Rare Earth Boho

I am not a youth, as in the original use of Bohemians,  but in my spare time I like dabbling in arts and crafts. These Rare Earth stamps are fun and give you the chance to play with "art". There are so many stamps in the sets that it gives lots of design possibilities. Here are some of the ideas I came up with when first trying out the stamps.

I used tissue paper to create the coloured backgrounds. I tore some tissue paper, sprayed the paper I was printing onto with water and placed the pieces of tissue paper onto the wet card and put a heavy weight on it until it dried. The tissue paper was peeled off to reveal the bright colours. I think the boho stamps work well with bright colours.

Feathers were stamped onto the background card. The moon with the feathers below hit of a dream-catcher. I love the detail of the feathers. They can be used in so many ways.

Now here is the dream-catcher. It is a big stamp but gives a clear image. the message reads best wishes. 

The background stamps are detailed but stamp clearly. I coloured the feathers with alcohol markers and added a few textured threads.

Yay!! Spring is on the way. This card reminds me of this and no matter what is happening we can bring a bit of sunshine to peoples lives.

I stamped the feathers onto oxide inks with a few splats thrown in to liven it up.

I used the stamp in the background and cut it out and mounted it on foam as a focal point.

I love the small stamp with lines and dots which I used to make a frame. You can see that I also love the feather stamps.

I decided to have a go at making some "art" dolls. I used the Brother Scan n Cut to weld 3 circles together to make the body. I cut out three layers of card and stuck them together to make it strong enough. Pipe cleaners were used or the arms and legs and large beads for hands and feet. I used feathers to make a skirt on the left hand doll. One face was coloured like the sun and one more like a human.

I nearly always decorate a bag as it is nice to have some co-ordination if you are giving a card and present.

Here`s to boho and no boohoo!!

Rare Earth Pet stamps

The Rare Earth pet stamps are so realistic and so detailed which makes them very easy to colour and they are very versatile and fun to use. There are a variety of dogs, cats and more exotic pets in the sets.

I decoupaged the face of the bulldog to give it more dimension. The card front was folded on the diagonal and the dog background stamp was used over an oxide ink background. I designed the kennel and bone and cut out with the Brother Scan n Cut.

I love the fur background stamp and found they look more realistic when blending two colours. The fish-bones were designed using Canvas Workspace.

The hamster stamp is really cute. I used decoupage for the face and the paws. I stamped the fur background green and it looks like grass.

The cat is sitting in a window box. Unfortunately I cut it off in the photograph so it is difficult to work out what`s going on.

The kitten has a pleading look on its face. It fits well on the Tattered Lace rocker card.

These two dogs look ready for action. The paw prints come with the set of stamps and again I used the fur stamp for the background.

I love this cat peeping from behind the door. I nearly gave up with this card but it turned out alright in the end.

I used papers from one of the Tattered lace magazines for the background. The rabbits are sat on a mini fold to give the scene more dimension.

I used the Tattered Lace mid stepper card dies and the fur background stamp. The stamp is so well shaded it only needed one layer of grey alcohol pens.

The week before I received these stamps I made a birthday card for somebody with a tortoise and a parrot but the images I used were not so good as the Rare Earth stamps. I shall now be prepared for next year!! 

I nearly uploaded this picture upside down!! Australian fish?  I used the Brother Scan n Cut to make the bowl and some torn tissue paper for the weed. The fish stamp is very detailed and very realistic and easy to colour.