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I feel a bit surrounded by all things festive at the moment so instead of something Christmassy I decided to create a little sewing box using the Sew Sweet stamps for today's tutorial. Even though it's not seasonal it would make a great gift I think! So that's my tenuous link! My mojo has been very sadly lacking lately so I decided to go back to my comfort zone of blue, cream and brown this month. My box has soft colours and a slightly vintage feel to it. I did some distressing but kept it fairly minimal as I wanted my box to still be pretty and feminine; not too grungy. To start with I painted a MDF box with chalk paint (Americana Chalky Finish in Serene). It only needs one coat - this stuff is fab! When dry sand the edges to reveal the buff colour of the MDF beneath and to give the box a more distressed look. Stamp a tag with the pattern background and the dress form, Stamp the dress form again onto a scrap of blue paper, cut out and layer ...

Ho, ho, ho, my stamping buddies! Bibi here today (the owner of Rubber Dance) with a super gift idea for you - at least I think it is ... ;-) Do you know what to get your stampin' buddies for Christmas? How about one of these lovely grabbags with lots of stamps from Rubber Dance! If the term "grabbag" is new to you, it means a nice selection of stamps where the retail value is much more than what you pay for them. You won't know what you get, but I can promise that there will be a good variety from different sets.   This is what they look like - kraft paper bags hand stamped and decorated with ribbon and twine: The fir branch stamps from Pines Fir Yew are heat embossed, using white embossing powder. There is a white cotton lace ribbon across the bags. The English texts are from  Christmas Cheers & Gift Tags . The God Jul text (means "Good Yule") is from  Norwegian Christmas The bags are available in two price ranges,  with stampe...

Good morning, crafty friends. Before we all get into the annual hectic of creating Christmas cards, decorations and home decor, I decided to make a sunny and warm canvas. I used Gelatos for the background and some Gesso with stencils, I stamped my giraffe and the sentiment on tissue. All done :) If you want to order some stamps in the Rubber Dance store you can use my special discount code " majo2015 " and you will save 15% on your order!

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my monthly tutorial made for Rubber Dance stamp company. I made this simple- not so - tag with paints, stencils, mediums and some letter stickers and it's all about counting your own blessings. The new Pick a number stamp set from RD is a star of this tag as you can see. So let's see how to make this tag! 1. Make a hand made tag (or use the real one if you have it) and cover it with 3 colors of fluid acrylics. 2. Use stencil to add the long arrow over the tag using modeling paste or any other texture paste and heat dry the paste to make some fun bubbles over the dry paste. 3.Use another stencil and add some wording with white acrylic paint. Let the paint dry before the next step/ 4.Stamp the numbers randomly over the painted tag using permanent black ink. I also added some more numbers later and this is not shown on this photo, but on the final tag only. 5.Add some more golden paint over the wh...

Hello my dear crafty friends! Today I am going to share a small tutorial made with Rubber Dance stamps, Earth Safe Finishes paints , Clearsnap inks and Makin's Clay molded images. This is not a really blog tutorial project, but then I had all those photos and decided to make a small tutorial for the Rubber Dance blog. Step by step tutorial: 1.I had this old and brown painted three circles wooden frame and I just hated the color. So the first thing to do was to paint it  with a thick layer of ESF Rock Candy Chalk it up paint. The wooden piece  had a texture made with texture paste and stencil, so it is seen after the painting again. 2. I stamped two Rubber Dance face stamps into the dry painted  surface, inside the circles with Clearsnap Crafters pigmented Night ink and then  heat embossed it with clear embossing  powder. 3. Some Makin's Clay faces were molded inside the very old (don't even know the company name ) silicone mold...

Hello everyone!  There is still lots of time to enter our challenge this month.  Our (optional) challenge theme is ‘TIS THE SEASON and as always there's an amazing bundle of stamps up for grabs to a randomly selected winner. And we will also choose our DT Pick of the Month and our Honorable Mention (given to our favorite make using Rubber Dance stamps). Here's our inspiration mood board for this month: Nov/Dec Challenge:    To join the challenge,  please see the guidelines here  and the original challenge post here .  Remember you don't have to use Rubber Dance stamps to play along (although we love it when you do!). Today's inspiration is provided by me …..   a Winter Tag.   Can't wait to see your challenge makes! Majo xxx www.rubberdance.com

Hi, it's Majo from the design team here to show you how to connect two amazing manufacturers for our crafting needs: Stamps from Rubber Dance and the beautiful chipboards from EyeConnect Crafts ! I started with the Star Garland from EyeConnect Crafts and the wonderful "Branch" set of stamps called  Pines Fir Yew .   I decided to leave the stars connected to apply Gesso and Perfect Pearl Mist *Biscotti* on both sides: Time to pop them out :) I used *Metal Magic* Embossing Powder from Debbi Moore, I love it, it's quite "chunky". A bit of Distress Ink on the edges. I used what we call *Bouillondraht* here in Germany (like a corrugated thin wire) to connect my stars, and decorated a Christmas tray: .... and the complete tray  Happy Crafting!  Don't forget about the 15% discount code you'll get on your next order in the Rubber Dance Online Store using " majo2015 "