This beautiful book provides a complete guide to printing with rubber stamps. Beginning with a foreword by the artist Rob Ryan and a short history of rubber stamping, it then explains the technical basics: how to cut your stamp, mask prints, make your own printing pads, clean your stamps (making more artwork as you do so!) and what equipment to use. At the heart of the book are forty inventive projects that will inspire readers to create their own rubber stamp art. These include making typefaces and repeat patterns, mail art, creating stickers and labels, printing on t-shirts, making portraits, and translucent and 3D prints. Also covered are other printing approaches such as roller printing, and printing with clay and plaster. This highly accessible book will appeal to creatives and crafters of all ages.

Crafts teacher Judy Ritchie covers inks and inking, papers, masking, borders, mats, embossing, punches, paper folding, and other 3-D effects in this all-inclusive look at rubber stamping. Full-color projects focus on the method, process, or idea under discussion. The book features 150 illustrations, a glossary, and a source guide.

Take an exciting journey into printing with custom-carved stamps! In this complete stamp-carving workshop, Julie Fei-Fan Balzer covers every aspect of creating and using rubber stamps, including carving linear and curved designs, alphabets, complex and repeating geometrical shapes, and image transfers. After carving your own unique stamps, you'll also learn: • How to combine and layer stamps into original designs. • How to design stamps that work together as well as individually. • How to create stamps that combine with or enhance other stamps (hand carved or commercial). • And how to create complex, layered effects that resemble screen printing. This book also includes simple projects that explore various applications for stamping, including printing on different surfaces such as fabric, leather, paper, and canvas. Find your "authentic" design voice and get carving today!

A world of creative jewelry design at your fingertips! Now you can combine the self-expressive qualities of rubber stamping with the elegance of jewelry-making. It's easier than you think! Sharilyn Miller provides all of the tips and techniques you need inside. She clearly illustrates the basics of jewelry-making, then provides step-by-step guidelines for creating beautiful embellishments with rubber stamps and easy-to-find materials, including polymer clay, decorative fibers, shrink plastic, foam, copper and glass. You'll also find 20 exciting wearable art projects, complete with easy-to-follow instructions and attractive full-color photographs. Throughout, Miller helps you craft imaginative, attractive pieces of jewelry that are ready to wear or give as gifts!

This book will let you take your stamping beyond the ordinary with hot tips, new techniques, and easy-to-follow steps.

Grab your favorite rubber stamps and have fun making the prettiest cards, the most clever gift bags, the sweetest tags and more! 38 designs include birthday cards and invitations with flowers eyelets and metal oval frames, vellum flower tags.

Easy to follow steps for a beginner: helpful hints, new techniques and a myriad of ideas, even for seasoned stampers. Master the beautiful and fun art of rubber stamping with 3 easy steps.

Talented paper artists capture the essence of this ultracreative medium with 38 new designs, featuring innovative rubber stamp applications for a variety of fun and functional tags. Quick and easy to make, tags are the perfect complement for scrapbook pages, greeting cards, and other papercrafts. Crafters' playful sides will come out in full force when they apply these new rubber stamping techniques to tags of all sizes. Features Produced for Leisure Arts by Banar Designs 38 new designs utilize creative rubber stamping techniques From fun to functional, projects range from small price tags to large shipping tags Features winners from a design contest co-sponsored by Banar and ARTbar in Santa Ana, Calif., a popular stamping studio.