Rubber Stamp Book List

Rubber Stamping for the First Time
Carol Scheffler 1999 Sterling Publications
Hardcover, 112 pages
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Stampin' Up! Portfolio I Sections 1-4 * Excellent
Stampin' Up!
$49.95 for the complete Portfolio I, 304 pages
The first packet includes a large three ring binder and divider pages for storing all the pages for the four sections of Portfolio I. Each page features about three cards, or projects with full color pictures. Complete instructions and patterns are included. Beginner to advanced.
Projects from the entire Portfolio I include a hat box card, paper clay pin, decorated notebook, bookmark cards, shaker cards, a confetti flinger card (instructions are unclear), a shirt card, pop-up cards, stamped Hershey bar favor, purse card, paper clay flowers in a pot, stamped wall clock, decorated gift bag, windsock, paper basket, Easter egg tree ornaments, stamped heart box, shadow box, apron card, rubber band brayer background, stamping in soot, circle window flip card, window danglers card, Christmas tree ornaments, gift card portfolio, accordian card, picture frame, stamped candle, gift bags and packets, booklet, fan, paper clay buttons, bottle mailer, cake slice gift boxes, coasters, pinwheel card, pinwheel, lots of fabric stamping samples, stamping on velvet, memory book pages, decorating with stamping on fabric, wood, metal and walls, outdoor stamping projects, projects for kids, party items and games.
To order, locate a Stampin' Up! demonstrator at 1-800-STAMP-UP or http://www.stampinup.com.

Stampin' Up! Portfolio II Book I * Good
$24.99, 2000, Stampin' Up!

Stampin' Up! has come out with the first book of four in a second portfolio of samples and project instructions. Unfortunately I found the first volume of Portfolio II disappointing. As an advanced stamper, I didn't see much that I haven't seen before in the way of projects. While it does have project ideas and instructions that are not in the Portfolio I, they are not especially new to the stamping scene. The samples are very nice, but not really more impressive than the samples in the 1999-2000 catalog (which by the way is $8 as opposed to $24.99). I felt as though they included just a quarter of their "new" ideas in the first volume in order to spread them out over the four volumes of Portfolio II.

On the other hand, I like the format of this portfolio much better than that of Portfolio I. It is 10" x 10", spiral bound and comes with a box for storing volume one along with the future three volumes. It will lay flat when open, takes up much less work space than Portfolio I, and will fit on a book shelf. Patterns and instructions are included for projects that require them as in Portfolio I. As usual, you'll find unique samples to give you ideas for using the Stampin' Up! stamps you already have and inspire you to collect more.

There are about 72 pages of samples with approximately 3 samples per page. Some of the projects included are: snow shaker paperweight, fan tree ornament, stamping on velvet, Jiffy Pop popcorn gift, knit hat shaped card, note card set and holder, gift box template, bookmark card, standup/pop-up card, folded shirt card, wax paper resist background, pyramid box template, plastic glove filled goody bag, purse card, scrapbooking pages and various non-paper projects.

This book will probably be loved by beginner and intermediate stampers, but considered unimpressing to advanced stampers. I have to admit though that I still plan to buy the rest of the books in Portfolio II when they come out in order to complete my set and to see what they offer.

To order, locate a Stampin' Up! demonstrator at 1-800-STAMP-UP or http://www.stampinup.com.

The Complete Guide to Decorative Stamping: Decorate Your Home Simply and Beautifully With Your Own Easy-To-Make Stamp Designs
Grace Taormina 1998 Watson-Guptill Pubns.
Paperback - 160 pages
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The Complete Guide to Rubber Stamping * Excellent
Grace Taormina 1996
A beautiful book for beginning to advanced stamping; features Rubber Stampede stamps; includes sections on Design Strategies, Color Fundamentals and Creating Depth and Dimension; lots of great project ideas. (160 pages)
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Rubber Stamps & How to Make Them
George L. Thomson, 1982, Pantheon Books, New York
Paperback - 95 pages
History of the origin of rubber stamps, instructions for making your own tools for carving stamps, and many pages of impressive hand carved stamps and designs created with them. (I haven't tried Thomson's carving tools, and do not know how these tools compare with the Speedball v-shaped carving tools which I use myself.)
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Stamp Magic
Stewart & Sally Walton
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The Rubber Stamp Sourcebook *
David Ward
Contains sample images and contact information from a variety of stamp companies; beginning to advanced stamping techniques and ideas; and a rubber stamping bibliography. (334 pages in 1995)
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The Art of Rubber Stamping * Excellent
Suze Weinberg, Sterling Publishing Company 2000
Hardback - 132 pages
This stamping book is full of bright, beautiful samples for many creative ideas for creating original stamped artwork with backgrounds and collage style images. Recommended for intermediate to advanced stampers. Includes general instructions for basic stamping techniques required.
Techniques: alcohol inks, photo stamping, fusible web, salt, waxed paper, bleach, plastic wrap, cheesecloth, brayer with torn paper, tissue paper, copy mosaics, backgrounds in a bottle, marbled metallic markers, metallic markers with brayer, metallic markers with dye ink pad and brayer, metallic markers with dye refill ink and brayer, metallic markers and plastic wrap, liquid leather, spray webbing, moldable foam, pearlized dry pigment powders and embossing ink resist, brayer resist with embossing ink, hidden color embossing resist, brayer resist with archival ink, ink pad color with blender, painting with blender pen and dry pigment powders, embellishing with glitter glue, paper gilding, adhesive sheets and fabric lace, embossing with white powder and chalks, stamping on art metal, thick embossing enamel, cracking with thick embossing enamel, thick embossing enamel on metal, thick embossing enamel on shrink plastic, thick embossing enamel and rubber shelf liner, pearlized fabric paint, and soot.
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Stamping Made Easy *
Nancy Wood 1994
Beginning to intermediate; some sketches; a few color pictures. (113 pages)
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All You Need to Know about Rubber Stamping
Maggie Wright 1996 Search Press
Paperback - 48 pages
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