Making Gifts with Rubber Stamps
by Judy Claxton, Sandra McCall

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Book Review: Finally, a way to share the riches of talent!
Summary: 5 Stars

"Making Gifts with Rubber Stamps" has pages and pages of detailed color photos of a variety of projects. The sequential photos, supplemented by clear descriptions, make the projects very easy to understand. There is even a set of drawings on making your own tassels. Helpful hints, such as how to remove acrylic paint from stamps and tips for cutting paper and chipboard, are scattered strategically throughout the book.

Sandra also includes several pages of tips at the beginning of the book, discussing the pros and cons of a variety of products. I know one of her favorite places to find art supplies is the hardware store; it leads to very interesting results! Patterns and basic diagrams with measurements are included, but Sandra is careful to explain that these measurements are guidelines, not edicts. A list of suppliers and an a reasonably complete index complete the book.

The list of projects includes fancy fan book, simple album, perfect presentation display box*, dowel-spined book, surprise jewelry box, small stationery folio, large portfolio, pocket portfolio, shadow box, pendant purse, burnished metal container, very velvet pouch, fabric pins, EnviroTex pins, clay works, PaperClay medallions, Poly dolly necklace, window to my art, "Light Up Your Life" lampshades, beautiful beads, shrink plastic basics, and shrink art push pins. Oh, and just to tantalize you, Sandra found the best use of H-O railroad scale people that I've ever seen!

(* I think that the perfect presentation box is either the same or very similar to something that won Sandra one of the top awards from the juried show at the second ArtFest in Seattle.)

I've had the privilege of taking several of Sandra's classes and this book is much like those classes ... you get much more than your money's worth!

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