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Wednesday, September 30, 2026

NEW product Darkroom Door - Catch of the day..

Surprise: new product released at Darkroom Door...
more surprising is that Darkroom Door is back in business, now from the UK.

One of the newest release: CATCH OF THE DAY -
DDRS257

All the additional stamping is done with stamps from the DDRS047 Correspondence Set

A postage stamps folder, with faux postage stamps on the inside.
I adhered a torn piece of a gelliprint as a backdrop for the fussycut fish, and added script.

I stamped different stamps from the set to fill in the postage stamps and used part of the same gelliprint as a backdrop. The images were colored with watercolor pencils.

The stamps were stamped onto a colored background, and additional color added with watercolor pencils.
A white acrylic marker around the images makes them pop more.

The background of this card started off as part of a gelliprint from my stash, on which I used punchinella to create texture in the paint on the gelliplate.

I added melted beeswax with a brush to the edges of the card.

I used a heattool to melt the beeswax in areas (as it cools down quite fast) and stamped into the melted beeswax straight away with the "1,2,3,4, once I caught a fish alive ..." text. Repeat this step until you are happy with the embossed look.

Apply perfect pearls gold, silver, red to the surface, which will enhance the effect of the stamping into the beeswax.

The lobster was stamped onto additional cardstock, and fussycut.

Another faux stamps project, now adhered to a card, which I used the postage stamp die to as well, to make it seem punched out of the colored card.

The stamps were stamped onto a colored background, and additional color added with watercolor pencils to make them pop more. Extra white around the images was done with a presicion point applicator filled with white acrylic paint from Golden.

Thursday, January 6, 2022

BIG blub-blubb Whail Wishes for the New year

Happy new year to you all!
A new year asks for a new art journal, isn't it?
So, I made one and filled a spread with an underwater scene, sort of.

Yes.. I played with my gelliplate again ..
Before pulling the prints I stamped in the wet acrylic paint with mostly stamps from the
Sketchy Flowers #1 and Pencil Marks #1 stamp sets.

I've sewn the signatures with a kettle stitch to strengthen the spine.

I've made a journal from A5 gelli prints by folding them vertically, and adhering the back sides to each other to form the spreads inside the book.

These are two of the spreads that need to be filled yet, but has a basic background to start off on for any other happy play day.

I chose this spread as I liked the foliage on these pages.

I stamped in the background with some similar colors, not too dark, and also with second generation stamping.

The main images are stamped with a dark purple, as well as some background foliage and script stamping.

I fussy cut the main images and colored them with very little color.

I wish you "BIG blubb Whale blubb wishes" for the new year!

I still have a lot of spreads to fill.

The back and front cover and spine are covered with a separate print on sturdier paper, adhered to the back of the first and last page ..... as easy as that.
All the edges were torn with the help of a ruler.

... will have to add a closure with a thread and a button I think...

Rubber Dance Stamps:

The Rubber Dance Webshop

Sketchy Flowers #1

Pencil Marks #1

Textured Sea Creatures

Whale Wishes

Old Book Page

Mix A Sentiment 1

Wednesday, July 8, 2020

Fishy booklets for 52 books...

On the Rubber Dance blog two weeks ago:
two recycled booklets I will use as mini art journals.

For my 52books series this is book number 31; a very interesting type of binding: a cover over a spiral binding.

I dissembled the books first, and got rid of both the original end papers inside as that was torn by doing so...

... leaving me with the cover plus spine intact..

.. I covered the outside by adhering half of an A4 gelliprint with muted pink and greenish colors (using a Magenta stencil in case you wonder)... ....

... I brushed some matte medium to the surface to give it some protection...

.. stamped onto it with StaZon blazing red ink..

.. gave it some extra color with green distress ink..

.. added some white with an acrylic marker...

.. and reassembled the booklets using the second and second last page of the book to use as the new end papers on the inside...

DONE...
Hope you like it and give recycling a book a try.. it´s fun..

Rubber Dance Stamps:

The Rubber Dance Webshop

Whale Wishes

Fish Diet

I am entering this in the challenge on

1. series 52 - just a play with creating a book.. 52 of them: a challenge I set to myself - Book 29

For further info on this series : see this post

2. Mini Album Makers

Wednesday, April 1, 2020

Rubberdance color challenge

A new challenge on the Rubber Dance blog today!!

I've made an Art Journal page with the beautiful Whale Wishes set.

I've made the netting myself with some waxed thread.

Get inspired by the following mood board!]

Rubber Dance product:

The Rubber Dance Webshop

Whale Wishes

Own Wings

Wednesday, May 1, 2019

2019 #6 Fish: KIDS collage {by Ellie Knol}

I'm up on the Paper Artsy blog today with this FISH themed project.

Go have a look.. just a sneak peek here;
saves me a lot of time rather than programming it here as well :)

If you join in the themed challenge, you might be the winner !!

I particularly like the boy with the very interesting building as a backdrop!

.. it has a story.. I am sure!

I personally don't know the story, but I can imagine he will be able to tell you lots of stories! Maybe the song in this set was what he sang when fishing...