Art Nouveau Christmas Card

Happy holidays everyone!





This card was made with Martha Stewart paper punches, Copic Markers for coloring, gelly roll glitter pen, and rubber stamps by
The Enchanted Gallery.



PS. New rubber stamp sheets are coming soon!

Cute Animals and Cat Wood Mounted Rubber Stamp 25% off Sale

All wood mounted rubber stamps found in the animal stamps section at www.TheEnchantedGallery.com are on sale for 25% off. Including these cute Stampabilities House-Mouse, cats and bunny rabbit designs. They can be found on

this page.

Rubber stamping in Friendly Plastic Tutorial

Just wanted to let everyone know there is a new tutorial page on my site. This tutorial shows you how to rubber stamp on friendly plastic, place it into a pendant bezel blank, sealed with Resin:


Click here to go to the full tutorial.




There are also a growing number of bezel pendant blanks (by Amate and Lisa Pavelka), bottle caps, Friendly Plastic strips, Magic Glos UV Resin and other jewelry making supplies available at:


Jewelry making supplies for polymer clay, friendly plastic, resin, collage artists and more!







Happy Crafting!

Cat Rubber Stamp Birthday Card Copic Markers Domino Glitter Pendant

I couldn't help but fall in love with this adorable Fluffles the Cat clear stamp set from Stampendous. I decided to stock some cuter animal stamps from other companies on my site. I also enjoyed playing with the clear stamps, which have their plus and minuses in comparison to regular rubber stamps. I like the quality and fine detail you can achieve with rubber stamps, but it's also cool using clear stamps because you can see where you're stamping. This set has a ton of customizing options to put whatever you want on the cat. Check it out!



I stamped the cat, then the party hat, then put the balloon in it's hand, and a birthday cake to seal the deal -



I colored the image with Copic Markers. These are pricey, alcohol based markers, but I've found them to be totally worth the money. They blend very nicely giving you a watercolor painted look.





Stamped onto clear acrylic domino and colored with glitter glue:


The new animals and nature theme rubber and acrylic clear stamps section is here at:
http://www.theenchantedgallery.com/animals

Paper Dolls with Rubber Stamped Faces

These art dolls were created by crafter Jessica Yambao using doll templates and rubber stamps from The Enchanted Gallery. You can check out what Jessica currently has for sale in her etsy shop here.


The Enchanted Gallery has an "angel company" policy, meaning you can sell your crafts made using my
free paper doll templates and/or using my rubber stamps.

Happy crafting!

Flower Blossoms, Leaves and Domino Fairy Flora Rubber Stamps

Added a couple new stamp sheets, plus new sections around the site this past week. I'm currently learning more about jewelry making and UV resin. Hopefully my projects will turn out well and I'll share those asap. For now here's some images of the new stamp sets!











Rubber stamps available at The Enchanted Gallery

Stampbord May/June 2010 Featured How-To Tutorial!

A step by step tutorial for this:

Can be found at the
Stampbord website.

After May/June 2010, you can find it in their
past how-to archives.

If you're new to stampbord, it's a really nice clay coated board which is very sturdy and can be used with almost any stamping inks, paints and other coloring media.

Ps. I'm working on adding a TON of new sections to my website. I'll try to be a good blogger and put updates up asap ;)

Art Nouveau Poppy flower fairy queen theme rubber stamp set:

I'm nuts about flowers and Poppies are my favorite. I always have my camera in my purse as soon as spring hits. I stop to admire every blossoming tree in my path. My computer is flooded with a bazillion images of flowers from local gardens, parks, trees in my yard etc. I'm not sure why it took me this long to make a sheet dedicated to my favorite flower, but I hope you enjoy it too :)



Rubber stamp sheet #Popp-M03 available at The Enchanted Gallery

Flower ladies and anime girls rubber stamps for Copic marker coloring

New rubber stamps designed with a bit more open space to allow for shading and coloring with markers or inks. I recently tried Copic markers (an alcohol based marker available in over 300 colors) and was very pleased with the results. This stamp sheet was made with those who want to play with coloring and card making in mind.



I'm moving this week, but I'll try to get to making example art as soon as I unpack. For now
Rubber stamp sheet #Mrkr-M00 is avaiable at The Enchanted Gallery!

New cute fantasy art astrology zodiac sign domino pendant rubber stamp set!

I love trying to help people make money from their craft hobby. Domino jewelry making has been a consistently popular way to do so. Here's another set created with those who would like to supplement their income by selling domino jewelry in mind.

Other than just placing your crafts for sale on Ebay, Etsy or your own website with a general handmade jewelry description, it's also good to think about what key words are bringing your customers to you. For example, with this set it would be wise to be as specific as possible with each title - such as "Virgo Zodiac Astrology Sign Pendant Jewelry" to help buyers and search engines find your listing. When making listings on your own website, google is your best friend and I highly recommend loading your title and image descriptions with item specific keywords so you show up in image searches.



These example art pendants were made using StazOn ink, Stampbord (a sturdy 1" x 2" white clay coated material) and markers (Marvy Le Plume II or Tombow both work well on Stampbord surface, but not on a plastic domino.)




These rubber Stamps available now at: The Enchanted Gallery! (Sheet #Astr-M01

Distress Ink Cloudy Sky Backgrounds using masks/stencils (+Hi, I'm back!)

Hello everyone, long time no blog! I'm feeling better and taking advantage of it by getting crafty. I will have at least 3 new rubber stamp sheets to share with you all in the coming weeks.

For now, check out this easy way you can add clouds to your rubber stamp art using distress ink pads (colors used were broken china and faded jeans), a mask (stamp your main image on paper and cut it out), a stencil (draw a bumpy cloud ridge shape and cut it out too), and use a sponge/dauber to apply your distress inks.

Here's what it looks like in progress:



Here's a finished artist trading card using this technique:

(The ATC measures 2.5"x3.5", the Halloween Cat and Fairy rubber stamp was colored with Marvy LePlume II markers. I added some white highlights to the clouds and moon with a white pastel/chalk pencil.