The Mystery Box: My New Fave

 

Hey Friends! I am Sarah Matthews, and I'm excited to share with you how I decorated a watercolor pad and slipcover to give as a gift for the holidays.

I have been in a rut lately with the time change and daily demands at home. So I treated myself. I purchased an extra-large Mystery Box from the Moon & the Maker. It was just the right medicine to get me out of my creative rut and make something fun. It's better than the standard subscription boxes of soap & eye cream in every way because it has a plethora of arts and crafts items to get your juices flowing.

I pulled out the Stonehenge Mini Watercolor Pad (2.5" x 3.75") and the Moonlight Duo tint & hue ink pad in Moonlight White & Nebula Rust from my Mystery Box. I grabbed some cardstock from my stash, three stamps from 100 Proof Press, double-sided tape, and my Versafine Clair Stamp Pad in Glamorous.

Click the link below to watch my process in creating this gift for the holidays.

Click here to watch the video

I was also excited to pick up the Pamela stamp from 100 Proof Press. Mostly because she looks like me and has my signature locs. I'm excited to use this stamp in future creations. :)

I hope you enjoyed this project and will consider getting your very own Mystery Box from the Moon & the Maker.

Supplies:

Stonehenge Watercolor Paper 2.5" x 3.75"

Moonlight Duo in Moonlight White & Nebula Rust

Versafine Clair Stamping Ink in Glamorous Pamela Stamp - 100 Proof Press Botany Cross Section Lg - 100 Proof Press

Botany Cross Section Med. - 100 Proof Press

Pacon Cardstock Scotch Double Sided Tape Gun

Waxed Linen Thread

Bonefolder Ruler

Scissors

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Impossible Things Happen

I didn't know it when I made these two cards for today's post, but yesterday marked the 3rd year anniversary of Kae Pea owning RubberMoon! Being an artist was never a question for her and building a rubber stamp business was a long-time dream. You can read a little more about her on last month's post at Artists Tell Their Stories.

I have people ask me all the time, "How did you get into this? What made you think you could...?" I fell into rubber stamping (and art itself, for that matter) quite by accident. I never thought I could. I certainly never thought I'd be selling my work or exchanging ideas and techniques with other artists! But, from the moment I picked up my first rubber stamp, I was hooked. My first pieces (some of which I still have) were fairly rudimentary and lacked a bit of finesse, but it was fun, so I kept going.

I guess that's the ticket. When you love something, love doing something, don't worry about where it's taking you, just participate in the journey. Because, I never would have expected it, much less thought it, but here I am, little more than a decade after I made my first card, designing and posting for one of the best rubber stamp companies ever. The real bonus has been all of the great friendships I've made in the art world.

And, you know what I have to say about that? That's just ducky! Here's to Kae Pea and the continued success of RubberMoon and Blue Luna Press!!

RubberMoon stamps used:

Paths Through the Woods
Impossible Things Happen
Margarita
That's Just Ducky
Wee Duck
Sprinkles Cube

Day 3 with Lindsay Ostrom-Doodler Extraodinaire!

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 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 3 with Lindsay Ostrom!

Hi there! My name is Lindsay Ostrom and I am a designer of 

stamp art for RubberMoon Art Stamps. I have been designing for over 

30 years now. Man, i'm old.

I love drawing and doodling and do it every day. 

Stamping, well... that is something I don't do too often.

Like I said... I draw the pictures for the stamps you love to

use from RubberMoon. But it has been a challenge and an honor 

to create these mini masterpieces from Lisa's Inchie Arts black

squares and KaePea's Rubbermoon stamps.

Basically, I stamped the image ( for this one I used the Dogwood

stamp and the little polka dotted heart ) and then I used 

some clear embossing powder so that I had a nice raised edge

to color inside. The rest of what you see is my doodling, lettering and 

coloring with Prismacolor pencils.

I do alot of craft fairs and I love to make and sell signs out of 

wood. I chose to do the same with these lovely little 4x4 

black squares. I used a crop-o-dile to punch holes in the board 

and then used rusty wire and beads to make a little hanger.

I used my most favorite and expensive tool, the trusty

paperclip, to twirl the wire and keep the beads from sliding and 

rolling around. I use all kinds of fun glass beads on the hanger.

these Inchie Arts black squares are light weight

enough that they will go through the mail as a sweet little 

gift with not too much postage.

And the Prismacolor pencils as so soft and blendable...

they were a fabulous match for these black art squares.

I love the scribbly look... it's kind of my signature doodle.

For this piece with the stamped heart tree, I used a SIGNO white pen

which is AMAZING on the black squares. 

Love , love , love!!!

 

My next favorite pen to doodle on these black babies

is the Kuretake ZIG Painty Twin pen. You get two colors, gold and 

silver. This is the gold pen here for the Happy Trails

sign. The Little Miss Sunshine stamp was stamped in white

with white embossing powder and then given her

 stripes and color with Prismacolors.

Did you know that gold is the new black?

I LOVE them together!!!

Here is Little Miss Sunshine (happy camper) stamp in the dark of the night. Parked on 

some hill in the middle of a star filled night. Stamped in white 

and embossed with clear embossing powder again. Tons of white ink from

the SIGNO pen and lots of lovely colors from all my 

fabulous PRISMACOLOR pencils. All that pretty glitter on the moon

is the Wink Of Stella clear glitter pen... one of my new fav's .

After I finished all the little beauties, I sealed them with a 

UV spray sealer just to keep the pencil from smearing around. It also

tends to enhance the color in the pencils. I love to use it.

Thanks to Lisa from Inchie Arts

 and Kristen from RubberMoon for this fun project. If 

you wanna see how I used these with some on the spot doodling...

check my blog  http://lindsayostrom.blogspot.com/

and I have a little give away going on featuring 

these super cute little stamped signs.

Until we meet again!!!!

Day 1 with Lisa Lee

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 1 with Lisa Lee - Patterns...and a chalkboard effect

Begin by randomly stamping a 4” black Art Square with the positive paisley drop from RubberMoon KRE 8 TIV Elements set using white pigment ink. 

Once dry, draw over the stamped lines with a Signo white opaque pen.

Using the same white pen, draw open shape patterns within each of the paisley drops. Don’t make them too small as you will be coloring in each of the spaces you create.

Prismacolor pencils work beautifully on the black Art Squares and the lighter colors really stand out – like chalk on a chalkboard! And, if you look carefully each paisley drop has on space that has been colored with either a silver or gold metallic pen as a nod to a favorite artist of ours named Hundertwasser, who used this technique in much of his work!

And if you would like your very own package of black 4” Art Squares, they are available here at RubberMoon!

Hello Dolly by guest artist Shannon Benedetti

Creative Paper Dolls by Shannon Benedetti

If you love paper dolls, doodling, and RubberMoon Art Stamps, then let's get creative and make your own RubberMoon Paper dolls!

You will need the following supplies and stamps:
Dye inkpads of choice

Smooth Watercolor Paper – I used 100 lb.

Coloring medium – I used watercolor pencils.

Here are some of the stamps I used from 
RubberMoon Art Stamps :

• Love this face – kp5172b
• Itty heart – mk169a (little heart for hat)
• Doodle Thing – sc113e (to make the top)
• Dots and Circles – ml205 – (for skirt)
• Shiny star – mk166a (star used in skirt)
• Inksplat - kp5152h (for background dots on tag)
• Be Yourself -db9116C (words)
• Give me Paper - MK479E (used as top)
• Cameron Quote-ML203G- (skirt)
• Little home- db2324D- (top)
• Doll legs- hbhrS10 (available soon)

Once you stamp your selected images, let you imagination fly. Simply draw around your stamped images to create body shapes. I drew the arms, and used a stamp for the legs, but you can draw your own legs and shoes.

For finishing touches, I rounded the corners of my tag, added a fiber tassel,

I used Ranger Glossy accents and Ranger Liquid Pearls to add a bit of 'pop'!

Now you are ready to color and add your own special touches. Have fun!

Here I have done a little step out diagram so you can see the process:

More samples !

Guest artist Shannon Benedetti has been a long time RubberMoon lover! She lives and makes her wonderful creations in sunny Florida.
Thank you Shannon, for sharing your time and talent with us!