Rubber Stamped Clothes Pins to Decorate your Life

We take ordinary wooden clothespins and with a few rubber stamps, we turn them into a beautiful works of art. This project is part of the "Decorate your Life with Deep Red Stamps" Series. You have probably seen desktop or wall picture frames that feature a clip so you can place your favorite photo in them easily. In this project we will show you how to create your own frame with clip. Included in this post is a free, printable templates for 2 sizes of wooden clothespins that are the most common. You can download the template here.

For these projects, we used some of our border stamps such as:
Art Deco Borders Rubber Stamp Set (in green ink)
Carved Botanical Borders Rubber Stamps (stamped in pink) and
Linocut Floral Panels Stamps (stamped in navy blue ink)
Woodcut Flowers Rubber Stamp Set (seen in the light tan ink above)
These rubber stamps have excellent detail for these beautiful pins.

Also, the film reel image is from our Vintage Photo Frame Rubber Stamp Set. Add embellishments or a letter to monogram a clip. Clothes pins, once decorated like this, can be placed on a gift bag.

Above, you will see the 2 common sizes of wooden clothes pins. One is slightly longer by about 10 mm but the width for each is the same. You can buy them at your local grocery store or online at Amazon.

Above, one of the Art Deco Borders Rubber Stamps in green ink. I traced a clothes pin and colored in the background of the area with a marker in light blue.

After cutting out the stamped paper, I added a bit of green to the edges to darken them.

I painted most of the clothes pins white, but I did one in black acrylic paint. In the photo above, you see the black pin with the an art deco design stamped on it. Also, a butterfly from Butterflies Pair Rubber Stamp embossed in orange.

Above, you also see our Fleur de Lis Background stamped on a pin with a metal tree embellishment and monogrammed letter "S" bead under it.

A package of wooden clothes pins is inexpensive and you get a lot! This is a fun project that creates such pretty and useful things that will decorate your life!

Journaling Techniques to Create a Card

In this project, I combined some favorite journaling techniques to create a handmade card. For those of you that do not create junk journals, that's ok because the processes, like watercolor paint splashes, rolling edges of the paper are used below make a very pretty card with many layers. I also include below a couple of tips on keeping your tools sharp and options for using different focal points. We use a center layout where everything is built around the middle line of the card. Embellish using the top left and bottom right with a background pattern of script in black ink gives the green center a nice contrast which is often seen in journaling. (The red flowers are watercolor designs that were inkjet printed.) You can use stickers of flowers just the same. The Venus de Milo Rubber Stamp is now available. It measures about 1.25" wide x 3.25" tall. The oval frame is from our Create a Cameo Rubber Stamp Collection . You will notice, I used the top part of the Ve

Non-Halloween Stamps to Create Scary

The dramatic effect of white embossing onto black paper doesn't just have to be done at Halloween. Here we used some unconventional stamps to create a scary tag with a base of black. While these stamps normally wouldn't be in the Halloween category, they end up somehow being perfect to create a scary tag. The best way to get a bright white look is by embossing with white powder. Embossing always comes out looking extraordinary and worth the extra effort. Above is our Victorian Man Profile Rubber Stamp embossed onto black chipboard. He'll make a great embellishment for a Halloween. (measures about 2 inch x 2 inch). A tree branch from our Season of Joy Collection is one of my favorite stamps. It expresses the beauty of nature in a simple way. Above, the branch stamp was embossed in Copper Powder onto black card stock. Our Grunge Ticket Rubber Stamp is seen above, embossed in white onto black card stock. The stamp measures about 3 inches tall x 1.5 inches wide. I love

IPhone Cover Decor

Since Xyron has a fabulous way of making anything into a sticker, I decided to create décor for the back of my cell phone case. Taking beautiful, damask patterned glitter paper from DCWV, 6x6 pad, 'The Glitter Basics" I cut out my iPhone 6s cover pattern using a template I created in plain white cardstock of my case. To cut out the circle in the middle, I used an X-Acto knife. The Scooter Rubber Stamp was embossed on red paper and cut out with scissors. I smudged 'Claret' color StazOn ink around the edges. After placing the scooter through the Xyron Creative Station, I placed it onto the iPhone pattern and ran both through together. The Creative Station can take such thick items. You will see below that I ran embellishments made from shrink plastic and it had no problem with them. One of the magical features of the Xyron's sticker makers is that the top of your project comes out unscathed. You just peel the plas

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