The Great Rubber Stamp Book: Designing * Making * Using (Paperback)

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Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

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 --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Description

“The author...knows how to cram a book full of enticing color photos of more art projects based on rubber stamp designs than could easily be imagined....Her ideas extend well beyond repetitive designs....A colorfully-illustrated and lively art activity resource for the discerning teacher.” —SchoolArts.

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Sterling (December 31, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0806913983
• ISBN-13: 978-0806913988
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 8.5 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,105,064 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

29 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars not too great, May 23, 1998

By A Customer

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., February 3, 2000

By A Customer

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!, September 27, 2000

By A Customer

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.