http://www.rainbowstampers.com Just another WordPress weblog Sun, 01 Feb 2009 19:28:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I went on a mini ATC binge today. I've been wanting to play with some of my new stamps for a while, and hadn't yet had any projects in mind for which to use them. Ever since I started making ATCs, I dreamed of making a traditional deck of cards. ... http://www.rainbowstampers.com/2009/01/alice-in-atc-land/ After spending a year and a half on Blogger, using a theme with minimal alterations that I wasn't generally thrilled with, I'm pleased to welcome you to our new website! By 'our', I mean mine and Robert's new website. Perhaps you know us, or followed us at our former site, ... http://www.rainbowstampers.com/2009/01/a-quick-techie-update/ Stampscapes are an amazing brand of stamps which combine seamlessly to create beautiful scenes and landscapes. I took a class a couple of years ago from Ken Pesho in Arizona. Ken is an incredible artist and a great teacher. Here are some examples of my own scapes. All of the ... http://www.rainbowstampers.com/2008/12/i-heart-stampscapes/ This is a thank you card I made today. I used stamps from a couple of Dee Gruenig's sets. The style is very much Dee's, as I drew from her vertical inspiration cards for the design. I used a few stamps from the Hot Air Balloons set, as well as ... http://www.rainbowstampers.com/2008/12/thank-you-card-albuquerque-style/ Now that my first semester of grad school is over, I've found myself full of creativity. Last week I headed over to my favorite stamp store here in the valley for some Stampscapes classes. Had a great time making cards, and have gotten more independent and broken out my own ... http://www.rainbowstampers.com/2008/05/going-stampscaping/ As promised in my recent post, here are a few ATC cards I made recently. For each, I used magazine pictures I liked to decoupage backgrounds. I then attached a single word to each. http://www.rainbowstampers.com/2008/05/atc-samples/ Just to give fair warning, this site is currently undergoing pretty major changes. Besides stamping and crafting in general, one of my hobbies is, for lack of a better way to put it, web design. I'm by no means educated in this area, and don't do it for a living ... http://www.rainbowstampers.com/2008/03/website-update/ ATCs, or artist trading cards, are very popular with artists and stampers. There are 2 simple rules to follow when creating ATCs: they must be 2 1/2 by 3 1/2 inches and they must be traded, never sold. The rest is up to the individual artist. ATCs can be very ... http://www.rainbowstampers.com/2008/03/atc-time/ I've now officially added Scrapbook Expo to the list of things I've experienced in life. I used to be under the impression that Scrapbooking offered a nice crossover to those of us who prefer rubber stamping, but now I'm not so sure. The Orange County fairgrounds had two large buildings ... http://www.rainbowstampers.com/2008/02/gone-scrappin/ It would appear that it's been a nearly four months since I've posted anything on this site. Seriously. And holy cow, that's a pretty intense hiatus, especially considering this blog has only four blog entries (well, five now) to its name. It's not that I haven't been stamping. In fact, ... http://www.rainbowstampers.com/2007/12/this-is-sort-of-stamp-related-but-not-really/