Rubberstamped Domino Frames

Level of difficulty: Intermediate

This is a beautiful tray, makes a great gift item. I get this square frames at Walmart in the craft section, they work perfectly with 18 jumbo dominoes. A set of the frames is a perfect matched set. Most all rubberstamps in project shown are from Club Scrap.

Unfinished wood frame

Dominoes, Jumbo size (1.5 in x 2 in)

Crafter’s Pick glue or other permanent glue

Black spray paint

Cotton Balls

Various Rubberstamps

Stazon ink (or you can use Brilliance inks)

Instructions

Spray paint wooden frame. I recommend painting several light coats, letting each coat dry before apply additional coats, until frame is solid black on all edges, front, and back.
Use Stazon ink and ink all four edges of the 18 dominoes. I just took the domino and slide it right over the ink pad to ink up the edges. Set aside to dry for a few hours or overnight.
Place dominoes into frame however you find attractive to the eye, I usually do two horizontal and then two vertical across the whole tray. If I have a large stamp, then I would use three dominoes in a row and then a single in another spot with a small rubber stamp.
Chose your rubberstamps and pull out which ever set of dominoes you prefer to use. If you use mounted rubberstamps you can stamp directly onto the set of dominoes. With unmounted rubberstamps, I find flipping the rubberstamp upside down and pressing the dominoes onto the stamp gives you a better image. When using the Stazon ink, clean your stamps immediately after using them. Stazon makes a special ink remover as well. Once image is on dominoes, place back into frame, being careful not to touch image (otherwise you might smear it). Let all images dry for a few hours or overnight before proceeding.
Now that the images are dry, take a cotton ball and dab into the Stazon ink and dab the edges of the front of each domino around the image. This gives the dominoes a more muted edge versus the sharp edge from step 2’s inking edge. Let this dry for a few hours.
Now at this point, if you want to seal your dominoes with a spray sealer, go ahead and do that. Let dry.
You will want to work fairly quickly on this step, so that the glue doesn’t dry completely before you get all your dominoes into place and properly centered. So once all the ink is dry, then remove a few of the dominoes at a time and apply glue to the tray and set your dominoes into the glue. By doing just a few at a time you won’t mess up your pattern and layout. Use a glue that dry clears, just in case any glue creeps up through the cracks. Let this dry.

Good luck and have fun!

Debbie Weller

a.k.a. DebDuzScrappin

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