Happy Leaf Birthday Card ~ Red Rubber Designs DT

     Happy Thursday! I'm back with a card featuring the Happy Leaf Unmounted Rubber Stamp from Red Rubber Designs, just in time for the upcoming Fall season.

     Wanting to experiment more with my Distress Oxide Inks, I created the background with them, in addition to some regular Distress Inks, by smooshing the inks with water onto white cardstock. Then I used the same Oxide Inks (Peeled Paint, Spiced Marmalade, and Vintage Photo) to stamp the leaves and sentiment with the Happy Leaf Stamp, and embossed it with clear embossing powder.

     Since this card is a little smaller than my usual ones, I wanted to add lots of texture, so I backed it with some burlap, and added some fibers, including the strands I took form the burlap to fringe the edges.

     Finally, I finished it up with some hand-stitching.

          Thanks for stopping by, and get the Happy Leaf stamp, and many others at Red Rubber Designs!

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Featured Red Rubber Designs Stamps:

Happy Leaf

Challenges Entered:

Simon Says Monday Challenge ~ Stamp It On

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge ~ Stamp On It

Stamping Sensations ~ Beginning with B (Burlap, Button, Brown, and Birthday)

Crafty Creations ~ #373 Anything Goes

House of Cards  ~ Birthday Theme or Colors

Thanksgiving Card ~ Red Rubber Designs DT

     Happy Sunday scrappers! I'm sharing this Thanksgiving card featuring a few stamps from Red Rubber Designs, since it's less than two weeks away now.

     I took my design inspiration from the November Card Sketch Challenge @ Scrapbook. com, using Sketch #4.

     The colors were inspired by The Mixed Media Monthly Challenge #30 with this beautiful Fall color combo.

      To loosely mimic the rocks from the image, I combined black and white gesso applied to TCW Well Rounded Stencil onto my background. Once dry, I went over it with a few sprays and mists, which produced a fabulous shimmer. I tucked a couple of stamped Sunflowers behind my main image, stamped with the Arboretum Collage Cling Mounted Stamp, colored again with sprays and mists.

 
     The sentiment was stamped with the Contemporary Greetings Unmounted Rubber Stamp Set, which covers most holidays and occasions, and is a must for all card makers!

     

     All of the leaves were stamped, fussy-cut, and curled using the Nothing Is Better Unmounted Rubber Stamp Set.

     

Thanks for stopping by!

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Red Rubber Designs Stamps:

Arboretum Collage

Sunflowers

Contemporary Greetings

Nothing Is Better

Challenges:

The Mixed Media Monthly Challenge

Scrapbook. com ~ November Card Sketch Challenge

The Mixed Media Card Challenge 

Try it on Tuesday ~ Trees are green or any other color

The Artistic Stamper ~ November Autumnal

Thanksgiving Card Preview ~ Red Rubber Designs DT

     With Thanksgiving just a couple of weeks away, I created a card featuring the Arboretum Collage Cling Mounted Stamp, along with a few other Unmounted Rubber Stamps from Red Rubber Designs. Behind the main image I stamped Sunflowers, the leaves were stamped with Nothing Is Better, and the sentiment using Contemporary Greetings. Here's a quick peek of just one of my photos, with my card and process posted on today's Red Rubber Designs Blog.

Thanks for visiting!

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Red Rubber Designs Stamps:

Arboretum Collage

Sunflowers

Nothing Is Better

Contemporary Greetings

Happy Birthday Fall Card ~ Red Rubber Designs DT

     Happy first day of Fall, my favorite time of the year!! And a special Happy Birthday to my little sister, who unfortunately, won't be getting this card today, as I sent it out late. So hopefully she isn't seeing this right now. Lol!

     I made her this card inspired by this beautiful Sketch #131 @ Cardabilities!

   

     After misting some kraft cardstock, I used a doily stencil to apply some yellow texture paste. Then I painted the round chipboard, and stamped the lines with the Punctuation stamp from Red Rubber Designs. For the birthday sentiment I used the Savvy Sayings stamp, then wrapped it with some fibers, adding a couple of buttons inherited from my late grandma and great grandma. 

     I inked and sprayed the green scallops and added some brown beads to them. To make the leaves, I inked some white cardstock with Distress Inks, stamped them with the Filled With Blessings stamp, fussy cut them, and curled them up for dimension, adding them to the hand stitched branches. Since Autumn leaves is the theme for the Fantasy Stampers Challenge, I'll also be entering it there. 

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Red Rubber Designs Stamps:

Punctuation

Savvy Sayings

Filled With Blessings

Thanks for your visit!

Inspirational #144: Fall Foliage

     I just LOVE fall, and since my parents 43rd anniversary was a couple of weeks ago, I decided to make them a fall themed card for Inspirational #144, to use fall foliage.

     I took my inspiration from bonus sketch #6 used for the October Card Sketch Challenge @ Scrapbook.com. 

       All of the papers are an older line, Beautiful Life, from Bo Bunny and is still one of my favorites! I started out by making the wreath from a ring of paper, which I wrapped and glued with rafia, adding orange fiber around the outside.  Then I stamped and embossed the leaves using the Filled With Blessings stamp set from Red Rubber Designs.  Inside of the wreath and the swirly background were stamped with Autumn Swirls. The anniversary sentiment was done using Contemporary Greetings, and I added the label plate over Anniversary, which I got as a RAK from my scrappy friend Lisa. So thank you Lisa! 

    And THANK YOU for visiting my blog!