Day 2 With Barb Rogers-Travel by Night

Celebrate our new product launch….with Inchie Arts

As you know, we carry several different sizes of the popular Inchie Arts Art Square products. And when they decided to launch their new 4” black Art Squares they invited us to announce and sell it first. 

In fact, it was one of our artists (you know who you are SC!) that nudged Inchie Arts to introduce this particular size and color.  To celebrate, we invited a handful of our designers and artists to let creativity fly with the new 4” black Art Squares. 

Every day from now through Saturday we will be posting amazing creations from Lisa Lee, Barb Rogers, Lindsay Waltman-Ostrom, Sunny Carvalho, Jessica Sporn and Kristen Powers.
And on the Inchie Arts blog, ALL IN AN INCH, Lisa will be sharing lots of techniques and tips for all sizes of black Art Squares from 1" to 4".  

A few things you may not know about black Art Squares:

·        they are made from 100% cotton (not paper)

·        they are a super black with the 'black' sourced from natural ebony

·        they are a perfect 4 ply substrate for direct art application especially acrylic paints, white and metallic detail pens, colored pencils, Pan Pastels, stamping and embossing with white or light colors, chalk board style work and photo creations.  

Day 2 with Barb Rogers - Travel by Night

 I had So much fun creating this project using Rubbermoon Stamps and Inchie Art Squares.  Ive been lucky to use Inchie Art Squares in many of my past projects, but this is the first time to create with the 4x4 Black Square Matboard. I just loved using this product, and as always, fun and creative projects using Rubbermoon Stamps are endless.

Below, I will show and list the Stamps and Products used in this Project.

4x4 Precision Cut Black Matboard Squares

Inchie Art Squares  are Perfect for mixed media, watercolor and stamping/coloring on small format Art Projects.

In each project, I used two of the Rubbermoon Stamps of my own design.....

(1) GO BUG

(2)PARTY ON WHEELS

(3)Bunting (large)

Instead of using the tradition Black colored Ink, this project called for stamping with White Gesso on to the Black Matboard Surface. I love to just show partial images on my pieces, as I did above with the "Go Bug" Stamp, as if the Beetle is driving off of the edge of the Matboard.  I think this adds fun, and shows a sort of "movement" with these Stamps on wheels . Smooth a thin layer of gesso onto a flat surface. I use my Ultimate Red Rubber Pallete as a surface for spreading out the Gesso in order to to get just the right amount on to the stamp. (Do not use too much Gesso, and test it before stamping on to the Art Square). Let the Gesso then dry.

After image is dry, pick out some fun colors that will compliment the black background and white gesso. Paint away!!!

This particular Stamp, I use in many of my Projects and Paintings to Create Stars in the Sky. It is an Exclusive Rubbermoon Stamp through the Rubbermoon Mail Club. Please clink on this link, and find out more information about being part of a fun creative group.

(1)COMET

(2)Half Moon Ornament

(3)Party on Wheels

(4) Sending Moon Beams (Exclusive Rubbermoon Mail Club Stamp)

(1)New Moon

(2) Exclusive Rubbermoon Mail Club Stamp...Stars

The New Moon stamp on the Black Art Square surface takes a simple technique. First, apply the New Moon stamp on to the Black Matboard and let dry. Then fill in the center of image with White Gesso and dry again.  Stamp another time, using Black Ink in order to show a face on the white image. Then paint on your accents. 

I hope you enjoy using the Inchie Arts Black 4' art squares and Rubbermoon Stamps as much as I enjoy them!  Thank you so much and HAPPY CREATING!

TIL NEXT TIME, BARB

"LET IT SNOW" / RUBBERMOON STAMPS AND IMAGINE CRAFTS CROSS PROMO!

IMAGINE Crafts and RubberMoon Art Stamps are excited to share with you the amazing projects that our design teams have created to kick off the Holiday Season! Over the next few days, we'll be sharing with you inspiration and techniques using IMAGINE Crafts' line of ink products¬†featuring rubber stamps from¬†RubberMoon. Be sure to visit the IMAGINE Crafts and RubberMoon blogs daily for more projects and ideas!

"LET IT SNOW!!!"

What fun it was to create this painting using Rubbermoon Stamps and Art Supplies from Imagine Crafts. This project was created using only stamps as images.  Below are the Stamps I used in the Painting and also the Supplies  from Imagine Crafts.

The "Let it Snow" painting was created on a 12x6 deep profile cradle board. 

(1)GO BUG- ART STAMP

(2)PARTY ON WHEELS- ART STAMP

(3)LET IT SNOW

(4)SON OF FROSTY

(5)STRING AND LIGHT

(6)SMALL XMAS TREE

(7)SNOWY TREES

(8)PARTY HAT SANTA

(9)STRING O LIGHTS (not pictured) 

IMAGE CRAFTS/TSUKINEKO SUPPLIES ABOVE

Next I will share some images of the process....

I started by Mounting my favorite "text" Scrapbook Paper then gessoed with a light wash in order to be able to stamp onto the cradle board.

The Stamping Process....

This particular project called for quite a bit of "masking" during the process. (sorry, this pic is blurry). I wanted to insert the Santa Party Hat stamp into the window of the Camper. Obviously, the stamp was larger than the window...so I created a space where the stamp was to show through.  I also used the "masking" process for the trees in the back seat of the car, and also for the trees in the background of the painting, as shown below.

After Masking

Stamping Process Nearly Completed

After Stamping was finished, I chose my favorite Acrylic Colors to make the piece come alive. 

To accomplish the fun Snow Flake effect..I randomly dotted the entire painting with a white Poster Paint Sharpie Pen.

Last but Certainly not Least...I sprayed the entire painting with IMAGINE CRAFT'S "SHIMMER", to give the piece a glimmering "after the snow" feel. 

As with most of my pieces, I painted the sides of the cradle board and then varnished. It is now ready to enjoy for the Holiday Season!! Happy Holidays to You!

CELEBRATING THE WANDERLUST LIFE!

WANDERLUST BUNTING

FLY

LET'S GO!

WRITE SOON

PARTY ON WHEELS

MISSING YOU - LOVE LETTERS

I absolutely love Buntings! They bring such celebration and festivity to all occasions. Or Buntings can bring joy to ANY TIME  that is not even a special occasion at all. I use them in quite a few of my Art pieces and many times incorporate Rubbermoons own stamp, Large Bunting in some of my Vintage Trailer Paintings.  In this particular Bunting,  I am also introducing my first few Stamp Designs for Rubbermoon Stamp Company and along with that a Wonderful Word Stamp "FLY" designed by fellow Creative Team Member, Nancy Curry.

My New Stamp Designs Above and Nancy Curry's "FLY"

I will try to give some what of a step buy step tutorial on the making of this Bunting. It mainly amounts to quite a bit of Cutting and LOTS of Rubbermon Stamps....and that is what we LIKE! I will list all the stamps I used for this project at the bottom of the post.

To give the Bunting some "substance", I gathered 3 pieces of Card Stock and Taped then together underneath with Wide Clear Packing tape to make a horizontal backing for the Bunting. I then used an already existing Bunting which I took from my very favorite publication, FLOW Magazine. I laid the Flow Bunting on top of the taped Card Stock.

I carefully traced around the Bunting with pencil, using a ruler to make sure the lines are straight.

After tracing the existing Bunting on to the Card Stock, I then carefully cut it out along the traced lines.

This Bunting consists of 5 different Flags. I then picked out 5 cool coordinating pieces of Scrapbook paper from my supplies. 

I placed the first piece of Scrapbook Paper under the Flag on the left hand side then cut it out also. Repeating each piece of Scrapbook paper for the remaining Flags on the Bunting. After tracing and cutting, I attached the Scrapbook Flags to the top of the Card Stock Backing.

The Bunting will look like this after pasting the Scrapbook paper to the backing. I promise in Real Life it doesnt look this blurry...promise.

Next comes the FUN part! I chose close to 20 different Rubbermoon Stamps to create fun images on my Bunting Flags.

For this particular project, I didnt want to paint the stamps. Instead I used Newspaper type print for Stamping,  and then cut each one of them out to apply onto the Bunting Flags.

On this Flag, instead of cutting out the stamped image, I added black Photo Corners to give it a Vintage Feel.

The Completed Bunting

These are all of the Rubbermoon Stamps I used for this project. I apologize some of them are sort of Messy. I play with them quite a bit! Below I will list all of these very fun Stamps. You can go straight to the Website to order your stamps to make The Wanderlust Bunting or you can pick out your own Themed Bunting too!

(1)CUTE SCOOT

(2)WANDERLUST

(3)GO BUG

(4)LET'S GO

(5)PARTY ON WHEELS

(6)MOD MARKS

(7)FLY

(8)GNOME

(9)LET'S GO- LUGGAGE

(10)BURST

(11) BLANK BANNER

(12)WRITE SOON

(13)PENCIL

(14)BUNTING- LARGE

(15)SIZZLING SUN

(16)ITTY BITTY HEART

(17)LIL GUY

(18)3 ENVELOPES

(19)"DO NOT BEND" ENVELOPES

TILL NEXT TIME- BARB

Moonlight Vintage Trailer Holiday Art

Paint Over Collage Art
I had so much fun creating this small Holiday piece of Art.  I found it only fitting that my first blog post as a Rubbermoon Creative Team member be one including a Vintage Trailer traveling under the starry Moon. Please follow along and I will demonstrate my ideas and technique.

Materials
I used just a few simple materials along with 3 Rubbermoon Stamps. This very cute tiny 3 inch Matboard Square came from a cool retailer, Inchie Arts LLC.  I coupled it along with a small wooden Easel making a fun display.  You can use paint, water color pencils, markers etc. to add color to your Holiday Art.
I will post the Rubbermoon Stamps used later in my demonstration.

Collaged Matboard

I feel that collaging underneath Art Work adds interest and fun to creating. For this piece I used Text from an Old Book and a Map of course.

Rubbermoon Stamps

The main Stamp in this Holiday Art is the wonderful Vintage Trailer: AIRLYTE
The second is a very cool Christmas Tree stamp: Tree w/ Lights db2590e.
Last but certainly not least is the tiny version of the very popular "New moon" These will be available on Rubbermoon Etsy Shop soon.
Be sure to lightly Gesso before stamping onto your Matboard.

Making it Christmas Art

Now comes the really fun part. Making it into Christmas Art of your own!  I did this by drawing a Christmas tree on top of the Trailer and adding a string of Christmas Lights to the side. I was very lucky to find the text, "Merry Christmas" from an old book and I pasted it to the matboard, outlining it using a graphite pencil.  After this,  just paint onto the Matboard or use markers to make it "your own" work of Art. I dotted the sky around the moon with a White Paint Sharpie marker to create tiny stars around the little moon.

Merry Christmas Vintage Trailer

Once again, a pic of the final piece. I had so much fun and hope you do too!
Until next time! -BARB