Cupid Valentine's Card ~ Red Rubber Designs DT

     Have you made your Valentine's cards yet? I combined rubber and digital stamping on this card that I made for my son. 

     The cupid heart was downloaded and printed from the new Pickled Potpourri Designs shop on Etsy, using the Vintage Heart Collages Digital Stamp. After cutting it from white cardstock, I gave it a coat of Lindy's Gang (Angel Wings Gold) Embossing Powder.

     The rest of the stamping was done with my rubber stamps from Red Rubber Designs, starting with the script on the background, using the Beauty of a Woman Unmounted Rubber Stamp. Then I colored it with some Lindy's Sprays (Cafe au Lait and Blazing Sun), creating a shadow behind the heart with (Black Orchid Silver) and Stickles (Black Diamond), and making clouds from cotton balls. The sentiment was embossed with the Contemporary Greetings Stamp, and the small hearts with the I Heart You Stamp. 

     Finally, the arrows were embossed using the Elegant Arrows Cling Mounted Stamp onto cream cardstock, with Emerald Creek (Black Cherry) Embossing Powder, also used with the other stamps and card base.

Thanks for looking!

   

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Featured Red Rubber Designs Stamps:

Beauty of a Woman

Contemporary Greetings

I Heart You

Elegant Arrows

Featured Pickled Potpourri Designs Digital Stamps:

Vintage Heart Collages

Challenges Entered:

Emerald Creek Dares ~ Hello, you beautiful thing #ECFEB2019

Emerald Creek Black Cherry Aroma Embossing Powder

Country View Challenges ~ Black & White Plus One (Cream)

A Vintage Journey ~ Your Heart's Desire Challenge

The Artistic Stamper ~ Heart It!

Double "D" Challenges ~ Hearts

Crafty Calendar Challenge ~ Add Texture and Ribbon

Crafty Cardmakers ~ #227 Love, Love, Love

Hearts Thank You Card ~ Red Rubber Designs DT

     I just heart my new Magical's by Lindy's Stamp Gang! I ordered them on accident, as I thought I was getting the sprays, and almost returned them when they came in the mail, but my curiosity took over, and I decided to give them a try. Now I must have them in all colors! Lol! That's what I was afraid of! Lol! Little magical jars of powder that I'm still learning how to use. But the very first thing I tried, of course, was stamping. With just a little bit of powder mixed with water, I applied them onto some hearts from the I Heart You stamp set from Red Rubber Designs, and just stamped them onto white cardstock that was misted with some blues first. I was really surprised at the intensity of the colors, and had so much fun creating this card!

     My design inspiration came from this awesome sketch used for this month's Card Challenge at Scrapbook.com.

     I also used my Magicals to stamp the arrow using the Elegant Arrows stamp set. Then I embossed "Thank You", and used Palette Inks for the rest of the sentiment. I was so happy to find that this fiber matched the colors perfectly, so I used it as a border, then added some machine stitching, twine, and a button to finish it up. It was so quick and easy to do!

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Red Rubber Designs Stamps:

I Heart You

Elegant Arrows

Challenges:

Simon Says Monday ~ Love Is In The Air + Use Red

The Artistic Stamper Creative Team Blog ~ Anything Goes!

January Card Challenge @ Scrapbook.com

Thanks for stopping by! 

Robin Hood Layout ~ Red Rubber Designs DT

     I just love my son's Robin Hood costume from a couple of Halloween's ago, and had a blast scrapping these photos of him, featuring some stamps from Red Rubber Designs!

     My design inspiration came from this beautiful sketch no. 62 used for this month's sketch challenge at Scrap Africa. I finished just in time, and was so excited to finally use my wood grain stencil to create the background wood planks, which just screamed out to me from the sketch. I used most of the elements here including the vine and leaves, strip of smaller pics, and the bullseye.

     But all of the colors were inspired by this month's Color Challenge at Lindy's Stamp Gang!

     I love this gorgeous fall color combo, and used it to make the background wood planks, with the Tim Holtz Woodgrain Stencil and some gesso applied to white textured cardstock. After it dried overnight, the fun began with all of these Lindy's Stamp Gang Sprays! I also used these for some of the green fibers, the cardstock circles to make the bullseye, the brown felt under the big photo that started out tan, and the stamped frame that I made for the date, which I colored with a paintbrush.

Yellow Rose of Texas

Golden Doubloons

Hag's Wart Orange

Poinciana Red Flame

Rudolph's Nose Red

Cathedral Pines Green

Cajun Carnelian Red 

Mission Bells Brown

     All of the cool metal effects on here came from Lindy's Stamp Gang Embossing Powders! I used Midnight Copper Obsidian and Twilight Bronze Slate to emboss all of the brads, the frame and date, arrows, around the inner circles for the bullseye, and to cover the Thickers that spell "take". I used some more sprays to make the background for the arrows which were stamped and embossed with the Elegant Arrows stamp from Red Rubber Designs.

     To make the bullseye I cut come circles using every color from the Lindy's Stamp Gang photo, with my Cricut Expression. Then I distressed the edges, added embossing powder to the inner circles, and Stickles on the outside for some shimmer. I finished it off by hand stitching the black circles in the middle.

      For the date I used the Mini Bet stamp, onto black cardstock, framed with the Rose Wine Labels stamp, which I hung with some striped ribbon and a brad.

     To make the vine I used some fibers and yarn and twined them together. Then I embossed the leaves with the Place In My Heart stamp using Rangers Topiary Embossing Powder. On about half of the leaves I applied Lime Stickles, for some more sparkle, which just doesn't translate as well in these photos as it does in real life!  Thanks for taking a peek!

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     Red Rubber Designs Stamps Used:

Rose Wine Labels

Elegant Arrows

Place In My Heart

Mini Bet

Have a great day!