All posts tagged with "rubber stamping"
Challenge43
On the DoCraft Forum there is a weekly challenge – this is my first attempt at it. The sketch was for a square card with two squares and a circle on it plus a sentiment. The card was cut down from cream A4 textured card (and the remnant used below) and coloured round the edges with a blue ink pad....
Rubberband backing
I recently read about using rubberbands to make an interesting background so thought I’d have a go. The bands were various thicknesses and I wrapped them around an acrylic block which I then inked-up using a Versamark embossing pad. I sprinkled silver on the left-hand one and blue on the right...
Playtime
What a great evening we’ve just had! I invited a good friend of mine, Janet, to come play in my craftroom and also asked CarolineB (from the DoCraft Forum) to join us. We’ve never met Caroline before but have ‘spoken’ via email – she lives about 1/2 mile up the road from...
Grid Technique
The theme for a competition I entered was ‘Cinderella’ – my take on it didn’t win any prizes! I do love the grid technique though. I don’t have any ‘girly’ stamps so didn’t have anything that looked like the cartoon character herself but I thought that...
Spotlighting
This is such a lovely idea to use when you’ve got a ‘busy’ stamped image. This is another Non Sequitur stamp, from one of their oriental plates. The image is stamped twice, here onto glossy card, and embossed with a clear powder. One of the images is then mounted onto the card blank...
Highly Commended
A few years ago Non Sequitur (wonderful stamp manufacturer in the US) had a competition for items using their images. I sent several items to them but they picked my least favourite to give a Highly Commended award to. I stamped the image of the man onto glossy card with a permanent black ink. I then...
Faux Layering
This is a technique I taught to my stamping club friends. It involves an aperture cut in acetate, sponges, various inks and outlines to make the flat image look like several layers on top of each other.