Card Ideas that Integrate Rubber Stamping

When a person is inclined to give and express his emotions through creative writing with the use of stationeries and cards, rubber stamping is a good way of supplementing your emotional ideas. Many cards and stationeries to design to supplement your touching messages are available to master. The following are ideas for rubber stamping for cards.

Non-Complicated Rubber Stamped Card

Choose a stamp design and impress it in the midst of a card. For better creativity, a card that is of the same size and shape of your stamp may also be chosen. Larger cards provide enough spaces.

Coloring with your Stamp

This is more appealing, get a stamp design that will become more creative when color is added. Examples may be a big flower or any object of big image. Impress the image onto your card, give time for it to dry and color the image with coloring materials. You can do this as if you are coloring images in a coloring book.

Repeating Stamps

Stamps of different sizes may be used for many times in a same or even different cards. The stamps may be impressed in the corners and at the middle. You may do this randomly or create a shadow effect of the images. Simple messages like thank you can become unique and artistic if only you will widen your imagination. It may be stamped with the use of multiple colors.

Embossing

Embossing is one easy way to make creative output out of the simple stamp designed card. A heat gun, pigment ink, and embossing powder can be used to create an image that is embossed from the facade of the card. Embossing and coloring can be mixed so that the message will create more artistic image.

Stamp Collage

Coloring and embossing an image makes your creativity even more attractive. A fine stamping of image that serves as a background and a heavy stamping of the main image to stress depth of message may also be done.

Stacking Paper

A card stock may be used also for stamping instead of stamping directly on the card after you have stamped the desired image, you can cut the part of the paper with the use of decorative scissors so that the edges are designed. You may add another paper this time with a different shade. Stick with the use of glue the stamped piece to the paper then onto the card. Try to become even more creative as you can.

Different Papers

Aside from regular conventional papers, you may consider using vellum or other textured card stocks. Look for various card types so that you can experiment how to mix and match and discover the many different ways on how to be creative. You may also use cut-out punches to add more artistry to your stamped card. You can punch holes in or in front of the card where you stamp the image so that it will create a different effect.

Decorating the Rubber Stamped Cards

There are many different ways to decorate your cards. Stamping alone will not be enough, you can add some hand-drawn images, charms, stickers, ribbons, or any other materials used in working in scrapbooks. There are unlimited ideas to make your cards as creative as you can because your imagination is needed boundless.