The super-talented Shelly (Stamp with Shelly) has issued a challenge on the Rubbernecker Stamp Company Blog: Make a Christmas card using untraditional colors.
Here is what I came up with:
The Snowy Night image was stamped with Pear Tart Memento--the pad is quite juicy so I was able to heat emboss the image with clear embossing powder.
The Hope and Love sentiment was stamped over top with StazOn Jet Black.
I sponged Broken China Tim Holtz Distress Ink on the bottom and Concord Grape Tim Holtz Distress Ink on the top.
The cardstock is from Bazzill. I embellished with jewels and stickles.
I hope you have a chance to play along and then link your project to the Rubbernecker Stamp Company Blog!!
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) The sentiment treatment idea came from Anna Wight over at Sassy & Sweet Notes. THANKS ANNA!
Stamps: Lucia and Scroll Peace from Rubbernecker Stamp Company;AND be sure to check back tomorrow for the Rubbernecker Blogger Challenge!!
Paper: Real Red and Chocolate Chip (SU!); light and medium sage (Bazzill); White (GP)
Ink: Rich Cocoa Memento;
Accessories: Prismacolor and Copic markers; Sequin, brad, embossing folder; Nestabilities;
For Rubbernecker Blog Challenge #13, the queen of bad, Sherry, is hosting the challenge.
She has challenged us to make a card in any shape other than the standard 4.25x5.5. It can be a long or tall card, or any other shape you want it to be. Your card must also include snowflakes! I sure hope you can play along, too!!
The stamps, Wreath with Bow and Music Background were stamped with VersaMark and embossed with white embossing powder. I watercolored the wreath using re-inkers. As you can see, I cut out the image with a Nestabilities die and embossed the background with a Cuttlebug embossing folder.
I hope you can join us for this challenge--it is perfect for Christmas cards, tags, or decorations. Don't forget to check out the other design team members for MORE inspiration!!
Just a quick post today to show you a card:
This was a fun one to do. I used the flight lines from the Bees Sheet to make a flight path around the card. It was fun to do--I did learn one thing, however. NUMBER THE SQUARES. I got them jumbled as I was matting them--and it took me a while to get them back in line.
I bet you are like me--busy as a bee, today. AND that is why this post is short!
Have a great weekend!
Here are your random numbers:
9
Timestamp: 2008-12-04 05:01:41 UTC
AND that would be "Miss Boo!"
Great card! I took advantage of the sale already!!! Thanks for offering the blog candy!
December 2, 2008 1:48 PM
Well, it looks like you NEED to go shopping again!
Today's Rubbernecker Blog Challenge is to use fibers and NOT ribbon! The sweet Bev (Tex) Gerard is hosting the challenge this week.
This is a 2.75" x 4" card. I have made it to go on a gift--Like a tag. I have had this WILD white fiber for YEARS--and now it is going to get used. I am making a flock of these tags. The dp was from Hobby Lobby last year and the colored cardstock is from Bazzill.
The image is Maurice from Rubbernecker Stamp Company. Perhaps for this color scheme he should be Moira. (BTW--He is on sale right now!!)
Check out the rest of the designers' creations too!!
And don't forget:
Thanks for stopping by!!!
to catch a deal at Rubbernecker!!!
ON SALE FRIDAY, SATURDAY AND SUNDAY ONLY
11/28-11/30
Adirondack Pigment pads and reinkers
while supply lasts
PADS $3.79
REINKERS $2.99
3 DAYS ONLY
(Sorry, Feedblitz readers, I know this will be too late for you--I thought I was going to have computer access over the holiday--but I didn't. I will be more prompt with the next sale.)
Today, challenge seekers, your challenge (should you choose to accept it) is to create a card or project about or using food items. Come on, you know you're hungry and just waiting for that big Thanksgiving feast! So use those thoughts and that hunger to inspire you to create.
Please play along with us, and leave a comment HERE linking us directly to your card. We’d love to see your food inspired creation!
Here is my card:
Since we are heading out to go "Over the river and through the woods to Grandmother's house", I decided to keep this one simple.
The dp is by Melissa Frances; all of the cardstock but the main image is Bazzill; the vanilla cardstock is by SU!; the punch is a Martha Stewart punch,;
I used the Cornucopia stamp from the Rubbernecker Fall section.
I hope you have a joyful Thanksgiving.
CHOCOLATE!
This is for today’s Limited Supply Challenge #195. Hosted by my talented friend, Judy!
The theme is Charlie and the Chocolate factory and we were to incorporate a chocolate theme. I used Chocolate Chip cardstock, Rich Cocoa ink (Memento), and actual chocolates. YUMMO!!
The container is the box in a bag: Diana’s tutorial. It is easy and fun. The window is from a Spellbinder's die (Label #1). The window is from some light bulb packaging (I had to remove it to recycle the box anyway).
The stamps are Yapples from the DoodleFactory and the Plaque Set. All from Starving Artistamps.
Thanks for stopping by my blog--I hope you can get some choco-mojo going and play, too!
It is time for a new Rubbernecker Stamp Company Blog Challenge.
This week is hosted by none other than the queen of collage: Shelly Kuck!! You can get all the details (and see Shelly's cool card by going: HERE.
Now you know you have bling, or shimmer, or glitter--somewhere in your stash....so lets get a holiday card done and play!!
Here is my "play":
(note: the oval is not off kilter--I am just a bad photographer)
I got the technique used on this card from Colleen Schaan, on her Technique Tuesday segment of her blog. She calls it Painting Pearls. It is super easy. On dark paper, stamp with VersaMark (or other watermark/embossing pad), clear emboss, and then paint with water and perfect pearls. You end up with a resist. I think this technique was made for this stamp!!!
Materials used:
Check out what the rest of the design team has done:
Bev - Savor the Journey--Broni - Splashes of Watercolor--Candy - Candy's Land --Joan - Stamping with a Passion!--Kittie - Kittie Kraft--Linda - Linda’s Works of Heart--Pam - Iris Garden--Shelly - Stamp with Shelly--Tami - A Walk on the Mild Side--Sherry - Walkin' on the BAD Side!
Thanks for stopping by--now go and glitter-glow-and SHINE!!
Bev - Savor the Journey~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Broni - Splashes of Watercolor
Candy - Candy's Land
Joan - Stamping with a Passion!
Kittie - Kittie Kraft
Linda - Linda’s Works of Heart
Pam - Iris Garden
Shelly - Stamp with Shelly
Tami - A Walk on the Mild Side
Sherry - Walkin' on the BAD Side!
I know there are people out that that don't like cake. My son and my mother-in-law are not huge fans (which leaves more for ME!). But I really do like cake. I am not usually a fan of the fancy bakery sheet cakes (not that I would turn them away, mind you). But a good old fashioned Bundt cake or a layer cake brings a smile to my face.
My younger dd has a birthday party to go to today--so I had a good excuse to pull out my Eat Cake Graphics stamps. Puppies and cake--such a beautiful pair!
I love this little guy. I sure hope he gets some cake, too!
I also decided to play some more with my alcohol markers. My coloring is not perfect, but I am pleased with my progress. Leaving a little white is a challenge to me--but I have noticed that the *pros* do that.
The card base is an embossed card that I got in a box from Die Cuts With a View (DCWV). I find them VERY handy for birthday cards.
Thanks for stopping by!
I had a bit of basement drama this week. A small drip in my stamp area--which incurred minimal damage--and is now fixed. But I was unable to concentrate and complete my project for the Rubbernecker Blogger Challenge (RBC).
The RBC #9 was hosted by Broni Holcombe. She has a MARVELOUS inspiration piece posted:
And here is my card:
I inked the Pine Sprig with Tea Dye then Peeled Paint Tim Holtz Distress Inks. I quickly embossed the image with clear embossing powder. I I then masked a square, and sponged Peeled Paint, Faded Jeans and Broken China--Tim Holtz Distress Inks.
I stamped the Music Background with Tea Dye over top. The sentiment-Scroll Peace is also stamped with Tea Dye.
It is a great inspiration piece--that could go in sooo many directions. I hope you head on over to the Rubbernecker Stamp Company Blog and add a link to your own card in the comments section.
...and listen...
As I mentioned yesterday, I walk my younger daughter to school and back every day. On the way home after dropping her off, I often see little extra bits of nature. It is not surprising that I see more alone, than I do with dd--for I am able to be a bit more quiet than she can be.
These stamps REALLY remind me of the field that we walk next to right before we get to her school (or when I come out from dropping her off). So this card was inspired by the field--and the grayer days we have been having this week.
I kind of broke a stamping *rule* with this card. Normally I use a waterproof ink to stamp the images that I am going to watercolor. But with this card, I colored the stamp with water-based ink and then carefully watercolored some of the areas. I love the subtle look this gives.
The stamps are images from the Bees Sheet from Starving Artistamps. The sentiment is from Faith sentiments set.
So if you have a moment, take a walk outside--even just to get the mail. Enjoy the sounds and sights of the day.
One of the biggest joys of this autumn is walking my dd to Pre-Kindergarten every day. We have LOVED watching the leaves change. One day a tree will be green--the next it is full flaming color. We love walking through crunchy leaves, and we have noticed the acorns on the last leg of our walk along a row of oak trees.
Today's card was inspired by the acorns along that walk.
Materials:
Stamps: acorn from the Bees Sheet from Starving Artistamps;
Papers: 29th St. Market DP; Really Rust (SU!); Watercolor paper;
Inks: VersaMark; various Tim Holtz Distress Inks for watercoloring;
Accessories: brads, tracing wheel; foam tape; copper embossing powder;
Thanks for stopping by--I hope you have a beautiful autumn weekend!
I decided to try yet another sketch from the Verve Holiday Release Sketch Blitz. This time it is #4!
I turned it upside down and came up with this:
This beautiful flower is from the Bees Sheet from Starving Artistamps. I embossed it with gold on watercolor paper and watercolored it with Distress Ink Re-Inkers.
The dp is some Anna Griffin paper that I have been hoarding for a long time (it has made two house moves). I figured it was time to cut into it!!
A couple of enabling notes: don't forget to check out the new Christmas DoodleFactory stamps. AND the discount code: savetenJS to save 10%!
I hope your weekend is full of serenity!
You NEED to check these out! The NEW DoodleFactory Christmas release!!
AND new Sentiments to go with them! Can you say CUUUUTE!!
More details on the shipping dates, prices, deals, and a chance to win them on the Starving Artistamps Blog.
If you don't win the stamps--don't forget that I have a discount code for you: savetenJS which will help you save 10% at check out (on DoodleFactory and Starving Artistamps stamps).
I will be back on later today with a card from the new Bees Sheet stamps!
