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August 18th, 2007

Don’t Waste Your Paint - Recycled Newspaper Backgrounds

I lay down newspaper on my art table before I do any painting to protect the surface. Since I am not the neatest person with a brush, I tend to get a lot of paint on the newspaper. Rather than throw it away, I recycle it into an art background. Newspaper is just a bit […]

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August 15th, 2007

August Stamping Mad Arts and Crafts Carnival

Welcome to the August 16, 2007 edition of Stamping Mad’s Arts and Crafts carnival. As you wander through the posts, I hope you find inspiration for your own creative endevours and will add your own post to next month’s carnival.

Alvaro Fernandez presents Yaakov Stern: Build Your Cognitive Reserve posted at SharpBrains, saying, “Why activities such […]

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August 9th, 2007

The Bird Made Her Nervous Skinny Book Page

I’m still playing around with skinny book pages. This format is downright addicting. The Bird Made Her Nervous is a melted crayon canvas with a home decor foam flower stamp stamped on it. Overtop of the crayon, I used paper lace and liquid acrylics to create a pattern. I sketched the big bird and used […]

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July 27th, 2007

Back to School With Rubber Stamps

Everywhere I look, it seems like back to school supplies are out. I thought it might be fun to talk about some ways to use rubber stamps to personalize school supplies:
Decorate a strip of paper with stamps and colored pencils. Cut it to fit a cheap Bic type pen and glue it into place. Spray […]

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July 23rd, 2007

Make Art Monday - A Page for the Skinny Book Swap

I have been working hard on the skinny book project and having a lot of fun. You’ll notice that I am still loving the fleur de lis stamp. I used melted pastels as a background, stamped the image using gesso and painted the flower using liquid acrylics. If you haven’t already joined and are looking […]

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July 6th, 2007

Seek the Nest Beeswax Collage

This was my first try at using beeswax for collage. It was fun, but much harder than it looks. I began by painting a background and stamping the fleur de lis stamp all over it. I cut it in thirds because I was working on backgrounds for the skinny book swap at Altered Abbey. (As […]

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July 4th, 2007

The Measure of a Man Mixed Media Collage

I finally stopped using the fern stamp and am now addicted to this fleur de lis home decor stamp. I’m playing around with a whole “Measure of a Man” series and this one is the first I’ve completed. The rest are harder because I’m trying to answer the question in this one. Once again, the […]

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July 2nd, 2007

Artful Monday - Grow Mixed Media Collage

Today’s mixed media collage is a lot brighter than most of the pieces I do. Once more, I used the fern rubber stamp. I’m going to have to hide it from myself so I break out some of my other stamps!
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June 9th, 2007

Graduation Card Idea

This lovely and elegant graduation card layout by Rubber Stamping Fun is easy to whip up at the last minute for all of those grads in your life.
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June 6th, 2007

Wednesday Spotlight - Black and White

I’m always trying to add more color to my art. This artwork from Rubber Designs shows how amazing black and white can be. I’m going to give some black and white pieces a try, but it will be hard, since I am kind of a color addict.
By the way, if you want to recreate […]

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