Tag Archive for ‘rubbadubbadoo’
Custom Wrapping Paper
By: Stephanie Loomis, Artistic Guide and Editor-in-Chief Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. It’s the mantra of California living, and is spreading around the US. My brother and sister-in-law are the poster couple for green living (they live in Los Angeles, so it works.) They are expecting their first baby soon, so, rather than wrap a baby gift [...]
Rubbadubbado Rubber Stamps: Jennifer’s View
Finished size: 5.5 x 4.25″ Supplies: Stamps: All stamps by Rubbadubbadoo: AAA28F Flowers and Swirls D642H Happy Bday Paper: Cream Card Stock (Unknown) Waterfall Tonal Paper Pack (EK Success) Inks: Sepia Black ColorBox Pigment Stamp Pad (Clearsnap) Platinum ColorBox Metalxtra Pigment Ink Pad (Clearsnap) Green Encore! Ultimate Metallic Ink Pad (Tsukineko) Other: Clear Super Fine [...]
Rubbadubbadoo: Featured rubber stamp company
This month, we bring you the awesome images of Rubbadubbadoo rubber stamp company. Rubbadubbadoo is located in New Zealand, and ships their stamps worldwide. You can’t imagine the vast array of images available for the rubber stamper! There is an image for just about everything under the sun. Tania and Clinton have done a superb job of [...]
Weird Holidays: Look for Circles Day
by: Melanie Smith, Artistic Guide What a crazy theme -Weird Holidays – crazy but fun. I went and had a look at all of the weird things there are to celebrate and knew instantly that Look for Circles Day – (November 2) was the one for me. Looking after preschoolers all day means we sometimes go [...]
February Trail Maps
February 2010 Trail Map by Regena Good things come in threes! Rectangles, triangles and a circle (or is that an embellishment?). Where can you go with this map? Let’s see what trails the Artistic Guides were led down this month to inspire you to follow your own trail map! Stamps: Another Stamp Company Stamps: Hampton Arts Stamps: [...]
Special folds – Purse card
Sometimes it’s nice to have things a bit girly — and what’s more girly than handbags and shopping? This wee handbag purse contains a shopping gift card inside. Supplies: Stamps: Small rose (Rubbadubbadoo) Papers: Purple Bazzil – 8.5″ x 11″ White cardstock -8.5″ x 11″ Pink cardstock – 8.5″ x 11″ Inks: Fired Brick, Dusty [...]
Holiday Splendor: Christmas card from the family
Every year a wonderful lady that I used to work with would dress her dogs in reindeer antlers and take a photo of them for her Christmas cards. These photos were basically glued to the card and posted out. This was before I started paper crafting, and was my first experience with homemade cards [...]
Holiday Splendor: Nostalgic Santa Card
By: Melanie Smith, Artistic Guide Finished size: 4.125″ x 5.8″ This is a quick simple card for mass production at Christmas. No tricky or messy techniques in this one. Make the chalk colours as subtle or intense as you like. Supplies: Stamps: Classic Santa (Rubbadubbadoo) Spirit of [...]
Holiday Blizzard Project – Christmas Dinner Placemat
Holiday Table Placemat By: Melanie Smith, Artistic Guide Finished size: 11″ x 8.25″ I decided this year that I would make a tablemat for each person coming to Christmas lunch. I thought about each person and how I could make each one suit their personalitity while keeping a Christmas theme. This is the [...]
Holiday Blizzard Project – Chocolates Giftbox
The “Did You Make This?” Gift Box. By: Melanie Smith, Artistic Guide Finished size: 6″ x 6″ Sometimes at Christmas we like to give a little something special and indulgent that we have made ourselves. My sister-in-law is renowned for her home made coconut ice. I thought these little boxes would be perfect for giving [...]
Tractor Card for the Discoverer
Deere John By: Melanie Smith, Artistic Guide Finished size: 6″ x 6″ Without seeds and soil there would be no harvest to celebrate – but what about the tools that we use to prepare the soil and transport the harvest? This card celebrates these things. On this card, I used preprinted designer paper with [...]
Easy Collage Card for the Adventurer
By: Melanie Smith, Artistic Guide Finished Size: 4.25″ x 5.5″ This card was inspired by the grapes that grow in the beautiful Hawkes Bay region where I live. There are vineyards absolutely everywhere – even on the former site of our local 1/4 mile drag strip (much to my husband’s dismay). But so many people [...]
Good Wine card for the Adventurer
Good Wine By: Melanie Smith, Artistic Guide Finished size: 6″ x 6″ With this card, I made my own mini designer paper – choosing my inks and colour intensity to achieve exactly the results that I was looking for (bear in mind that this is a third draft of this card and I knew what I [...]
July Sketch
July Sketch Card By: Regena The sketch card this month is so versatile and fun! Lines intersect to create visual division in the card, with circles and rectangles for added interest. Our Artistic Guides certainly enjoyed working with this sketch. The sketch is a great one to use scrap paper sitting in your stash! How about flowers? Chipboard? Ribbon? [...]
June Sketch Card
Oh my goodness! Can you believe it’s June already? Where has 2009 gone? This month our exclusive sketch card, designed by Regena, is long and skinny with circles and squares. (And you thought you wouldn’t use geometry after high school!) Our guides share a variety of interpretations with you. Instead of all long and skinny, some [...]
Dusting the Color
For months now I’ve been struggling with my art and the creative processes. There are so many products on the market, it seems there is a doodad for this and a doodad for that; a tool for this and a tool for that; inks for this, paints for that; and, a patterned paper for just [...]
Welcome new advertisers!
Stamper’s Quest welcomes three new advertisers to our magazine: Articus Studios, RubbaDubbaD00, and Sunday International. Articus Studios is a terrific source for bookmaking supplies of all kinds. They carry blank books, binding systems, and books about making books along with all kinds of goodies for collage artists, scrapbookers, and jewelry-makers. Add a few elegant stamps, and this [...]
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