Rubber Stamped Greeting Cards
We absolutely love rubber stamps. They are so versatile. My girlfriend makes lovely cards by embossing a stamped image with silver or gold paint on off-white cardstock and envelopes. Antony makes similar cards but does not emboss them. He makes his cards out of dark green, burgundy, navy, and black cardstock with white, cream or light blue ink. They make wonderful gifts.
There are so many themes represented by the images on rubber stamps. Some of our favorite themes are animals, gardening, plants, seasons, celestial, letters, numbers, angels, hearts, geometric, and more I can't remember. It is hard for me to stay away from the rubber stamp isle in the craft store, just last week I found a darling stamp of a black kitten with wings and a halo. Scarlett's new kitten, Prince, is black and looks just like the stamp. She will love it.
When we can't find just the right stamp, we make one! Craft stores sell large rectangular sheets of rubber that can be used to carve out rubber stamps. These sheets are reasonably priced. Of course, the old standby, rubber erasers, is the material of choice when you need to carve a small stamp in a pinch. I buy the economy-packs of pink rubber erasers at a discount store for pennies and carve away!
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