Rays of Sunshine {published - Rubber Stamp Madness}

Published in Rubber Stamp Madness magazine, Spring 2016 edition. 

I am beyond thrilled to have a couple of cards published in this edition.  This one includes two full pages (plus a little more on a third page) of step by step instructions and photos (pages 13 - 15)!

Using the "painting with glitter" technique (also known as inlaid glitter technique or the kiss cut technique) onto a piece of Sparkle N Sprinkle Super Adhesive Sheet die cut from the Ray of Sunshine cutting plate by Taylored Expressions,  I added the following SNS glitters to create my sun: Cherry Lemonade, Lemonade,  Waterfall, and Rapture Blue.  The glitters were sprinkled onto the exposed adhesive and burnished into the adhesive starting with the lighter colors and finishing with the darker shades.

The Garden Silhouette rubber stamp from Sparkle N Sprinkle was stamped onto a piece of Embossable Clear Acetate with VersaMark and then heat set using Midnight Madness embossing powder.  I fussy cut around the image and adhered it in front of the rays of sun.  Although it's hard to tell in the photo, the silhouette is very sparkly as there is glitter in the embossing powder.

To see the step-by-step photos and complete instructions, you'll need to purchase this edition. :-)

Miss You {published - Rubber Stamp Madness}

Published in the Rubber Stamp Madness magazine, Spring 2016 edition

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I'm so excited to say this was my second card to be published in the Spring 2016 edition!  It's located in the Black & White plus One section.

Steps:

1. Cut piece of white cardstock 2.75" x 5".
2. Cut 4 strips of patterned paper 1.5" x 3.75".  Then cut on the diagonal, point to point.
3. Starting at the vertical center of the white cardstock, place the patterned paper until all the white areas are covered.  Make sure there are no gaps between each of the pieces of patterned paper.  (You may need to move the triangles up or down to get the cardstock covered.)  The patterned paper will go over the edges.
4. Adhere patterned paper onto the cardstock, turn cardstock over to the back and cut off the excess paper from the edges.
5. Stamp the sun image from Unity Stamps onto white cardstock, color with Copic markers, and fussy cut out.
6. Die cut a piece of black cardstock using the Large Octagons dies from Spellbinders.  Cut the octagon in half.
7. Adhere the sun to the black octagon, aligning the bottom of the stamped image with the bottom of the die cut.
8. Mat layered black and yellow cardstock; adhere to white card base toward the top, leaving a space for the sentiment.
9. Adhere strip of black ribbon to bottom portion of the white card base.
10. Die cut the Miss You sentiment (a Die-Versions Sweet Wordlets die) from yellow cardstock and add a touch of glitter to the letters with a Spica glitter pen.
10. Adhere to the ribbon.

Inside:

1. Using the Spellbinders Large Octagons dies, die cut two octagons from the yellow cardstock, one octagon from white cardstock, and one octagon from patterned paper.  Layer on top of each other.
2. Stamp the sentiment, a rubber stamp from Unity Stamps, onto the center of the white cardstock with Distress Ink (Black Soot).
3. Immediately cover with Ranger Clear embossing powder and heat set.
4. Adhere on the inside of the card.
5. Die cut the Little Open Scallop Strip (by My Favorite Things) from patterned paper and adhere to the top of the inside of your card.

If you haven't checked out this magazine and you are a stamper, you definitely should.  Rubber Stamp Madness is the original rubber stamp magazine, started way back in 1978 and it's still going strong.  There are great how-to's as well as lots of other resources.

Rubber Stamp Madness Art Book

RSM just published a new rubber stamp art book called, Stamping All Year Long. The book has over 100 examples of stamp art, including Valentine’s, Easter, Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas cards. Stamp artists share tips on how their card or scene was made. 

At 116 pages, the book is filled with inspirational artwork. 

To order a copy, go to http://rsmadness.com/rsmstore.html and scroll to find the "New Book." Mention my blog (Anne-Made) in the "special instructions" section, when you order. Once there are four mentions of my blog, RSM will send me a complimentary copy. 

Although I don't have any projects in this new book, I love supporting Rubber Stamp Madness in any way I can.  (I will have some projects in the upcoming Spring issue though :-), so stay tuned for that.)

Thanks so much for considering this. 

Published: Rubber Stamp Madness

I'm so excited to have a card published in the Spring 2014 edition of Rubber Stamp Madness, the original stamping magazine.   It's located on pages 23 and 24 and is titled "Old School and Cool".

Here's how I made it.  The background is Tim Holtz's Marbled Stain technique and was created using Distress Stains (Picket Fence, Barn Door, Rusty Hinge, Mustard Seed) and Perfect Pearl Mist (Perfect Pearl).

I stamped the Hero Arts image twice, once directly onto the newly created background and once onto a vintage book page so I could fussy cut out the "typewriter paper".  I heat embossed the sentiment with Gathered Twigs Distress Ink.  Then I cut a slit in the typewriter image where the paper would come through and slid the vintage book paper through.  The idea of using buttons and twine as spools of ribbon came to me during a creative burst :-).

I also embellished the inside a bit.  A page from a vintage book was used to frame the space for a message.  The message area was created using the Cherish punch from Martha Stewart.  A bit more twine carries the old fashioned theme from the front to the inside.

I have to add that I was just as excited seeing the label on the magazine.  It said "Artist-Anne Temple".  How cool is that!

Winter Wonderland

I have to tell you right off the bat that I really like how this card turned out and that it was a happy accident :-).  And, no matter how many times I tried to duplicate it (and I tried quite a few times), I just couldn't.  What I was trying to duplicate is how the edges of the vintage book page tore off right around the image.  So this is definitely a one of a kind!

I created this card by stamping the church image (from Rubber Cottage) with Distress Ink (denim) and heat embossed it with clear embossing powder onto a very old, and somewhat fragile, book page.  Then I did the same thing with the sentiment, which is from Serendipity Stamps.  I had to mask this stamp to get it to stamp on two lines, as the rubber stamp is all on a single line.  I layered this book page onto dark navy cardstock, which is then layered onto another piece of a page from a different vintage book.  A bit of lace has been added between these two layers.

Once I had completed the card, I thought it might look better if I had used VersaMark and heat embossed with blue embossing powder.  So I decided to try and pry off this first book layer.  The edges tore perfectly around the image, and that was it.  It wouldn't budge.  Now I really liked it, but I still wanted to try my other idea.  It did look good with the darker image, but I could never get the edges to tear off so nicely (usually, it also tore into the image itself).  So I took some advice that I'm always giving my husband: be happy with what you've got.  And I am.

This card was also showcased on Rubber Stamp Madness' Facebook page this past Wednesday.