer of interest. I coloured my stamped images from Textured Birds and Textured Christmas Green using watercolours and glued them in place. Then ca...

Hello, Samantha here today and I'm delighted to share with you a very pretty project to celebrate the new, beautiful Inky Friends stamps set and I hope you enjoy my little tutorial. (I love using lolly sticks but if you can't find any of these larger size you may find them on Amazon as tongue depressors). To make you lolly stick surface, use something with a corner to make sure they are lined up straight and then fix together by gluing some card on the reverse ensuring that all lolly sticks are adhered. To add texture I applied some texture paste through a stencil. I then prepared the surface using some white gesso. Now the fun colourful part can begin, lay down your base colours, I tend to stick to just three colours to make things easier to coordinate. I used a stencil and white gesso to add another layer to the background. I then stamped Weed Love and some small flowers and larger flowers and coloured using watercolours....