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DON'T HAVE TO BE PERFECT

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  Hello friends!! Josi Tomàs greets you again. Do you feel an obligation to be perfect? Sometimes we make the mistake of trying, forgetting that is doesn't have to be that way. If you feel identified with me, let's together make the effort to be natural and let ourselves to without feeling bad for not being "perfect". I leave you this little tutorial as inspiration. I hope you like it...   When I received the last stamps, I decided not to cut Flowers Gone Wild therefore, I have been able to stamp it with permanent black ink as a background and I painted it with watercolors.  Then I did yellow embossing with Sketchy Leaves (Clear-003) Then I stamped several stamps around... hearts in pink and text in black ink I made the final decoration with this beautiful doll painted with watercolors, a leave of white embossing on vellum and the expression "Don't have to be perfect"  I hope that from now on we live without so much pressure for perfection hahaha Bi...

Purr-fect CAS Card by Gail

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Hello Rubber Dance friends.  Gail here with a simple card using stamps from Mixed Media Marks , Happy Birthday and the adorably cute Purr-fect set.   Gotta love a cute cat!!! I used a pale blue card base and stamped the grid and stitched stamp from Mixed Media Marks using Sky Blue archival ink.  The stitch stamp is one of the extra bonus stamps you get in the A5 clear stamp version of this set.  Then I stamped the Cat and the Happy Birthday on white card using Night Sky archival, fussy cut and added them to the card.   I hope you like my cute and easy card. If you feel inspired to grab your stamps and create something, dn't forget to join the fun and link up your makes using Rubber Dance stamps in the Rubber Dance Stamping Lounge .  We are giving a €10 voucher to the shop eery month.  See you there!!! Don't forget to check out the Rubber Dance webshop .  There is a selection of stamps on special offer so hop over and check out the s...

Colorful Rainbow Foliage Card by Ellie Knol

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Hi, Ellie here..  Playing with stamps and color is like going on a journey. You start and end up making a unique creation!  This card started out with watercolor paints that were on my palette all mixed up, and I wanted to clean it: what better way as to make some rainbow colored cards?  I covered it with household wrap until it was dry.  The fun part was to play with stamps and fill up the surface. The how to:  - stamp and heat emboss some background stamps in white as shown. - mask off the white squares, and by masking the image the second time, stamp the images one in front of the other with a black ink.  - add touches of color to the images and the tiny squares for more interest and of course to create the focal point.  - Add black stamped script to the background.  - Draw with a white acrylic marker around the images to make them pop more.  - distress the edges with a paper-distresser. -  assemble the card front to a card base. See ...

Adventure | Passion | Inspiration [Mixed Media ATCs]

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Hej Rubber Dance Friends, it's Dunja from the Creativ Team here today and i'm sharing some Artist Trading Cards with you. As you know, i love Gelliprints, it's the same here as usual :)) The base is a background. I've used the cut outs of some VIC dies from Alexandra Renke this time.  I stamped the designs straight onto gel prints, cut them and glued them on. In connection with the punched parts. A nice combination, isn't it? I have a photo of each ATC for you to see the Details. Thanks so much for stopping by and happy Stamping, till next time Dunja   ( Blog  |  Instagram  |  Facebook ) Mix A Sentiment #1 Sketchy Leaves Sketchy Leaves (Clear - 0003) Mixed Media Marks #1 Mixed Media Marks #1 (Clear - 0001)   Rubber Dance links: Website Facebook Pinterest Blog Instagram YouTube      

Moon Flower Garden by Samantha Read

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Hello, Samantha here today and I'm sharing with you a home decor creation. Those of you who know my art will know that the moon appears in it's various phases, on most things I create, not that I'm obsessed with it or anything! I remember being a little girl, lying on the grass with dad looking at the moon and I asked him if flowers grew on the moon, he said, 'they might do'.  I think the best art we create is art from the heart, so when I matched up the fabulously fun Sketchy Flowers stamp set with this MDF moon and the Mixed Media Marks stamp set with the stars and Cape Canaveral postmark stamp I couldn't resist creating a moon flower garden of my own. The flowers were stamped on white card and coloured with watercolour paints. Every thing else is acrylic paints and the finer details were done with Posca paint pens. And that is a tear of happiness, we can't have the moon being sad! Here are the stamp sets I used: Sketchy Flowers #3 and Mixed Media Marks #3...

ATC cards and tags with Pencil Marks #4 and Carved Collection #5 by Mariken

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 Hi everyone! Mariken here, with a tutorial for you, making these cards and tags, with the new stamps! Love them so much!! For these cards I used: Carved Collection #5 and Pencil Marks #4. I started with making a print with acrylic paint on my gelliplate.                                          You can see that I used a stamp from Pencil Marks #4.                          After that I made some marks with white embossing powder and black ink.                       I finished my cards and tags with the beautiful flowers from Pencil \Marks #4.    ...

MORE MAY INSPIRATION

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  Hello Rubber Dance friends. Gail here today.  I hope the merry month of May is progressing well for you. We have a beautiful fresh moodboard to help get you inspired this month.  You can be inspired by anything on the moodboard; one or more colours, things, shapes, memories it inspires, things it makes you feel, etc. etc..  It's basically anything goes, but in case you need a little help to get started Dunja has put together this awesome inspiration for you. Here's the wonderful May Moodboard   If you are creating anything with Rubber Dance stamps this month, whatever your inspiration, please share in our FB fan group cos someone is going to win €10 to spend in the Rubber Dance store !   Don't forget.... You gotta be in it to win it! All new makes featuring Rubber Dance stamps added to the fb album are in the draw for the prize!! Now here's some inspiration from the team to get us started....       Josi used ...