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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

"Tells readers how to turn everyday materials and objects into custom stamps and printmaking tools . . . The graphics are colorful and inspiring." —Barbara Delaney, Cloth Paper Scissors Artist and popular workshop instructor Traci Bunkers can turn just about anything into an interesting stamp, printing block, or tool. In this book, she shows readers how to see overlooked, everyday objects in a new way, and how to "MacGyver" them like she does. You'll learn to create fifty-two easy-to-use print blocks and stamp tools, all from inexpensive, ordinary, and unexpected materials—string, spools, bandages, flip flops, ear plugs, rubber bands, school erasers, and a slew of other repurposed and upcycled items. The book also shows how to use those simple tools to make gorgeous multi-layered prints and patterns that can be used to enhance journal covers, stationery, fabrics, accessories, and more.

MaryJo McGraw takes stamping a step further! Inside, she'll show you fun, fast and easy ways to create fancier greeting cards, cooler note cards and prettier invitations. &break;&break;Get stamping with more than 30 easy-to-follow, step-by-step projects, ranging from the cute to the wild - with even more "recipes" for exciting variations. You'll learn how to: &break;&break;Layer embossing powders to create smooth enamel, cobblestone, carved stone and other textures &break;Use versatile vellum to create any look you want from cute to country to ethnic &break;Add fresh elements to your cards with sealing wax and beadwork &break;Create a sense of nostalgia with antique finishes &break;Use clay to create beads, "fossils" and other ornaments for your cards &break;And lots more! &break;&break;Mix and match techniques for truly original results. Why, with all the possibilities?you'll have a virtual stamp attack!

Rubber stamping is a creative and colorful way to personalize greeting cards, invitations, and stationery, and even decorate a home with new designs on fabrics and frames, bowls and vases, walls and doors--the newest and most enjoyable way to make your stamp on the world. Acclaimed designer and teacher Dee Gruenig shows how to make rubber stamp designs of all shapes, colors, and textures. Full color.