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 New Ideas for Spring! 
Weekly Consumer Newsletter 
Volume II, Issue XVII 
April 27, 2004 

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in this issue
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Welcome from the Publisher
Share Your GLAZE Projects and WIN!
Basic Masking Techniques
Your Rubber Stamping Questions Answered!
Polymer Clay Jewelry
Win a Set of Permapaque Pens from Sakura!
Calling All Rubber Stampers

Selection and Convenience At Unmounted Central
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We carry the full line of rubber stamps from Ink-N-Rubber Expressions. Come see our many other things that fly and related verses. These, or any of the other 2000 plus unmounted rubber stamps we carry, ship for free and come trimmed, with EZ Mount foam cushion attached.

Click here to shop today!

Share Your GLAZE Projects and WIN!
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You saw it here first: Sakura’s innovative Gelly Roll GLAZE! Now it’s time for you to show us what you can do with GLAZE. "Writing you can feel.™"

Show us your innovative use of this exciting new tool. The most innovative and creative uses of GLAZE will win prizes from Sakura of America.

Grand Prize wins $200 of Sakura product!!! 
Click here for details!

Perfect Pearls Pigment from Ranger
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Ranger's Perfect Pearls Pigment is the most versatile pearl product available to today's paper crafter. Whether stamping, embossing, painting, or mixing with your favorite medium-inks, acrylics, embossing powders, clays, fabric paints and more. Click for 8 fabulous techniques from artist, Julia Andrus, and you'll see why they're your PERFECT choice!

Basic Masking Techniques 
Back to Basics By: Martha Reed and Fran Saperstein
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Very simply masking is an easy technique that will allow you to add depth and dimension to your stamping artwork. Masking allows you to add or manipulate images, to apply color to your artwork in only particular areas or to add only certain parts of a stamp into your designs. 

read more...

The Hot Boss Idea Book is Now Available!
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The Hot Boss idea book is now available! The Hot Boss tool is a heat burner that allows embossing powder to melt and create artistic effects. This book gives detailed instructions of how to incorporate this tool into your scrapbooks, rubber stamping and paper crafts. 

Click here to buy your Hot Boss tool and Idea book today!

Your Rubber Stamping Questions Answered! 
By Special Guest Dee Gruenig
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Do you have a question you would like to see Dee answer? 

If so, please submit you question to us at
RSIEditor@ShopA-Z.com, placing "Ask Dee" in the subject line. We can't promise that Dee can answer every question, but we'll forward all of your questions to Dee. If your question is chosen by Dee to be answered in our magazine, we'll publish your first name, city and state or anonymously if you so desire, just let us know.

New Idea Book From Karen Foster Design!
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ANCESTRY ART, Karen Foster's NEW idea book, teaches you how to research your family history and create ancestry scrapbooks, boxes, theme books and more.

Watch for NEW fishing, water sports, soccer and patriotic paper and stickers!

Ask for these products at your favorite scrapbook store or online at
www.scrapbookpaper.com.

Polymer Clay Jewelry  
By: Martha Reed
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As stampers, we crave textures and items other than paper to stamp on and into. Polymer clay provides us an excellent source of stamp-able surfaces that feeds the gratification we desire. The strength and durability of polymer clay provides an excellent medium to create beautiful jewelry.


read more...

New and Exclusive Products from Clear Envelopes
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Introducing The New Vellum: New and exclusive Scrapbooking products from ClearEnvelopes.com: 12" x 12" clear colored plastic sheets and 2" x 2" pockets designed specifically for Scrapbookers. Both products are acid free/archival safe.

Visit us today to learn about BOP Film and BOP Pockets, as well as our hundreds of other great products.

ClearEnvelopes.com

Win a set of Permapaque Pens From Sakura!
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This week give us your input on altered art projects for a chance to win a set of Sakura's just-released metallic Permapaque pens! Permapaque pens write on a variety of surfaces, like vellum and metal, and don't smudge or bleed!

click here to complete this week's survey.

NEW Products and SAVINGS from Dolphin Enterprises
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Yeah, We’re EXCITED! Visit our new web site and see our NEW ADDITIONS... Classy Accents Brads, Frames, Charms and more. Use coupon code 20040420 and receive 10% off your entire order. Don’t forget to check out all of the categories. You don’t want to miss a thing. 

www.protect-a-page.com 

We would love to publish your artwork in our magazine!
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We are currently accepting reader's artwork submissions for July and August featuring an Americana Theme, the Outdoors, Picnics, BBQs, Beaches and Summertime Fun. Please submit your projects to: RSIEditor@shopa-z.com. Please include your name, email address, your mailing address, a list of products you used and a brief description of how you created the card. Also, please limit the file size to 100K, and send as a jpg.

You will be contacted if we decide to publish your card.

welcome

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Fran Saperstein
Publisher

Have April showers got you down? Well May is just around the corner! In the meantime, sit back and click away the rainy day blues with RubberStampingIdeas.com Magazine. Our colorful projects and ideas are sure to cheer you!

Don't forget about our newsletter contest. Simply share our newsletter with your friends for a chance to win! See details below. 


Fran Saperstein, Publisher
publisher@a-z.com

 
 
forward to a friend
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click here to refer your friends!

 

what's happening

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April 30-May 2
Purity Spring "Stamp Camp"
East Madison, NH
April 30-May 1
The Rubberstamp Roundup
Las Vegas, NV
May 6-8
Great Lakes Mega Meet
Novi, MI
May 15-16
Rubber Stamp & Scrapbook Expo
St. Paul, MN
May 15-16
The Washington Art & Rubber Stamp Festival
Puyallup, WA

 

rubber stamping tip
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Are your scissors getting hard to use because the blades have become all gooped-up with adhesive? Try carefully wiping the blades with alcohol and a paper towel, the alcohol will break up the adhesive and your scissors will be as good as new. 
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RubberStampingIdeas.com Magazine Designers

 

survey winners
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January 2004
Karen
Aberdeen, SD
Diana
Hurst, TX
Lisa
Houston, TX

 

this week's sponsors
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Unmounted Central
Ranger
Carolee's Creations
Karen Foster Design
Clear Envelopes
Dolphin Enterprises

 

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