Making Gifts with Rubber Stamps

by Sandra McCall and TurtleMe

This innovative guide showcases a variety of techniques for making unique, expressive gifts with rubber stamps in combination with mixed media such as polymer clay, shrink plastic, handmade paper and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1581800819
• ISBN13: 9781581800814
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Northlight
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.5" x 11.0"

Customer Reviews

Terrific !!

I'll keep this short. If you want to take rubber stamps to the next level and learn to make fabulous objects, buy this book and you won't regret it. It's a DEFINITE keeper!!!!

Sandra's book of Wonderful Stamping ideas

This book has become one of my favorites. It is packed full of wonderful ideas and easy to follow instructions. Sandra has gathered a book full of wonderful stamping projects that will make anyone a wonderful gift. Her jewlery ideas are tops. People will stop and wonder where you got some of these pieces. Her directions are easy to follow, and although the projects may look difficult they AREN'T. This book is also a wonderful idea book for stamping teachers. I love this book so much I gave it to my stamping friends as x-mas gifts. A MUST !!!!!!!

Finally, a way to share the riches of talent!

I'll admit it. I'm prejudiced. I happen to think that Sandra McCall is one of the most creative people I've ever met and I've met quite a collection of wonderfully innovative minds since I started stamping. "Making Gifts with Rubber Stamps" has pages and pages of detailed color photos of a variety of projects. The sequential photos, supplemented by clear descriptions, make the projects very easy to understand. There is even a set of drawings on making your own tassels. Helpful hints, such as how to remove acrylic paint from stamps and tips for cutting paper and chipboard, are scattered strategically throughout the book. Sandra also includes several pages of tips at the beginning of the book, discussing the pros and cons of a variety of products. I know one of her favorite places to find art supplies is the hardware store; it leads to very interesting results! Patterns and basic diagrams with measurements are included, but Sandra is careful to explain that these measurements are guidelines, not edicts. A list of suppliers and an a reasonably complete index complete the book. The list of projects includes fancy fan book, simple album, perfect presentation display box*, dowel-spined book, surprise jewelry box, small stationery folio, large portfolio, pocket portfolio, shadow box, pendant purse, burnished metal container, very velvet pouch, fabric pins, EnviroTex pins, clay works, PaperClay medallions, Poly dolly necklace, window to my art, "Light Up Your Life" lampshades, beautiful beads, shrink plastic basics, and shrink art push pins. Oh, and just to tantalize you, Sandra found the best use of H-O railroad scale people that I've ever seen!(* I think that the perfect presentation box is either the same or very similar to something that won Sandra one of the top awards from the juried show at the second ArtFest in Seattle.) I've had the privilege of taking several of Sandra's classes and this book is much like those classes ... you get much more than your money's worth!

MAKING GIFTS W/RUBBER STAMPS

The absolute best in todays deludge market fru fru for rubber. Sandra starts out w/the basics, which the typical reader, no doubt doesn't require, BUT read them anyway. They are fresh, to the point and blessedly breif, not to mention informative for even the pro. Check out her honest reviews od products, and then dive into inspiration, admiration and appreciton of a very talentednm artist. The directions are detailed and filled with detailed photography. If you love rubber, collage, victorian, neuveau, empire, rubber stamps, clay, jewelry, stationary, home decore, boxes, colour and paper, you'll never put this book down. This book should have been titled: Sophisticated Creations for the Eclectic Stamper.

Review of Making Gifts with Rubber Stamps

This book is a must have for anyone who has an interest in rubber stamping! Using a variety of media and all of the supplies that stampers are familiar with, Sandra fashions one creative projects after the next. I have not been able to put the book down since it arrived last week. Good for all levels of stampers, but it will be especially appreciated by those of us who are looking for different and innovative ways to use our stamps. Sandra's ideas are terrific!