Well, that's the definition, but that's like saying that cooking is just mixing and heating food. You can do a lot with different papers and inks, and there's about 8 trillion gazillion different stamp designs out there. (In other words, if it exists, there's a stamp of it.) And you don't even have to stamp on paper - there's glass stamping, fabric stamping, etc. There's also other techniques that are generally considered in the realm of stamping/scrapbooking, like embossing, that can also give you more options to use.
Generally the art of stamping is all in how you arrange your design, what colors you use, etc. I'll cheerfully admit that most of the stuff I stamp is pretty butt-ugly, but some of the stamped stuff I've seen was so nice it made Hallmark look like a color-blind kindergartener.
Somerset Studio (http://www.somersetstudio.com/) and Rubber Stamper (http://www.rubberstamper.com/) are the big stamping magazines, and you can find more info there. As for samples of actual stamped things, there's a lot out there but this (http://www.tealdragon.net/rs/samples/samples.htm) is the first thing I came upon, and it has some pretty nice (albeit basic) projects.
As for stampers themselves, they tend to be chatty (I was once subscribed to a rubberstampers listserv, and there were like 400+ posts a day, wtf). As with a lot of crafts, a large percentage of participants tend to be female, middle-aged, and/or Christian (the amount of "inspirational" rubber stamped stuff out there is mind-boggling), but generally they're pretty nice.
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Date: 2005-01-28 02:47 pm (UTC)Generally the art of stamping is all in how you arrange your design, what colors you use, etc. I'll cheerfully admit that most of the stuff I stamp is pretty butt-ugly, but some of the stamped stuff I've seen was so nice it made Hallmark look like a color-blind kindergartener.
Somerset Studio (http://www.somersetstudio.com/) and Rubber Stamper (http://www.rubberstamper.com/) are the big stamping magazines, and you can find more info there. As for samples of actual stamped things, there's a lot out there but this (http://www.tealdragon.net/rs/samples/samples.htm) is the first thing I came upon, and it has some pretty nice (albeit basic) projects.
As for stampers themselves, they tend to be chatty (I was once subscribed to a rubberstampers listserv, and there were like 400+ posts a day, wtf). As with a lot of crafts, a large percentage of participants tend to be female, middle-aged, and/or Christian (the amount of "inspirational" rubber stamped stuff out there is mind-boggling), but generally they're pretty nice.