Using Rubber Stamping Tools

Series Summary

Rubber stamping is a wonderful hobby or craft that is used to create a pattern or image on any type of artistic medium. The image can be applied to wood, glass, canvas, metal, or even plastic. Rubber stamps are created by engraving or carving an image from a block or sheet of rubber that is mounted onto wood or acrylic blocks. Rubber stamping is a great way to express your creativity because you can create your own rubber stamps and choose any type of medium to stamp them in many different colors of ink. Rubber stamps also have a practical purpose when used on official documents, for corporate logos, or return addresses on envelopes. Art stamps are fashionable and trendy among the home décor enthusiasts and can be used to decorate a variety of things within the home. They are often used in scrap booking, wall decoration, and fabric decoration.

In this series of expert videos, you will learn the basics of rubber stamping. Get an expert’s introduction to the tools and supplies you need to create your own rubber stamp art and décor. See examples of stamp color, stamping cards, chalk, sponges, q-tips, pens, scrap books, stamps, greeting cards, stamp sets, watercolor pencils, ink, pain brushes, paper cutters, cleaning pads, cleaning solution, glue, double sided tape, flowers, brads, card stock, and colored paper. Learn how to make your own greeting cards with rubber stamping methods. Watch as our expert demonstrates assembly and accenting techniques for creating your own rubber stamp creations.

Video Transcript

" Hi! I am Shelly Cordsen, from Expert Village.com. I am here to talk to you about rubber stamping, which is a huge world and we are going to start with basic tools to get started. First of all you have cards, note cards, I would like to buy value packs where you take your note card, you can fold it in half and you have the matching envelope. It is cheaper to do it that way and a lot quicker. We have stamp set you can go from wooden stamp sets to acrylic stamp sets where you peel them off and stick them on and we will cover that more later in our demonstrations. You need ink. There are all kind of inks, from metallic, fabric, multicolor, regular ink pads, even ink that you do on ceramic tiles, plates and glass. We have coloring tools. We have watercolor pencils, pain brushes, chalk, watercolor paints, markers, pens and crayons. I will show you how to use every one of these in a later demonstration. Naturally, we have got to cut our papers so we have paper cutters and there is such a variety out there you can just find one that you are comfortable with. We have cleaning pads. You can easily use a wet washed cloth, paper towel but when you get into this you want the best of the tools. Glue, you can use glue sticks to get started, double-sided tape very inexpensive. We have what we call Tombo’s double-sided tape. We have got to make it all look pretty with your accents from flowers to brads, eyelets, you name it, endless. And of course you cannot make a card without your color paper. We have cards stock, you can get them in different sizes, they are heavy weight, we have what we call BNT, which is background texture paper, lot thinner. Nowadays, you are getting them where they are dual purposed; two colors on each side. There is so many papers out there you can buy them in packs, chunks, and you name it the world is out there. Another project we will be using is vellum paper. This is a see through thin paper, you can get it printed on. These are what a lot of journaling, wedding announcements. You will print on a computer, feed this through your computer, do all your writing, cut it out and lay on top of the cards and you will see a project using our vellum. Thank you, we will be getting onto our next project. "