Beautiful cards, invitations, picture frames, photo albums, doors, vases, walls, fabric -- almost anything you can dream off Use brush markers to make a stamp of beautifully blended tones. Try different techniques to mask, streak, or fade out an image. Experiment with a number of backgrounds, like plaids, rainbows, landscapes, and florals. Then apply any or all of the methods to chairs, boxes, clocks, planters, pillows, lampshades, quilts, and all kinds of other surfaces.
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With her trademark wild hues and bold graphics, "the head cheerleader of rubber stamping" (as she's been hailed) has filled a very colorful book with loads of innovative techniques. No surface is immune to her irrepressible stamping enthusiasm: in addition to paper, she stamps on glass, wood, walls, doors, fabric, and home accessories; she even uses glossy adhesive paper to create unique stamp stickers. Even experienced stampers can learn a few tricks: creating landscape imagery or "wallpaper" backgrounds; achieving airbrush and watercolor effects; using rubber-cement resist techniques; making dimensional pop-up greeting cards; as well as spattering, sponging, and texturing. Gruenig's colors are so vivid and her designs so eye-catching that it's hard not to feel cheerful just looking at them. --Amy Handy
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29 of 31 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
not too great,
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This review is from: The Great Rubber Stamp Book: Designing * Making * Using (Paperback)
This was the first book I bought on stamping, and it almost turned me off to the craft. There is little guidance and no step by step instruction in this book. I still have no idea how to get the looks achieved in the book. As a beginner, I cannot recommend this book- I suppose the advanced stampers out there can glean some ideas from the book, but as a beginner, I'm totally lost as to completing the projects in this book.
18 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Good for examples and little else.,
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This review is from: The Great Rubber Stamp Book: Designing Making Using (Hardcover)
If you want pictures of stamp art this is a good source. If you want a book to teach you technique and expand you're stamping ability, don't waste you're money here.
12 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Yikes - REALLY BOLD!,
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This review is from: The Great Rubber Stamp Book: Designing * Making * Using (Paperback)
If you like REALLY BOLD colors and patterns then this would be a book for you, but most people will find it much too harsh I think. The book is primarily brayer techniques that seem like they are designs of 2 decades ago (in color and style). There are some good tips to learn from the book, but the design style put me off so much that I found I didn't want to read it much. I'd say keep looking for other stamping books instead of this one.
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