All posts in "Rubberstamping" category
All Creatures Great and Small
Sir Stampalot are having their February Challenge and the theme is All Creatures Great and Small and I thought I’d have a go. I firstly dug out this lovely stamp from Third Coast Rubber Stamps of a cat with wings (I can’t direct you to the exact stamp – they have thousands of them! Go...
Queen of Hearts
Over at Quietfire Designs there’s the 2nd Annual Queen of Hearts Challenge going on. I thought this would be easy but found it wasn’t really – everything I had in mind didn’t look quite right when I tried it! Oh well, I did manage to put a card together and I’m sure I’ll...
Project Book
We had been asked if we fancied a year-long project at Stamp Club and after everyone agreed they’d like that we were commissioned to make some sort of record of each technique we learned throughout the 11 months of the club year. We could make or buy the book itself so I used an album I’d...
Valentine Challenge
A Valentine card with no red or pink in sight – that was the challenge thrown down by Michael Strong this week. I’m showing my contribution here, just the one scan this time as I didn’t think about photographing each step – it’s all quite simple really. I took a piece of recycled...
Re-inker Float v1
For our ‘homework’ at Stamp Club we were given a sketch to reproduce – you’ll see it below. I had recently seen a technique I fancied trying, it’s called the Reinker Float Background Technique and can be found at Stamping 411. There are some really fun techniques on that site...
Blog Hop
Well, this is my very first Blog Hop and I just hope I am doing everything correctly. The theme is weddings/valentines using Michael Strong stamps – the biggest problem I have is that I don’t have his lovely heart shaped stamp so I’ve had to work around that slight hiccup! I was bought...
Half-Step Card
This card is based on an idea by Sheila Weaver which you can find on Joanna Sheen’s website. Sheila uses a lot of CD printables where I have used rubber stamping. The template is very cute and quite easy. I always make one out of cheap cardstock first – and keep that to work from in the future...
Michael Strong Stamps
As a Christmas Gift, Nigel bought me some Michael Strong Stamps taking advantage of the free postage he was offering for a few weeks. I have admired these for a long time so jumped at the chance to get some at last. Most of Michael’s stamps are this Cloisonné style and his site has some great...
Another Challenge
I think I’ve been bitten by the Challenge Bug! Over at StampTV they had this rather appealing sketch so I decided to give it a go. I swapped the rectangle for a circle and cut out the stamped and embossed image with a nestability – I took the starkness off the white card with a little red ink...
Anything by Tim!
The Stamp Man Challenge Blog has tempted me with their “Anything By Tim” (as in Holtz) Christmas post. I don’t have many of his stamps – in fact, only the one!, but I used it three times to make it look like more I began by pressing Distress Ink pads (Fired Brick and Peeled Paint)...
Easel Card
Easel Cards seem very popular at the moment and I can quite see why. A regular card takes on a whole new aspect when they’re opened and stood in a different way to the norm. This sympathy card was made for a friend who’s recently lost her father – there’s not really anything one...
Spotlight Revisited
At Stamp Club last night I showed the ladies how to do this technique. Some had done it before and it was a nice reminder about how great it can look, others did it for the very first time and produced some fabulous results. The basic instructions I gave: Stamp an image twice onto plain cardstock....