Rubber Stamping Quick and Creative Cards

Mouse with Hearts by Robin Smalley

Stamp image (Great Impressions) onto a 2-1/2 x 2-1/4 inch white panel. Color the mouse with soft oil pastels and the hearts with a marker. Place heart brads over some of the stamped hearts. Cut a black panel ¼ inch larger than the white panel and punch the slits in two corners and place the stamped panel onto it.

Cut out the heart pocket (size to fit card.)

Glue stamped panel inside heart pocket and secure a bow to front. Cut paper background and place on front of card and then glue your heart pocket to front of card.

Thank You Card by Heather Getson, Reader Submission

1. Make a standard sized card of 4.25 x 5.50 inches by cutting an 8.5 x 11 sheet of cardstock in half using your paper trimmer.
2. Measure to find the center of the cardstock and then place a small pencil line at the top and bottom to mark the center points.
3. Insert a scoring blade into your paper trimmer and score between the two pencil marks.
4. Fold on score line.
5. Cut a piece of purple cardstock to an approximate size of 5.50" by 2.25 “.
6. Align on left side of card and mount in place.
7. Cut the patterned paper to an approximate size of 5.50" by 2" and align to the right side of the card and mount in place.
8. Cut a length of ribbon approximately 5.50 inches in length and adhere to center of the card where the two paper seams join.
9. Punch circles using a 1-3/8 inch circle punch, from the ivory cardstock.
10. Adhere the brads through the center of the flowers and the cardstock circles in the desired position.
11. Mount the circles to the left side of the card in the desired position.
12. Adhere the rub-ons to the right side of the card to spell "Thanks" in the desired position.

Make a Wish by Bernardine Farmer

1. Fold blue cardstock to an A2 card. Tear lime green scrapbook paper
along bottom edge of a 3-1/2" x 5" and center on card. Tear bottom edge of a 3-1/2" x 4-3/4" hot pink paper and put it on top of lime green paper.
2. On 3-1/2" x 4" of white cardstock, stamp Penny Black’s Cheesecake Wishes with Versafine Vintage Sepia and color with watercolor pencils. Tear bottom edge.
3. Punch 1/16" holes where the seeds are floating. Add Making Memories Watercolor Brite Flower and Mini Flower brads. Add one brad at the bottom. Adhere Cheesecake on top of pink scrapbook paper.

Hearts by Swirls by Wendy Kerr

Stamp image (Magenta) using black into onto white cardstock.

Color with Sharpie markers (pink, red and dark red.)

Layer onto red cardstock, then a white card.

To add heart brads, use a small hole punch to punch holes in the spot you'd like your brads. Then attach.

Games by Cheryl Rotnem

Cut light brown or beige cardstock to A2 size, cut red cardstock a little smaller.

Next cut off white cardstock to 4" X 3". Stamp the domino, Queen of Clubs and the Bingo card in brown and reds. Take your small brads and punch holes across the free space and put them in the holes. Sponge with brown over the white cardstock.

Mount as shown.

Stamp Credits: Time To Stamp