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Tips and Techniques for Using Rubber Stamps in Card Making
Tired of spending too much money on impersonal store-bought greeting cards? Making your own homemade greeting cards is about more than just saving money. Giving someone a personalized birthday, graduation, anniversary or holiday card makes the occasion that much more special. They make excellent thank-you cards, Christmas cards, and great invitations for your wedding, shower or party.
In this series of free video clips you ll learn tips and techniques for using rubber stamps to make homemade holiday and greeting cards. Expert card maker Fran Bricken demonstrates several methods of using stamps with ink, colored pencils, markers, watercolors and paints. She explains how to mist the surface to add backgrounds, and shows how to use mini beads, glitter glue, ribbon and even bleach to enhance to look of the cards, as well as how to add embossing to give a three dimensional feel to the surface of the cards. Try these techniques and make a hand crafted greeting card for that special someone on their next birthday or holiday.
Credit: http://www.expertvillage.com/interviews/rubber-stamps.htm
In this series of free video clips you ll learn tips and techniques for using rubber stamps to make homemade holiday and greeting cards. Expert card maker Fran Bricken demonstrates several methods of using stamps with ink, colored pencils, markers, watercolors and paints. She explains how to mist the surface to add backgrounds, and shows how to use mini beads, glitter glue, ribbon and even bleach to enhance to look of the cards, as well as how to add embossing to give a three dimensional feel to the surface of the cards. Try these techniques and make a hand crafted greeting card for that special someone on their next birthday or holiday.
Credit: http://www.expertvillage.com/interviews/rubber-stamps.htm