Great Rubber Stamping: Ideas, Tips and Techniques [Hardcover]

Judy Ritchie (Author), Jamie Kilmartin (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 20, 2001

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, and includes three cropping tools/templates.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 144 pages
• Publisher: Hugn Lauter Levine Associates; 1st edition (March 20, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0883633353
• ISBN-13: 978-0883639337
• ASIN: 0883639335
• Product Dimensions: 10.5 x 10.4 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,377,013 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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57 of 58 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars BEYOND STMAPING 101!, May 28, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Great Rubber Stamping: Ideas, Tips and Techniques (Hardcover)

This book took me beyond "Stmaping 101" to a level of sophistication that I yearned for. Beginners take note... the subtitle is "Ideas, Tips and Techniques". While the authors cover everything from basics to complex, the "how-tos" do not include step-by-step illustrations. Some knowledge and/or experience with rubber stamping helps. However, I would consider myself in the novice category... PRIOR to reading and working with this book. It has helped me to polish techniques, add elegance, and gave new angles of creativity that I thought only possible through taking expensive classes. Beautifully illustrated. A resource that I will continually turn to for its abundance of "ideas, tips and techniques".

29 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars More for Intermediate or Advanced Crafters, June 16, 2003

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Amy Hilliard (VA, United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Great Rubber Stamping: Ideas, Tips and Techniques (Hardcover)

On first glance at the table of contents, this book may seem to be for crafters of all levels, but I think it is best for those who already know how to stamp. Overall I think this book is useful, but it has a few drawbacks mixed in with some good advice and projects.

The first 17 pages of the Introduction could have been condensed into just a few. Also, I would have rather had pictures of the tools and techniques mentioned in this section, rather than just representations of finished products. I did think that the second half of the introduction was more informative. I especially liked the section on the elements of design.

In the Simple Stamping section Ritchie does not clearly list materials or take you through the stamping process at the time you most need it. I can understand not doing this later in the book for the more advanced projects, but I wish she would have included more pictures of intermediate stages at this point. You might ask yourself how hard can stamping be? However, to newbies such as myself who do not know much about inks and papers and such, more information would have been helpful. I do like the general tips she has scattered throughout the book.

The last section of projects is titled Frames and Backgrounds. This section contains the more advanced stamping projects. It is broken up into three smaller sections titled Embossing, Punch Art, and Special Effects. These projects all involve different layers of paper, ribbon, charms. By the way, all the projects in the book involve stamping on paper, but some of the techniques could be easily translated into projects using other materials.

In the appendix there is an Illustrated Glossary which is very nice and a list of sources. These sources should be fairly recent because the book was published in 2001.

I think people new to stamping may want to learn basic techniques from another book, but this book would be a good one to go back to after gaining some experience. This would make a nice addition to the collection of intermediate and advanced stampers because Ritchie has some really nice projects.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars not as good as expected, October 14, 2005

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Princess Maria (Mexico) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Great Rubber Stamping: Ideas, Tips and Techniques (Hardcover)

The book has nice photographs and examples of stamping, but doesn't have enough information about the techniques nor the supplies used. I didn't like it. I thought I would learned everything for stamping but this is not the right book. I think I would keep searching in other books.