Rubber Dance Art Stamps - Blog

Heyyy, everyone! It's Bibi here with a fun announcement! This month, Rubber Dance is happy to sponsor the stamping challenge over at the Craft Stamper Magazine's blog! How cool is that? (Very!) The Craft Stamper is THE coolest magazine for stampers in the UK, and it's sold worldwide - and of course their blog has readers from all corners of the world as well. (= €25 or $30) PLUS:  Their Design Team will have a look at all your gorgeous work, and choose their Top Three..... and the overall Winner will get published in Craft Stamper magazine ! Yes, the winning entry will appear in the UK's number one stamping magazine!!! AND:  The Challenge winner will be offered a Guest Designer spot for an upcoming challenge! So, what are you waiting for? OH, the link?? Here ya go: http://craftstamper.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/take-it-make-it-challenge-december.html I hope to see entries from MANY of our blog readers there! Have FUN - and good luck!!!  XOX, Bibi

Hi everyone! It's Bibi here, the owner of Rubber Dance, and guess what.... Today is my birthday!! Hey??! Not only is it my birthday - I have made a brand new website for Rubber Dance! But, wait - there is more: NEW stamps, too? You bet! I made these tags with some of the new stamps ... Yes, I made birthday tags for myself ... The backgrounds on the ones to the left and right are my first attempt with the really cool nail polish in water marbling technique. (If you have no idea what I'm talking about, here's a really good tutorial with Carla Sonheim). The tag in the middle was coloured with Distress inks and misted with water, while the stamped label on top is with the nail polish technique. Since it's my birthday, I'm in a particularly good mood - so let's have a SALE! :-) I'm turning 48 today, but I'm afraid I cannot offer a 48 % discount or I'd get ruined! :-O So, how about 5 %? That's not good enough, you say? OK, then .... s...

Hello again, my dear friends of Rubber Dance! My name is Gabriele from Art-a-tag and I am a Mixed Media artist from Germany.  Please follow me on the next step of our exciting journey using the fantastic Rubber Dance Art stamps.  I am so thrilled, when I look at those beautiful cards and projects created by the Rubber Dance Design Team. Most of my colleagues are very experienced and skilled stampers and I learn a lot from them. I must say, it is not as easy as it looks!!! I always struggle with the lack of material and those cute machines, that do all kinds of fantastic cut outs, embossing and things I might not even know. And all those fantastic embellishments!! Sometimes I feel like a child being jealous about other kids' toys. So I have to think of other solutions to keep things interesting. I have huge stacks of magazines for decoration, homes and gardens and such with beautiful photographs in it - I am glad I have a tolerant hubby, because I hoard tons of...

Welcome to the Rubber Dance Monthly Art Stamping Challenge! Our challenge is all about colour! Each month we bring you a gorgeous colour scheme to kick-start your muse.  Both our winner and Pick of the Month will get badges to proudly display on their blogs.  Winners will be announced on our blog on the 7th of the following month, so remember to check back to see if you won!  We'll draw an overall WINNER at random who receives an an amazing grab bag of unmounted Rubber Dance stamps worth 25 Euro! (that's over $30!) The Design Team will choose our favourite entry - our DT Pick of the Month.  Any entries using Rubber Dance stamps will get a special mention! For December our colours are bright and fresh blues, purples and pinks In addition to our colour scheme we also have an optional  THEME : BIRTHDAYS  (if you want to) (for example, use a birthday themed stamp, make a birthday gift, create some pretty packaging) ...

Hello everyone! It's Olga again here today and I will try to inspire you :-) I hope you all enjoy this new day and have some time for new creations ;-) I want to share with you my new winter card "Happy holidays". It's again a little vintage and very snowy :-) I love snow and I love to add gesso, texture paste and some glitter to make my winter cards more natural. I used some of the stamps from the set Pines Fir Yew stamped with green acryl paints, and StazOon for the phrase Happy holidays. You all know that I love to use stamps with paint and StazOn and then cut them from the paper and put on my card.  I really love how it looks a nd I hope you will like it too :-))) Notice how I put a dew drop over the 'o' in Holidays. I think it adds a cute detail. I didn't use a lot of decor for this card and I love how it came out. Let's create something sweet and cute for our friends and families!!! :-)  Wish you a wonderful day! B...

Is it Christmas yet? Not quite, but we've been in a Holiday mood at Rubber Dance this month. If you need more Christmas stamps, we've got a few of those and there's still time to order - especially if you live in Europe (we ship from Norway - free gift wrapping upon request!) Need some inspiration for the holidays? - We have LOTS, so make yourself ready for a looooong post with many pretties all at once! :-) By Majo. Instructions here By Majo By Susanne By Olga By Gabriele By Katy By Susanne (video tutorial here ) By Bibi By Susanne By Helen (video tutorial here ) By Katy We've made more than Christmas pretties this month ... here are some samples: By Katy (fun aging technique - instructions here ) By Irit By Olga By Gabriele By Susanne By Ashley By Majo A big, BIG thanks to my FAB team and guest designers for making so many awesome pretties with my stamps.  I'm grateful beyond words for a...

Hi everyone! It's me, Susanne, today and I've another Christmas decoration today to share with you. I loved loved loved how the awesome Pine Fir Yew stampes turned out when they were embossed on the cards in my previous post. This time I did nearly the same. The only difference is that I embossed them on white vellum! Awesome! What do you think? I used my Silhouette Studio Cutting file from my last lantern and added a new window style. I cut everything out of red cardstock and added some "snow" using white acrylic paint, some white texture paste and finally lots of Distress Glitter Clear Rock Candy! I cut my vellum and embossed the stamped images with white detail embossing powder. After I adhered them into my lantern I ripped some of the paper out to create the look of broken glass. I used this funny sentiment stamp from Rubber Dance. I love it!  It's so charming! I also used the fir branch in a more traditional way. I stamped it on white pap...