From: rubberstampers-owner@xmission.com To: rubberstampers-digest@xmission.com Subject: rubberstampers Digest V2 #275 Reply-To: rubberstampers@xmission.com Errors-To: rubberstampers-owner@xmission.com Precedence: rubberstampers Digest Saturday, 15 February 1997 Volume 02 : Number 275 In this issue: [none] Re: RS: What did your Valentine's Day cards look like? (Longish) Re: RS: Pergamano Re: RS: Pergamano - more questions Re: BAGGIE!!! Please respond!!! RS Alice in Rubberland Swap SSS: Valentines Re: RS: Prosposed Saying Swap Ma Vinci's SSS is here!!! RS:Pergamano & Parchment Re: RS: Pergamano Trisha's SS Re: RS: What did your Valentine's Day cards look like? (Longish) New Styles In Stamping [none] Ques. re Paintbox Rainbow Pads Empty messages today? RS:TAN: Happy Birthday Sandy!! RS: PRINT WHEELS See the end of the digest for information on subscribing to the rubberstampers or rubberstampers-digest mailing lists and on how to retrieve back issues. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: owner-rubberstampers@xmission.com Date: Sat, 15 Feb 1997 14:15:14 -0700 (MST) Subject: [none] ------------------------------ From: perlis Date: Sat, 15 Feb 1997 15:22:52 -0800 Subject: Re: RS: What did your Valentine's Day cards look like? (Longish) Mike & Melinda Carmain wrote: > > Hi everyone! I'd love to hear about your ideas for your Valentine's Day > cards. I did two kinds. For one I used bright red cardstock and embossed in > white. I used a large "LOVE" stamp that looked like a postage stamp in the > center and put small hearts all around it. Open it up and it said "Happy > Valentine's Day" in script also embossed in white. > > For the second cards, I used the resist brayer technique using rubber > cement. These didn't turn out as well as I hoped, but I did these for my > kids and they aren't exactly art critics :) I found out this works best > using glossy cardstock and I also found out that I need to use a 6" brayer > instead of a 4" brayer because I had a lot of lines where the 4" brayer > didn't completely cover the card and I had to reroll the ink. I "painted" > hearts on glossy cardstock, used magenta Vivid pad on the brayer, then cut a > little off each side and layered it on white cardstock and also stamped HVD > in script inside the card with the magenta Vivid pad. > > For those who don't know how to do the resist brayering, what you do is > "paint" a design on glossy cardstock with rubber cement. Let it dry > completely. Then ink up your brayer with whatever color you want, brayer > your card, let that dry well and then rub off the rubber cement. I had > problems when I rubbed off the rubber cement that some of the pink ink > transferred from the rubber cement to the card where I was rubbing off the > rubber cement. I guess I need to work more on this technique. Any ideas? > > For my husband, I (shh, don't tell anyone ) broke down and bought him a > card. The sentiments on the card were so much better than I could have come > up with. > > Melinda I must share one I did for my parents - we had a rough Valentine's day last year, because on Feb. 14th my mother was in surgery to have a malignant tumor removed from her left lung, only they had to take out the whole lung, so we ended up celebrating Valentine's Day in March. Nevertheless, she is fine, and we've had a better year knowing the cancer is gone. Also, we're all music fans and/or musicians in my family. Okay, enough background - let me describe the card. I sponged the front in purple, turquoise and pink Marvy markers. On Kromekote I embossed 5 different types of hearts: a scribble heart in Cranberry, a heart made out of a music staff, in purple; a vertically-striped heart in turquoise; a horizontally-striped heart in heliotrope and a smaller vertically-striped heart in dusty rose. I cut them out and poked a hole through the middle of each one. Then I strung blue embroidery floss through the holes, linking each heart, and spacing them apart and in a pattern (some up some down) I mounted them on the card with pop dots. I wrote: Families are held together with heartstrings. Inside, I stamped the guitar player from A La Art, sponged around him, stamped some music notes and wrote: and when Life tugs at those strings, you've taught us to strum along and make music. That's what makes our family so strong. My mom cried (I knew she would) but I felt like I'd captured a very essential feeling. It was also (if I may toot my own horn...?) really beautiful to look at...I left the string (on the outside of the card) dangling about half an inch...it was very effective. I like it when things are assymetrical or out of the paradigms and the string dangling past the end of the card looked good. Sorry for the long post - I had to share...besides, Melinda asked! Lissa ------------------------------ From: Mark Van de Voorde Date: Sat, 15 Feb 1997 14:29:53 -0600 Subject: Re: RS: Pergamano Cheryl, If you do want them, Aleene's sells them through their mail orders. Connie in Milw Especially since I didn't use the Pergamano > tools. I didn't have access to getting them. > > Hope this helps. > Cheryl > -- > ****************************** > Cheryl Simmers > csimmers@erols.com > ****************************** ------------------------------ From: Rbrangel@ix.netcom.com (Kathie Gillaspey/Paper Wings TM) Date: Sat, 15 Feb 1997 14:23:23 -0600 (CST) Subject: Re: RS: Pergamano - more questions > > - Do you need to use Pergamano paper or does some type of vellum work also >(be specific please - I'm just learning about the different papers). Does >Pergamano paper have some quality that a vellum does not? (or are they the >same??) The vellum for Pergamano is a bit different from the UV/Ultra II that I have. It is a bit more transluscent and must have a higher cotton count as it takes pressure embossing better than the UV Ultra. It's also VERY expensive. I've been told that it is only available though the Pergamano people in Canada. > >- I think you are supposed to use a pad under your work. Do you need "their" >pad or does something else work? I took a class, as used their pad, however, the instructor also said that a sponge mousepad also works. I tried this when I got home and it worked great. > >- Where can you buy the paper and equipment? Do any of the list vendors >sell this? I did see this stuff in the Maplewood Crafts catalog but dont' >know anything about it and would appreciate knowing other sources. I got my stuff at my local stamp store (Stamp La Jolla). There are some mail order sources, but I don't know them off hand. Also, it's a VERY time consuming hobby. My first (and only) card took over 3 hours. It was probably the most beautiful thing I've ever made. I mailed it to my Mom for Mother's Day last year....she saves everything. If I had mailed it to someone who later threw it out, I'd have to hunt them down and KILL them!! Kathie Rubber Angel Paper Wings TM PO Box 90582 San Diego, Ca 92169-2582 "Angelic Papers & Accessories to Express Your Creativity" Catalog $2, credited toward purchase of $10 or more ------------------------------ From: baglady@wolfenet.com Date: Sat, 15 Feb 1997 09:55:40 +0000 Subject: Re: BAGGIE!!! Please respond!!! oh Sparkle, I am sop sorry, but I mailed it over 10 days ago, If it is not here by Tuesday I will mail aother one right out.. I promise and refund you too... I am going to trace it today,a dn get another one, I am very sorry.. I should of told you I mailed it.. Baggie Baggie baglady@wolfenet.com 903 54th St. SE Auburn, WA 98092 I stamp whatever the little voices tell me. http://www.wolfenet.com/~baglady ------------------------------ From: Suzanne Owen Date: Sat, 15 Feb 1997 14:46:32 -0600 Subject: RS Alice in Rubberland Swap Hi, I received my cards Thursday, but this is my first chance to say an "official" thanks. Susan Sproc did a Queen of Heart pointing at a Chesire Cat with the words "You did it!" embossed in black. Her queen and cat were stamped in shades on red, mounted on red paper, then on white paper with a red border. Janet Golder has the Mad Hatter and a rabbit stamped and embossed in black on light gray tone paper ovals cut out with decorative scissors. These were very carefully and lightly colored. The ovals are on red cardstock. Nelda's cards are great and have been described. Sandy Kavanagh stamped the rabbit herald on a square of ivory cardstock edged in gold. She lightly colored her image too. The ivory was mount on dark pink, then on black, and finally on more ivory cardstock stamped all over with different random hearts....lovely. Inside was the announcement "Her Highness." Stampcas did queen of heart playing cards, some clocks, cups and a hand partially enclosing "Off with her head!" Pam's card has also been described. Thanks to all! I can learn so much from each and every card, besides just plain enjoying them. Special thanks to Pam for being the hostess. Suzanne ------------------------------ From: Jill Britton Date: Sat, 15 Feb 1997 12:49:59 -0800 Subject: SSS: Valentines Thanks so much to my SSS who sent me a wonderful card with lots of beautiful hearts. I will be opening a store called "StamParadise" in Pasco, Wa on March 1st and this card will be on the display shelf, FOR SURE!!! Please have someone e-mail me the company where you got the stamps from. I would like to carry them. And the background paper is just too coooool!!! Thanks soooo much!.....Jill Britton.....;) ------------------------------ From: perlis Date: Sat, 15 Feb 1997 15:51:17 -0800 Subject: Re: RS: Prosposed Saying Swap Robinstamp@aol.com wrote: > > I am always looking for neat and cool sayings to go along with my cards. > > So, I though maybe a swap of sayings could be in order. This would consist > of you stamping out a saying as many times as fits on a 81/2 by 11 sheet of > paper, with enough room to cut around and inbetween for mounting, and them > swapping them. > > Maybe 5 pages of sayings for 5 pages? > > If there are 5 people interested, I will make it official. > These can be embossed, or stamped in colored ink, whatever you feel is > appropriate. > > Thanks > Robin Hi Robin Interesting idea!!! I'd love to join if anyone else does - 5 pages of different sayings? Page one: saying #1; page two: saying #2 etc.? Does this sound as dumb as I feel? :-D Just specify the requirements, and I'm in!!! Lissa ------------------------------ From: mavinci@JUNO.COM (Ma Vinci) Date: Sat, 15 Feb 1997 13:02:31 EST Subject: Ma Vinci's SSS is here!!! OK...prepare yourselves again...I know you all get SO bummed hearing about what MY SSS sends me...she's the GREATEST, that's all I can say!!! (Sorry, everyone...have to be honest...) I FEEL FAINT!!! My package is UNBELIEVABLE!!! First, it's packed in totally cool shiny, mylar-like packing material, and it looks like a party when I open it... The first thing I find is my FIRST pair of fiskars corner edgers! I've never even SEEN these babies, much less had my hands on them! And these are MINE, MINE, MINE!!! They are WAY cool...the art deco ones. I've already opened them up and put cool corners on all the papers on the desk...I LOVE this!!! THEN...grey, Grey, GREEEEYYYYY!!! A Marvy Matchables GREY stamp pad!!! I LOVE grey!!! Grey is my most favorite color of all!! Grey house, grey car, grey hair (not yet), grey CAT!!! COOOOOOLLLLLLLLL............... THEN I find a little handmade foldy openy envelope she made herself (and I DO have to know how to make this...) made of GREAT dark blue paper with a gold pattern all over it. I open it and here I find UNMOUNTED POSTOIDS!!!! I LOVE POSTOIDS!!! (I think some of these come from Rubber Baby Buggy Bumpers, yes? And one (I think) came from Stamp Out Cute? THERE'S A MONA LISA POSTOID IN HERE!!!! MONA, MONA, MONA!!!! (I'm Leo's fave, though, don't forget...) YEEEEE-HAAAAAAWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THEEEENNNNNNN...as if all of this isn't just PLENTY ENOUGH.....There are, check this out: not one...not two...not three...not four...but FIVE rolls of Miracle Tape from VLVS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FIVE ROLLS!!! FIVE ROLLS ALL AT ONE TIME!!!!! One each of FIVE different widths!!!!!!!!!!!! (And I just got done using up the last of my LAST roll!!!) I'M IN DOUBLE-STICK HEAVEN!!!!!! YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE-HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWW!!! But...let me catch my breath...the best part of the whole package is the handmade valentine she sent me, made of WAY cool papers (I NEED to know where to get that white corrugated-like paper...please tell me?? Did you make it??) It folds on the bottom, and up over the top, and there is a triangle flap that comes over and slips into a little slotted thing in the middle to hold it shut... beautiful burgundy papers and a gold heart...and on the front of the card it says, in cool gold embossing on textured paper: SWAK. I'm not doing it justice in my description, but it is WAY gorgeous, and I'm fixin' to steal the idea and make some of these myself!! Beautiful, simply BEAUTIFUL!!! SSS, once again you've blown my mind...(this is dangerous, given the small nature of this organ)... I'm overwhelmed, and thrilled, and I THANK YOU FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART!!!!! You made my day!! THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!!!! (I hope I didn't miss anything!!!) You're the absolute greatest!! (I'm way light-headed now...) XO Robin ------------------------------ From: Robin Swaby Date: Sat, 15 Feb 1997 15:44:47 -0500 Subject: RS:Pergamano & Parchment For anyone interested : Parchment craft began in 15th century medieval Spanish Cloisters. It is a method used to decorate parchment by piercing and dry embossing. The Pergamano paper from Europe is the best. It can also be stamped and embossed. Add the two together for a lovely affect. I will have the Pergamano parchment papers, tools and Books on the subject by other publishing houses,(discounted) available sometime next month. E-mail me personally if you are interested. Robin-nibor nibor@dnet.net ------------------------------ From: Robin Swaby Date: Sat, 15 Feb 1997 15:26:40 -0500 Subject: Re: RS: Pergamano GGMCCOR@aol.com wrote: > > Does anyone have any information to share about this. I know next to nothing > about it other than a lovely and lacey looking card example I saw a long time > ago with this done to the vellum. > > It was just beautiful and I would love to learn more. > > Please post to the list. > > Thanks, > > FeathersI will have the Pergamano paper for sale next month if anyone is interested you can e-Mail me direct. It is a beautiful parchment paper that can be dry embossed to create "lace" look, plus stamped. Robin nibor@dnet.net ------------------------------ From: Trisha Hamilton Date: Sat, 15 Feb 97 16:00:32 EST Subject: Trisha's SS WOW! I am blown away! Thanks for the great SS pkg. whcih arrived with your card yesterday! Your cards are so beautiful...I can tell we have the smae tastes:). I received many wonderful things, among them raffia, great unmounteds, really cool Stampin UP sets of teacher stamps and heart stamps, wooden hearts, awesome background paper, etc., etc., etc. I am so amazed by your generosity. Thanks you from the bottom of my heart. My kids from school will definitely benefit from this package, as well. You're the greatest. Trisha - -- God may be my co-pilot, but the devil's my bombardier. ------------------------------ From: perlis Date: Sat, 15 Feb 1997 15:22:52 -0800 Subject: Re: RS: What did your Valentine's Day cards look like? (Longish) Mike & Melinda Carmain wrote: > > Hi everyone! I'd love to hear about your ideas for your Valentine's Day > cards. I did two kinds. For one I used bright red cardstock and embossed in > white. I used a large "LOVE" stamp that looked like a postage stamp in the > center and put small hearts all around it. Open it up and it said "Happy > Valentine's Day" in script also embossed in white. > > For the second cards, I used the resist brayer technique using rubber > cement. These didn't turn out as well as I hoped, but I did these for my > kids and they aren't exactly art critics :) I found out this works best > using glossy cardstock and I also found out that I need to use a 6" brayer > instead of a 4" brayer because I had a lot of lines where the 4" brayer > didn't completely cover the card and I had to reroll the ink. I "painted" > hearts on glossy cardstock, used magenta Vivid pad on the brayer, then cut a > little off each side and layered it on white cardstock and also stamped HVD > in script inside the card with the magenta Vivid pad. > > For those who don't know how to do the resist brayering, what you do is > "paint" a design on glossy cardstock with rubber cement. Let it dry > completely. Then ink up your brayer with whatever color you want, brayer > your card, let that dry well and then rub off the rubber cement. I had > problems when I rubbed off the rubber cement that some of the pink ink > transferred from the rubber cement to the card where I was rubbing off the > rubber cement. I guess I need to work more on this technique. Any ideas? > > For my husband, I (shh, don't tell anyone ) broke down and bought him a > card. The sentiments on the card were so much better than I could have come > up with. > > Melinda I must share one I did for my parents - we had a rough Valentine's day last year, because on Feb. 14th my mother was in surgery to have a malignant tumor removed from her left lung, only they had to take out the whole lung, so we ended up celebrating Valentine's Day in March. Nevertheless, she is fine, and we've had a better year knowing the cancer is gone. Also, we're all music fans and/or musicians in my family. Okay, enough background - let me describe the card. I sponged the front in purple, turquoise and pink Marvy markers. On Kromekote I embossed 5 different types of hearts: a scribble heart in Cranberry, a heart made out of a music staff, in purple; a vertically-striped heart in turquoise; a horizontally-striped heart in heliotrope and a smaller vertically-striped heart in dusty rose. I cut them out and poked a hole through the middle of each one. Then I strung blue embroidery floss through the holes, linking each heart, and spacing them apart and in a pattern (some up some down) I mounted them on the card with pop dots. I wrote: Families are held together with heartstrings. Inside, I stamped the guitar player from A La Art, sponged around him, stamped some music notes and wrote: and when Life tugs at those strings, you've taught us to strum along and make music. That's what makes our family so strong. My mom cried (I knew she would) but I felt like I'd captured a very essential feeling. It was also (if I may toot my own horn...?) really beautiful to look at...I left the string (on the outside of the card) dangling about half an inch...it was very effective. I like it when things are assymetrical or out of the paradigms and the string dangling past the end of the card looked good. Sorry for the long post - I had to share...besides, Melinda asked! Lissa ------------------------------ From: James Quinto Date: Sat, 15 Feb 1997 10:59:31 -0800 Subject: New Styles In Stamping Has anyone seen the new book New Styles In Stamping. (Well, maybe it's = not that new, but I just discovered it). Anyway, for those people like = me who sometimes don't have a clue as to what do no next after sitting = down at your stamping table, this book is for you. It's given me new = inspiration! Here are the things that it shows how to do: Magnolia Star Book Tube Wringer Explosion Cards Sliding Pop Up Cards Window Box Cards Bookmark cards (my favorite) Tri Fold Window Cards (or maybe this is my favorite) Shaker Cards Slider Cards Color Magic Cards (wow! These are neat) Pop Ups and Bagalopes Some of these things may not be new to some of you but having this book = with the demonstations and easy directions really helps me. I suggest = to all those people who need new ideas to get this book. It retails for = somewhere around $6.50 - $7.50 depending on where you get it. Or maybe = one of our wonderful vendors on here can get it cheaper. Good luck. ------------------------------ From: owner-rubberstampers@xmission.com Date: Sat, 15 Feb 1997 15:15:44 -0700 (MST) Subject: [none] ------------------------------ From: hornbrkj@nbnet.nb.ca (hornbrkj) Date: Sat, 15 Feb 1997 16:53:25 -0400 Subject: Ques. re Paintbox Rainbow Pads Greetings all: I recently got a Paintbox Rainbow Pad (Pastel) - it has 12 colors in total, and is a humdinger. **But** - I don't really care the appearance of a stamped image with such "defined" bars of color - I prefer my colors to kind of blend one into the other. I suppose what I have to do is kind of "mess up" this new pad?? Any suggestions? Ant Judy H. ------------------------------ From: mavinci@juno.com (Ma Vinci) Date: Sat, 15 Feb 1997 16:16:17 EST Subject: Empty messages today? Anyone else getting empty message today or is it just me? I keep getting these things that say <> Never had these before. Wonder if it's my Juno or somewhere else! They're coming from all different ISP's and all different people...just one of those things that makes me go hmmmm...? Robin ------------------------------ From: Stampalot Sue Date: Sat, 15 Feb 1997 16:06:30 -0800 Subject: RS:TAN: Happy Birthday Sandy!! Sandy has a birthday, Sandy has a birthday One year older than she was before!! Sandy happy birthday, Sandy happy birthday Here's hoping you will have a hundred more!! Have a great one Sandy!! Oklahoma style!!! Big hugs to you! Sue - -- Stampalot Sue Dill stamplot@flash.net One is never enough! Of Anything!! ------------------------------ From: hornbrkj@nbnet.nb.ca (hornbrkj) Date: Sat, 15 Feb 1997 17:15:14 -0400 Subject: RS: PRINT WHEELS Greetings All: Haven't seen any discussion on print wheels by Clearsnap - maybe they're somewhat limited in their uses, but I like them for envelopes, and putting borders on writing paper. Anyone else have any suggestions? Ant Judy H. ------------------------------ End of rubberstampers Digest V2 #275 ************************************ To subscribe to rubberstampers Digest, send the command: subscribe rubberstampers-digest in the body of a message to "majordomo@xmission.com". If you want to subscribe something other than the account the mail is coming from, such as a local redistribution list, then append that address to the "subscribe" command; for example, to subscribe "local-rubberstampers": subscribe rubberstampers-digest local-rubberstampers@your.domain.net A non-digest (direct mail) version of this list is also available; to subscribe to that instead, replace all instances of "rubberstampers-digest" in the commands above with "rubberstampers". Back issues are available for anonymous FTP from ftp.xmission.com, in pub/lists/rubberstampers/archive. These are organized by date.