The ultimate rubber stamping workshop at your fingertips - an exciting blend of 19 innovative projects, boundless inspiration and sound how-to advice. Rubber stampers of all abilities will find themselves turning to The Rubber Stamper's Bible time and time again for essential how-to advice, design tips, projects to make and inspiration that will take their creations to new levels. Talented crafter Francoise Read takes the reader from the must-know basics of tools, materials and key rubber stamping techniques, through to her design and layout secrets. She then moves on to the technique-led projects that introduce new and unusual methods that beginners and intermediate crafters will love, but also ensures a creative level that will inspire and challenge even the most experienced rubber stampers.

Table of Contents

The Basics Equipment: stamps and inkpads, plus combined results Tools: the essentials, plus punches, thermal embossing tools, glues, wire tools and more exciting possibilities. Materials: the embossing powders; glues, colouring mediums etc that take stamping beyond the basics. Papers: what's out there and how to use it. Simple Stamping Workshop back-to-basics guide to perfecting the foundations - inking brush markers accurate positioning masking clear stamps simple embossing Presentation Workshop Basic design: layouts composition presentation Colour schemes: including swatches and finished examples Applying colour: applying inks, chalks, sponging and more Finishing touches: glitter, ribbon, charms, eyelets etc Creative Workshop 19 step-by-step, technique-led illustrated projects (mostly cards), plus a gallery of samples each for further creativity Acetate Bleaching Brayering Chalks Collage Cut Away Decoupage and 3D Decoupage Direct to Paper Embellishing Masking Metal Foil Multi Embossing Pearl Effects Resist Embossing Shadow Stamping Shrink Plastic Style Stones Vellum Velvet Paper Suppliers; Acknowledgments; Index

About the Author

Francoise Read has been stamping for over 11 years, has and designed over 300 stamps for the UK and US craft markets. She has launched, among several craft materials, a paper collection for Paper Adventures. She contributes stamping and general papercrafting projects regularly to Crafts Beautiful, plus Craft Stamper and Practical Crafts, and demonstrates for retail and trade shows. This is her second book, but the first for D&C. She lives in Reading, Berkshire, UK.