Rubber Stamping Projects

It's important to take time out of our busy days and spend it doing an activity that feeds the soul. Paper crafting offers many forms and not all of them are devoted to making cards for others. Cutting, folding, coloring, drawing, and even stamping creatively will provide healing of the mind. Whether it's a busy holiday season or a just a particularly hectic period of your life, take time out for yourself. Here are some ideas and steps to inspire you. All of the links below link to stamps on our DeepRedStamps site. Supplies: 1. A journal (at least one!) either handmade or purchased. From mini composition pads to mixed media coil bound pads to handmade junk journals, you can work in all of these depending on your mood. Journals are indispensable for when you don't know what to make. They offer the most freedom to be creative without worrying about the end result. 2. Scissors -. A fine-tipped pair and a heavy-duty pair. The small ones work great for small cuts in tight places...

In our rubber stamp catalog, we have many designs of clocks and of wings. If you stamp these designs together, you get a wonderful theme: Time flies.... so be sure to do what you love! The common saying is that Time flies when you're having fun.  Well, that is exactly what you'll have when you create ATCs with these rubber stamps. A standard ATC (artist trading card) measures 2.5 inches by 3.5 inches (6,35 cm x 8,89 cm).  Take 3 ATCs and distress the background whatever way you wish, you can't go wrong here, with distressing anything goes! Then add the stamps, here is how..... From left to right above: Make Today Count ATC Time Flies...Use Your Wings ATC Start Doing Things You Love ATC Above ATC features our  Pocket Watch Rubber Stamp  and one of the wings from  Wings Collection Rubber Stamp Set . I colored in the pocket watch with a gold metallic marker and various blue Tombow markers on the wing feathers. The girl is a sticker. I colored the face with a subtle...

​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...