Book Review - Stamping Fun For Beginners by MaryJo McGraw

Stamping Fun for Beginners by MaryJo McGraw is an ideal book for beginner stampers – and for stampers who have found themselves in a stamping-rut. In this book, rubber stamp artist MaryJo McGraw explains many different stamping techniques and how they can be used.

The book is broadly broken down into two sections. The first section covers all a stamper needs to know about getting started. This includes essential information on tools, materials and techniques. The rest of the book is dedicated 27 rubber stamping projects. The projects are completed using a wide range of different techniques and are diverse and wide reaching. The projects range from simple hand stamped cards to a stamped canvas bag and stamping on wood and glass.

While Stamping Fun for Beginners is for beginners, MaryJo McGraw has plenty here that will inspire stampers with more experience. This is a particularly good book for stampers who are seeking to use their craft on other projects than just greeting cards.

Stamping Fun for Beginners covers a lot ground. Many different techniques and ideas are explored, however due to the very nature of the book, these are relatively brief. Stampers are encouraged to take an idea or technique and develop on it and use it in different ways. MaryJo McGraw seeks to inspire stampers by helping to demonstrate what is possible and allowing stampers to build on this and create their own designs.

MaryJo McGraw includes hints and tips throughout the book. This provides extra help for readers and gives some great ideas for developing projects or techniques.

It is difficult to fault this book. It is an excellent book for beginners and offers plenty of ideas to spice up stamping for jaded stampers. Stamping Fun for Beginners is a book that talks about stamping in general therefore no one technique or project is examined in detail – however this allows stampers to try different techniques and they can then look for more specialist information later.