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I have been playing about with a set of kitten rubber stamps from my craft stash and have made some lovely card toppers. Rubber stamping is one of the most widely used of all the crafting techniques - mainly because the majority of people are not artistic enough to draw their own images, or indeed make exact copies from scratch!

I used two rubber stamps to create the four images you can see above, and this is how I made them:

To create numbers 1 & 3:

1. I stamped the image onto plain card stock with a black pigment ink pad and let the image dry for a couple of minutes.
2. I used coloured pencils to colour in the kitten pictures (you can see the slightly rougher texture on the kittens’ faces and bodies). Using glue and an embossing tool (you can use a cocktail stick), I traced over the wiggly lines on image 1 and the corner squares of image 3, and then applied fine glitter.
3. Once the image had dried I took plain card stock again that I had directly coloured with a coloured ink pad, and matted the image onto the card (i.e. I stuck the image to the card to create a smart border).

To make numbers 2 & 4:

1. I stamped another kitten image on to plain card stock as for numbers 1 & 3.  This time however, once the ink had dried I coloured the image in using Le Plume II pens (crafting felt tip pens), to highlight key elements such as the nose and a few of the boxes on the frame of one image.
2. Now crafters are said to be some of the best people at recycling and here is why! - instead of paying £15-£20 a time for crafting chalks I used an old cheapy eye shadow palette to colour in the image.  I particularly like the brown ‘circle’ around the eye of number 4.
3. To set the image so the eye shadow wouldn’t come off I sprayed the image with a fine mist of cheapy hairspray, and allowed it to dry for a few minutes.  (I didn’t bother matting the images this time).

Now I have four separate and different kitten images ready to use for card making or scrapbooking.

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