Watercolors and Rubber Stamps

Water coloring is an easy and quick way to create something beautiful on paper. Pan watercolors, which are often very reasonably priced, are perfect to have in your craft supplies along with rubber stamps. We have many stamp designs that lend themselves to be colored in using a small paint brush.Here are some examples of stamping and painting with watercolors.

Above, our Circles Rubber Cling Stamp in blue ink on watercolor paper, a black cardstock mat embossed with words and white card base.

The Circles Rubber Stamp is one of our most versatile design for adding watercolors. The stamp measures about 4 inches x 6 inches in size. It is a design that you can stamp many times and never get bored with. Because of its universal theme, the stamp is great for a handmade card front and goes with any sentiment. It's also great for a journaling page since layers go well over it, while still showing pattern.

Above photo is our Circles Rubber Stamp in a dark colored blue: Distress Oxide Chipped Sapphire. The paper is from a mixed media pad, Strathmore 90 lb and has a smooth surface ideal for adding watercolors. The mixed media paper is good if you want a perfect stamp impression without worrying about textured paper.

Tip: When using textured paper specifically for watercolors, remember to place craft foam or a paper towel under your paper when stamping especially large background rubber stamps to get a perfect impression.

Another one of our rubber stamps great for water coloring is Leaves Background Rubber Stamp. It measures approximately 4 inches x 6 inches. The great feature of this design is that it leaves room for painting shadows under the leaves, which is so fun to do!

For the leaves card, I used a subtle ink, Distress Oxide, Rusty Hinge (a brownish, orange ink) to blend with the watercolors of orange, red and yellow.

For some of the leaves, I added highlight lines with a thin, orange marker to make them stand out a bit.

Another stamp that is smaller in size, but like Leaves Background is Foliage Rubber Stamp. It has a similar pattern in which you could color in shading under the leaves.

The large background stamps make excellent 5x7 sized cards and are fun to add word stickers for your intended occasion.

Rubber Stamp featured:

Circles Rubber Stamp

Leaves Background Rubber Stamp

To see all of our leaves related rubber stamps, click here.

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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