Top Ten Rubber Stamping Ideas For Crafts, Cards, Scrapbooking, and More!

Finding quality rubber stamps to translate your creative ideas into reality can be difficult, while there are several rubber stamp websites out there, many of them only carry a few lines, or carry the newest releases only.

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There are so many ways that you can use rubber stamps that it is hard to know where to begin. Here are the top ten rubber stamping ideas for the beginning crafter.

1. Make your own gift boxes. Of all the rubber stamping ideas listed here, this is the one that can be used year round. Buy plain gift boxes, wrap original boxes with plan brown paper, or wrap shoe boxes with plain brown or white paper. Use the rubber stamps to create your own crafty designs, personalized to the occasion or person.

2. Deck the halls-or walls, or ceilings-whatever you prefer! Many people add a personal touch to their homes using rubber stamping ideas found in home decoration magazines, books, television shows, and web sites. You can always come up with your own ideas, of course.

3. One the first day of Christmas... Make unique Christmas cards using rubber stamps. With these easy methods you could send one card for each of the twelve days of Christmas!

4. Other greeting cards. Personalize thank you notes with a rubber stamp of the type of item received. Personalize birthday cards based on interest or age. Personalize graduation cards with the school mascot. The rubber stamping ideas for cards are endless.

5. Many people make their own wedding accessories using rubber stamps shaped like bells, flowers, or a bride and groom. Create your own wedding announcements, invitations, programs, napkins, and other mementos not easily printed.

6. Make banners for retirement, birthdays, anniversaries, graduations, or other occasions with ease and neatness using butcher paper and your rubber stamp collection.

7. Decorate old furniture with floral borders for a fresh new look. Dressers, end tables, and freshly painted trunks or bed posts are great for this type of rubber stamping ideas.

8. Use smaller rubber stamps to add color and fun to your scrap book pages or photo albums. Happy faces, flowers, arrows, bows, bells, gift wrapped boxes, and birthday cakes are just some of the rubber stamps available for scrap booking.

9. Make your own flash cards. Toddlers should begin working on shape and letter sound recognition around the age of two. Use alphabet stamps to stamp the letter on one side of the flash card and other rubber stamps like cars, planes, or boxes on the other side of the flash card.

10. Curtains and clothing. Use rubber stamps with fabric paint to decorate sweat shirts,t-shirts, jeans, curtains, plain blankets, or other materials and clothing.