Rubber Dance Art Stamps - Blog

Hello, Samantha here today and I have a tutorial showing how I made this sweet hanging bird decoration using one of the sticks my dog brought home from a walk. Poppy found a stick with lovely markings so I couldn't let it get chewed up, I thought maybe a bird once sat on it, singing a sweet song, that was my inspiration. To thread the wire through I made a hole all the way through at each end, a pokey tool did the job really well. No need to raid anyone's power tools. I threaded the wire through and curled it around to stop the stick sliding off and to make it a little ornate. These hooks could have things hanging off them or beads could have been threaded on to wire above the stick for added decoration. I stamped and coloured my bird, flowers and leaves using watercolours. I added wire to the back of the bird as shown, with some wire extending past the foot, this wire sticks in to the stick invisibly so it really looks like the bird is standing on the stick. To make the wire i...

Hi Everyone! How are you? I was back at work for the first time in 10 weeks last week, what a shock to the system! My project for you today is a lace cut (is that the right word?) mandala page and it's really not as tricky as it might look. First I painted a very simple background with my fingers, just patches of colour (light pink, cerise, orange & turquoise). I added some background stamping using the Mixed A Sentiment #2 and Grungy Borders stamp sets. I also added some stencilling, using the same paint colours (but forgot to take a photo!) I cut a black piece of card the same size as my journal page, marked the centre of the page on one of the long edges and use a compass to draw (half) circles from the inside to the outside. I didn't use any particular masurements for this. Next I created the sections. I drew some simple leave shapes first and then filled in the gaps with very simple squares, triangles, rectangles. If you're worried about making mistakes, fill in th...