Rubber Stamping Card Ideas

If you like to make cards and stationery, it seems like you can never have too many rubber stamping card ideas. There are always more cards to make, more stamps to try and more techniques to master. Of course, that’s a big part of the fun, too. Here are a few rubber stamping card ideas for you to try.

A Basic Rubber Stamped Card

Pick a stamp that you like just as it is and stamp it in the center of a card. You might want to choose a card that is similar in size and shape to your stamp, or use a bigger card so there is a lot of blank space around the stamp.

This basic design takes no time to do and is a great way to show off a dramatic stamp or even a simple statement like Happy Birthday.

Color in Your Stamp

For something a little more interesting, choose a stamp with a design that would benefit from the addition of color, such as a large flower or a stamp with a person on it.

Stamp the stamp onto your card, allow it to dry and use colored pencils, ink pens, fine-tip markers, pastels or whatever you have on hand to color in the stamp, just like you would color a page in a coloring book.

Repeating Stamps

If you have a small or medium-sized stamp, use the same stamp multiple times on the same card. You can place a stamp in each of the corners and in the middle of the card, randomly stamp the card or even stack the images for a kind of shadowed effect.

This is a great way to use multiple colors as well. A basic Thank You card could be made much more special and interesting by stamping Thank You in five or six different colors, especially if some of them are metallics, pigment inks or other special inks.

Embossing

Of course embossing is one of the easiest ways to jazz up a simple stamped card. Using a heat gun, pigment ink and embossing powder, you can quickly make an image that is raised up from the surface of the card.

Combining embossing with coloring can make an even more dramatic looking card, and it’s much easier to avoid coloring over the lines when the lines are rasied!

Stamp Collage

Who says you have to limit a card to just one stamp? Why not choose a main stamp that you will use in the center of the card and then stamp a border or a secondary stamp around the edges or in the corners?

Again, coloring and or embossing one image will make that one stand out more against the plain flat stamps used almost as a background. Or use a light stamping of a background image like a square or circle and then stamp your main image on top of it slightly darker to give some depth and dimension to your stamps.

Stacking Paper

Instead of stamping your image directly on the card, stamp a piece of card stock instead. Trim that piece with a pair of decorative scissors so the edges are scalloped or pinked.

If desired, add another piece of paper that is a different color. Glue your stamped piece to the paper and then glue that to the card. You can make big stacks of paper cut in different sizes of complementary colors to add a lot of interest to an otherwise basic card.

Try Different Papers

Have you ever stamped on vellum or used a really textured card stock? The next time you’re at your favorite craft store, look at all the different kinds of cards that you’ve never considered before. Try something different; you just might fall in love with a combination you never considered before.

Another idea is to use cutout punches to add interest to a stamped card. If you have a small stamp, say a flower, and a round punch, you can punch a few holes in to front of the card and stamp the image on the inside of the card. This adds interest and only takes a few more seconds to do. Make sure you punch first and then stamp so that the images will be visible when the card is closed.

Embellishing Your Rubber Stamped Cards

Don’t stop at rubbers stamps unless you want to. You can always draw on your cards, add charms, put on stickers, embellish with ribbon or use just about anything else from the scrapbooking aisle on your cards.

If you have time and lots of creativity, you can come up with an endless supply of rubber stamping card ideas and make your cards true works of art.

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