Still playing with my new RubberMoon Stamp Sets and patterns – I am having so much fun with it and I hope you will find some inspiration with it too – here is a summary for Day 5-7
Nat April Patterns 5 -7 from Nathalie Kalbach on Vimeo.
Here are the three patterns from the video:
Here are the stamps I used for these patterns:
Ever wondered how those beautiful rubber stamps you use are made? Join me in this Behind the Scenes Interview with RubberMoon. RubberMoon is a family owned company in Missouri and I am so happy that they are turning my designs into beautiful stamps.
Behind The Scenes with RubberMoon from Nathalie Kalbach on Vimeo.
I hope you enjoyed this interview and the little view behind the scenes. All the work that goes into the rubber stamps makes me even more happy to be part of the RubberMoon family. If you are like me and trying to make smart choices by supporting the little guys, you can do that with every purchase here. I am proud of the quality of my stamps, the design effort that goes into them, and the many hands that make them possible. Check them out here :)
Hello from the Creative Squad and a post from Jennifer Gallagher to kick off February for us. Jennifer is using some of my Large Circle Jumble, Stroll Around the Block and My Home is My Castle rubber stamps for her charming piece on canvas. She was inspired by our theme this month: Today We Smile – They say smiling can lift our mood and maybe improve our overall health. Let’s try it! Think about what makes you smile and share it with all of us. After all, smiles are also known to be contagious :)
This month the Creative Squad is looking at what makes each of us smile. We are pondering what makes us truly happy and reflecting that feeling into our projects. Well, for me, the answer will always be my family. Nothing makes me happier than being at home with them. We love to cook together, play board games, and watch movies. With that in mind, I’ve put together an adorable little project that reflects my love of home.
I started by stamping Nat’s Circle Drive (positive) stamp onto a sheet of newsprint in vivid chartreuse archival ink. Next, I ripped the sheet of newsprint into strips and glued them onto my canvas pad to represent grass.
Then, I sprayed my canvas with dylusions periwinkle blue ink spray to represent sky. You can adjust the depth of color by adding more spray or dabbing with a wet paper towel. Allow the ink spray to thoroughly dry. To add additional interest, I sprayed the Circle Drive stamp with a mist of water and pressed it into the blue ink spray in several spots and then dabbed the water up with a paper towel. It left behind the stamped design.
To add stars in the sky, I stamped Nat’s Star Tag stamp with buttercup archival ink and pressed it around the canvas.
For interest around the grass, I rubbed a brown ink pad on the edge of the canvas pad.
Next, I stamped Nat’s Cape Cod stamp along with the Street Sign, Snail Mail mailbox and the My Home is My Castle sentiment stamps onto scrap watercolor paper with black archival ink. Then, I colored them in with a wet paint brush and scribble sticks.
I cut each of the stamped images out and then mounted them onto the canvas pad with mounting tape.
I hope this project has inspired you to break out your favorite n*Studio stamps and make something today that puts a smile on your face. Be sure to share your creations with Nat and the creative squad!
Thank you Jennifer for sharing with us what makes you smile and for showing us this gorgeous project. You can find my Rubber Stamps in my Online Shop and here are some of the other supplies that Jennifer used:
Feel inspired? Working on something yourself that you’d like to share? I love to see how you interpret our monthly themes. Email me how you used my stencils and stamps with the theme and email me an image – I would love to share your projects in my next “n*Spiration From Around the Globe“.
I just love how you made the “grass” Jennifer!
For our monthly play date, Kim and I wanted to show another great way to use rubber stamps – to make an impression in paper clay!
We thought my new Large Circle Jumble and Small Circle Jumble sets would be a nice shape and size for some magnets. Our plan: to stamp into the clay, paint them with some acrylic paint, and attach magnets to the back for the refrigerator, bulletin board, wherever magnets will stick.
Paper clay is fun and easy to work with and is air dry so you don’t even need to turn on an oven. Here we chose the Circle Drive stamp from the Large Circle Jumble set, and flattened out some clay on a non stick surface to about 1/8-1/4″ thick and big enough to fit the design.
Time to stamp!
Press the stamp evenly into the surface, making sure to cover the whole design with pressure.
Really press it in there!
Then we cut around the stamp using a knife and the edge of the stamp as a guide. Work over a cutting mat and watch your fingers :)
Trim all the way around the stamp and pull away the excess clay. You can save the extra for later use.
Gently lift the edge of the stamp to reveal the impression.
Here is the big reveal and a great impression in the clay!
We tried almost every design from both the Large Circle Jumble set and the Small Circle Jumble set. Follow the directions on your paper clay package for drying times. Ours took a few days to completely dry before we could move to the next step.
Once the clay is completely dry, you can use a sanding block to smooth down the edges. Be gentle!
Now it’s time to assemble some acrylic paint and fine brushes for the detailed painting.
The Valley Road stamp from the Small Circle Jumble set looks so cute!
Here is the Broadway stamp from the Large Circle Jumble set getting some paint on the design.
And here is from the Park Blvd from the Large set…
…with different orange colors to bring out the design.
It takes a little patience to paint them but it was fun to spend the morning chatting and painting with a friend :)
When the pain was dry, we cut our magnetic tape into squares and put it on the back of each magnet.
Here are the finished paper clay magnets with rubber stamped designs.
And in action holding up some cards and such! Here are some of the supplies that we used for this project:
So much fun to make some cards with my new Circle Jumble Sets. I used the Circle Drive Positive and Negative Stamps of both Sets (small and large) and just played around.
For this card I used some dye based inks on a small round gel plate and then stamped with the plate to create some overlapping circles in different colors. Then I used the small positive and negative Circle drive and stamped on top.
For this card I repeated the stamping with the inked up round gel plate and then used the Large Positive Circle Drive stamp in the center and the Small Central Drive on the sides.
And here I just stamped the Large Positive and Negative Circle Drive overlapping each other and used the Topper stamp from the set on the side. It was fun to do a coordinating set of cards- and I stacked them away to use for a variety of occasions.
Here are the supplies I used for the cards
Using some large kraft tags I made a little accordion card for some friends who just moved.
I stamped the different houses from my Stroll Around the Block set as well as the stamps from the My Home is My Castle set on the different panels.
I used some watercolor to add some color here and there and added some words to the street sign :)
I love using kraft paper- it is also surprisingly making some of the watercolors appear more opaque – so I learned something :)
I want all those houses …or maybe just one- …LOL- I woudl take any of them :)
Here are some of the supplies I used:
What a thoughtful card!
I especially like how the stamped houses look on the kraft paper.
Happy Holidays,
Sue
Kim and I had our monthly playdate and made some Christmas Ornaments and Gift Tags. OH that was so much fun!
We mostly used my new RubberMoon Stroll Around The Block and My Home is My Castle stamp as well as some small stamps from the release before.
We used some chipboard drink coasters and stamped on top of them with black archival ink
For some I used Eclipse Tape – which has a tacky side, stamped on top to duplicate the stamped image and mask off the image on the coaster.
It is such an easy and fun way to create a scenery by working from the foreground to the background.
Here is the midcentury house now appearing behind the craftsman house.
The cool thing about the Eclipse Tape is that you can reuse it.
We also stamped on top of some wooden small tags.
And then we were ready to start the fun.
We used watercolors
and watercolor pencils- I love he vibrancy of the Caran D’Ache Museum Aquarelle pencils.
I also mixed the pencils with some Gouache paint. Love how the the transparency of the watercolor pencils and the opacity of the gouache work look together.
Here are my ornaments
and here are Kim’s
and on the left my gift tags and the right Kim’s.
Using my very old, very beloved Japanese Screw Punch we made holes into our ornaments and threaded some string through it for hangers.
Look at the details in Kim’s ornaments- I love this so much – She created little Christmas lights, and wreath and garlands, and even some candles in the window.
And the wreath in watercolor around the Cape Cod – soooo love it.
I think this was our favorite Playdates so far :)
And here are mine hanging in the tree- I really like how they look like- the colors really pop off the tree
Hope you enjoyed our playdate and give it a try . Here is a list of the supplies we used:
Hope you have a wonderful holiday season!
Oh my gosh — What fun. These are so cute. Merry Christmas!
thank you so much Stephanie!!! hope you had a wonderful christmas!!!
Today: Dreaming of a little home away from home to soak in some sun, relax and let the world go round without me!
Don’t we all have days like that :) ?
I used the numerals stamp from my Home is my Castle stamp set and stamped it on tape – love the look. I also stamped my art deco stamp from the Stroll Around the Block stamp set and then added some of the Cardboard stamps around it
Some stenciling with the Chicago Stencil and some marks with a soft pencil. I love when the cardboard kind of looks as it comes out through a torn layer of paper, which can be easily achieved with those stamps by only partly inking and stamping them.
Here are some of the supplies I used
Wishing you a wonderful Monday!
“I have no idea what I’m doing and that’s kind of how I love it” – True for a lot of areas in my life ;)
I painted with my new Art Alchemy Acrylic Paint, which Finnabair has sent me to try. I like that they are a bit on the thicker side and the colors are beautiful. I used my Batik Mini foam stamps and love how much texture they created. For the circles I used a round sponge which I had laying around and then stamped inside of it in white with the back end of a brush.
Using a more grey-ish ink I added some texture using my Cardboard rubberstamp set.
I traced some of the patterns with a black pen.
What about you , are you a total planner and know exactly what you are doing or are you also a bit of a “let’s try it” person?
Here are some of the supplies I used for this spread;
I love this project ! The background really inspires me to work in my art journal ! Thank you for the inspiration !
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