Rubber Stamping Projects

I took our Lady in Lace Rubber Stamp and made it an 'off-center' centerpiece for this A2 card.  Coloring in the dress with light blue and light green copics, and adding a glitterly flower in her hair was fun.  Also, I gave her a pearl ring on her finger to match the pearl accents along the top and bottom of the card front.  Normally, you wouldn't think these colors would go together, but for some reason it all worked out nicely! A 3" white doily is sandwiched between the circle that was die cut out of a 4.25" x 4" square of rainbow dotted paper.  Brown and Ivory Petaloo flowers are featured at the bottom of her dress.  The Vintage Lace design along both top and bottom of the card are from our Vintage Lace Borders stamp set.  The color of the base card is a rustic, orange-brown, but for some reason works well with the rainbow patterned paper.  A little sepia ink was added along the circle edge of the center to match the rustic look. 

I love to emboss, and ever since I purchased black embossing powder, there's no stopping me! I embossed our Pocket Watch stamp onto watercolor paper and cut out around the clock part so it would fit into the metal time piece.         The 2" metal pocket watch by Tim Holtz's, Idea-Ology looks grand on an altered gift box.  I trimmed around the clock, placed some foam into the backing to prop up the stamped design (it's a 2 piece embellishment and glues together easily). Deep Red Stamps, Pocket Watch,   (sized at 2" x 2"). Top view is seen below.  Along with the metal watch, I glued on another metal embellishment, a key.  It was black in color, but I added some silver metal leaf to the surface to distress it.  The pen is a paper die cut that was decoupaged.  The corners of the top paper are curled to reveal some more silver metal leaf.  I admit that if I were to purchase metal leaf again, I would buy the gold color....

If you're like me, I will stamp an image onto a test piece of paper (or several) before creating any project.  And, if you're like me , you have an excess of stamped images in your reserves to use someday .  I found a fun way to use those "extra stamped designs": Create a journal page!  See photo at the bottom of this post. This card is a 5.5" x 5.5" (14 cm x 14 cm) card featuring our Bird and Holly Rubber Stamp . Stamped with Brown StazOn ink onto a patterned paper and layered with burlap and green die cut trim. Fuzzy yarn in cream color surrounds the matte.  Green StazOn ink is daubered along the 2 sides.   So I took those unused, stamped images that I have been working on lately, grouped them by type or style, and placed them onto a journal page.  The well-known brand of artist papers, Strathmore has a wire bound book, "Mixed Media."  The size of each page is a perfect, 5.5" x 8.5".The weight of each page is 90 lb. and is...

I created a little wall hanging by recycling a jewelry gift box and adding a black velvet ribbon along with our Village Shoppes Rubber Stamp .  This stamp is so fun to color in. The design was stamped with black StazOn ink and colored in using Copic Markers and Derwent Inktense Colored Pencils.  Iridescent glitter paint covers the entire image.  Black jewelry wire was bent into 2 decorative shapes.  You jewelry designers out there would do a better job than me with your pliers!  I cut chipboard to fit neatly into the box and glued the entire piece onto the chipboard.  Placing the entire piece into the box, you will end up covering the knots in the corners. I bought a multi-colored glitter paint set just to test it out and have ended up using it on almost every holiday project. I highly recommend having a set!

An A2 landscape orientation fit the Poinsettia Tickets Rubber Stamps and the Holly Ticket Rubber Stamp (same collection) .  I love stamping white ink onto black paper, so I continued with the black and white theme this season.  The accent color stripe is an olive green velvet 1/4" ribbon on top of textured olive green paper trim.  The holly trim running along the top and bottom of the card front is a special trick. I took our Holly Branch Rubber Stamp , cut it out and added some pink opaque marker on the holly berries. The Holly Branch makes a nice trim piece with its jagged leaf edge. It was easy to tear the black and white striped paper to fit between the holly trim. For the inside of the card, I stamped the same Holly Branch and the "Happy Holidays" stamp from our Holiday Grunge Seal Stamp Collection.

This card size is a 5.5" x 5.5" (13.97 cm x 13.97 cm) and features rolled corners to reveal our Holly Background stamped in Dark Green StazOn ink onto white card stock.  I tore the black and white striped paper along the top and bottom edges and rolled the edges, adding decoupage to hold the curl.  I actually stamped the Holly Background and cut it in half since I was only revealing a little in the corners on the red matte. The off-center 'centerpiece' is one of our ticket rubber stamps from the Holly and Poinsettia Tickets Stamp Set.   Some green glitter paint is added on the corner curls so to minimize the white.

This brown paper shopping bag was converted into a fall gift bag with a foliage theme.  I took a 6" x 8" (15 cm x 20 cm) bag and with some stamping made it fun to give again.  How did I take a 3" x 4" background rubber stamp and hide the seams? The secret is tissue paper.  Photo below shows our Fleur De Lis Rubber Stamp stamped 4 times using Ranger's Distress Ink in Walnut Stain.  No alignment tools were used.  BEFORE FOLDING: Tissue paper is so easy to fold that you simply crease along, hiding the white in-between areas.  AFTER FOLDING:   For this sized bag, our Fleur de Lis stamp fits 4 times perfectly.  Photo Below: For the other side, I used our Burlwood Background Rubber Stamp.  That stamp measures 3.75" x 5.75" and only had to be stamped 2 times.  Each side of the bag has a centerpiece of a leaf or leaves stamped on watercolor paper and colored in with Derwent Inktense Colored Pencils.  Photo above features...