Thank God for rubber stamps! With rubber stamps, we can create beautiful professional looking greeting cards at home even without any artistic training. There are lots of rubber stamp companies and most have their own inhouse artists who design the images that are made into rubber stamps. Just do a Google search on rubber stamp companies. You will come up with quite a list of them. Check them out. Look at their rubber stamp designs and see if they are what you like. Different company has different style of rubber stamp images. My favourites are Hero Arts Rubber Stamps, Penny Black Rubber Stamps and Magenta Rubber Stamps. I am also getting to like House Mouse Rubber Stamps images. Some of these stamp companies are Angel Companies and will freely allow us to sell our handmade cards with their images so long as we handstamped every one of them. NOTE: I will be adding a page on Angel Companies soon.

This is a Judi-Kins' bolio. It's like a rolling pin with four sides. On each side is a long strip of red rubber stamp. It's great for stamping borders. Or just stamp, emboss and cut out into smaller pieces and glue to cardstock.

A cube rubber stamp is like the Judi-Kins' bolio. But it has 6 square sides. Not all the sides has rubber. One side is the printed image of the stamp. The instruction is on the second side. And a third side has on it the company's name, address and barcode. The rubber stamps are on the rest of the cube. The one shown here is from Stampendous, Inc. It is a Marble Cube. The instruction tells us which side to stamp first and for example, the one I have, when you have stamped all the three rubber stamp images on top of one another on your card, you get a marble image. Another cool tool!

Instead of wood, this rubber stamp is mounted on thick foam usually black in color. These are cheaper than the wood mounted stamps.

This is a whole sheet of unmounted rubber stamp. It's much cheaper than buying the wood mounted stamps. Only thing is you need to mount it yourself and the whole sheet might has in it certain images you do not want or need. Or you can purchase the individual stamp image. This is called Unmounted Stamp. I find it cheaper to buy these since I like to buy online and these are lighter in weight and so does not cost much in shipping. Cut around the images and glue to thick foam.

I find the brayer very useful for doing card making background. Roll it in one direction on a ink pad over and over again a few time to get the ink evenly on the rubber. Then roll on your cardstock. Try using it with the Kaleidacolor(Raised Rainbow Dye Inkpads). You just have to include this tool in your rubber stamping supplies shopping list if you do not own one yet.

Another one of the many great rubber stamping supplies. I love these inkpads. They are great on glossy cardstock. Only thing is that it is harder to clean the rubber stamps after use.

I like to take out each petal and apply directly on cardstock but the foams tend to come out easily. 

Another great pad for glossy cardstock. Love to use these on CDs too. Very difficult to clean your stamps though after inking with these pads.

Use these with the Hero Arts Shadow rubber stamps.

Great for making watermarks on papers. Use this to lubricate your rubber stamps when you find the rubber drying out. You can also ink your stamps with this inkpad before stamping with Brilliance Ink so that it will be easier to clean up.

I love the Marvy Brush Markers and use them for most of my cards. They have a wide range of colours and though I use them a lot, the brushes still work like new and does not dry out like other brushes. Just scribble each colour on your plastic palette or a foam plate. Wet a clean watercolour brush and pick up the colour. Apply the colour to your stamped or drawn images just like using watercolours. In comparison with watercolours, the markers' colours are more vibrant and richer.

Use these directly on the rubber stamps. Great for applying different colors to the image. The Marvy Embossing Markers stay wet long enough for us to pour on embossing powder to heat emboss the image. I like to emboss with clear embossing powder. You will see the raised image with the markers' colors below. Cool!