Easy How Tos: Beaded Jelly Jar Tealight Candle Lantern, Fridge Magnets, and Remember Mama!

We've been dreaming of spring for awhile here at Rubber Nation Crafts! Our friend and co-worker Anne has been busy creating some wonderful inspired projects for spring. Here's a recent favorite of ours!

Beaded Jelly Jar Tealight Candle Lantern

These are perfect for spring or summer events - plus they're GREEN - using recycled clear jars that you already have on hand in your recycle bin. This design could be made up in our glass pearls for outdoor weddings - just add a little tealight, maybe a little sand in the bottom and hang. Send us your ideas!

You can find the detailed project sheet on our site by clicking here ~ or just e-us - we can send you the instruction sheet by e-mail. Go play!

Remember Mama!

It's that time of year again - graduations, Mother's Day, weddings ~ we've got some very easy ways to give your gifts a thoughtful touch with ourpersonalized keyrings, photo bracelets or photo charms.

Each of our photo jewelry items comes with a simple instruction sheet.  We even have photo key chains for kids!

Our ready-to wear photo bracelets have been customer favorites for many years now for MANY reasons! Mainly, they're well-made and VERY easy to use. They're ready-to-wear - lead and nickel-free silver plated solid metal alloy - all you need to do is pop in 6 of your index prints or cropped photos under the acetate sheets in each frame - The only supplies you need for this project are a pair of scissors! Voila! Your gift is done! Now that's EASY!

Lip Balm for Photo and Altered Art Jewelry!

You might not realize it just yet, but the lowly lip balm stick at your neighborhood drugstore IS your favorite new craft supply!

To prevent your ink jet print outs from running before you apply your clear sealer (we think 3D Crystal Lacquer works best), just spread a very thin layer of generic lip balm (the simpler, the better) across your art work and allow it to air dry a few minutes. Then continue with your glaze layer. The lip balm forms enough of a water-resistant barrier to protect your art, but still allows the sealer to do it's job. Try it! It's a life changer for altered and photo jewelry artists!

Peel n Stick Magnet Squares 3/4" 10pc Fits Our Scrabble Tiles for Fridge, Art, Photo Magnets

10 rectangular/square 3/4" adhesive-backed magnets. Fits traditional Scrabble game tiles. Make scrabble tile letter fridge magnets and much more! Scrabble tiles sold separately, by letter or by lot. We also stock circular 1" magnets which fit our bottle caps and glass tiles perfectly! Finish your art with our 3D Crystal Lacquer for professional level results!

Price: $2.99

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Unmounted Rubber Stamps Return! African Textiles, Mayan Carvings, Celtic Designs, Vintage Suns, MORE!

Our unmounted rubber stamps return! Each is a 4x5.5" sheet deep-etched red rubber sheet with freebie adhesive indexing sheet (for tops of mounts or for your storage binder or flat storage system) along with a free Rubber Stamp Primer on the basics of using unmounted rubber stamps. We have lots of really interesting designs restocked - from African to Tribal, Vintage to Snickers, Celtic, Mayan -  there's some really great high-quality images ready to use in your altered art, jewelry, scrapbooking or clay projects.

I like to combine some of the cultural imagery with our bamboo domino tiles, along with metallic inks for some really interesting ready to wear pendants. I'll post a new pendant pic shortly! We also stock some beautiful unmounted rubber alphabets - also very fitting for a personalized piece of jewelry. Send us your finished project to post here - we'd love to share them!

By the way ~ one of the fun freebies we have available on our site is an inspirational Fun With Bamboo Tiles ~ you can find it by clicking here. Enjoy!