Helpful information and tips are included in each issue’s Tips & Techniques column. In the Spring 2026 column, expert stamper Donna Davis describes how to make your own special Fathers Day card—one with fish moving merrily along a stream.
Click here to download a PDF file with detailed instructions on how to make this card.
The cards shown in the Summer issue’s Card Shoppe feature creative takes on outdoor activities. Plaid Dreams by Cindy Hatfield started with the bears image. This is a stamp the artist often employs when making baby cards. “With the bears looking at stars in the sky, I figured Momma bear needed a night shirt, as she is bare naked—pun intended,” said Cindy.
Plaid Dreams / Cindy Hatfield
(Stamp credits: Bears—Immediate Media; words—Justrite; stars—unknown.)
The card shown below was inspired by the theme Say It With Stamps. Artist Pat Walsh chose to leave a white edge when fussy-cutting the girl, flowers, and watering can. She wanted the image to stand out.
Garden Girl / Pat Walsh
(Stamp and product credits: Gardener and saying, flower pot—Stamping Bella; light blue paper—Basic Grey; dark blue paper—Recollections; fussy-cutting scissors—Cutter Bee EK Success.)
Each issue of RubberStampMadness includes stories for, by, and about, stampers. Plenty of stamp art is featured, along with information on how each piece was created. Stampers are encouraged to send in artwork for upcoming issues. Information about how to do this can be found on the Submit Art page.
- Theme topics, generally two per issue, like Odd Couples or A December to Remember for the Holidays issue. Some themes involve challenges. For example, stampers are asked to fill the shape of a bowl, window, pick-up truck, or photo frame with images.
- The Card Shoppe features three to four cards. The focus might be holidays, die cuts, using paper scraps leftover from past projects, or a specific technique.
- The Stamps & Stuff column highlights new and exciting products.
- The Stamp Art Gallery includes cards on a variety of subjects from a variety of stampers. From seven to 10 cards fill two pages in each issue.
- The Tips & Techniques column provides helpful instructions to increase crafting skills, like masking, stenciling, and adding a “vintage” look to cards.
- A Best New Stamper award is given to someone whose work is published for the first time in RSM. See the Submit Art page for information on submitting your stamp art.
- The RSM Bulletin Board includes classified ads, with the option for subscribers to place an ad for free.
- The Cover Artist is a feature story about the person creating the issue’s cover art.
- Looking Ahead provides details on how to submit artwork for upcoming issues. This column is always on the last page of each issue.
Fathers Day Fishes / Donna Davis
The front of Fathers Day Fishes includes a pull tag with the message “Swimming your way for a happy day!” (Stamp and product credits: Big-Mouth Fish Set—G-Rated Rubber Stamps; alphabet die for wording—Sizzix; tree line die—Ellison; Movin’ and Groovin’ slider mechanism—Die-namics; clouds die—My Favorite Things.)