Happy Birthday Shaker Card ~ Red Rubber Designs DT

     I recently made a shaker card for the first time, and immediately went to work on another one for my son's birthday next month. He's going to be 14, so I went with a more grungy look, with a space background on the shaker, using stamps from Red Rubber Designs!

     Starting with white cardstock, I applied gesso onto my diamond stencil,and let it dry. Then I sprayed some aqua and my new silver sprays on top, since aqua is my son's favorite color. Using a permanent black ink, I then stamped different phrases with the Be Happiness  stamp, and his birthday using the Mini-Bet stamp, which I also used with teal ink to stamp 14 in random spots.

    The circles on the background were embossed with the Background Soup stamp. I also embossed the Lotsa Dotsa stamp, and added some buttons in the centers.

     To create the large diamond on the background, I masked some drywall tape with black ink, added some embossing powder, and machine stitched two rows of stitching in metallic silver and teal threads. Then I made the background of the diamond shaker with black cardstock misted with a few sprays to look like outer space. To make the stars I embossed the Speckle Background stamp with silver embossing powder, as well as the sentiment, which was done with the Savvy Sayings stamp. I cut the frame from silver cardstock, where I also did some embossing using the Background Soup stamp, adding some brads in the corners. Behind the frame I added a piece of clear packaging, and attached it to the double sided tape along the background, after filling it with some glitter. So fun!!!

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Red Rubber Designs Stamps:

Lotsa Dotsa

Be Happiness

Savvy Sayings

Background Soup

Speckle Background

Mini-Bet

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      Challenges:

     Anything But Cute Challenge

Challenge #9 Ring out the old, bring in the new ~ I used my new Lindy's Stamp Gang Sprays (Brushed Nickel and Black Orchid Silver) and embossing powders (Hyacinth Blue Jade and Queen Sheba's Silver) that I got for Christmas.

Fantasy Stampers

#54 All about the boy

Try it on Tuesday

Letters and Numbers ~ Stamped various phrases all over the background, the sentiment, my son's birthday and the number 14.

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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!

Inspirational #125 ~ Emboss It!

    I'm hosting this week at Red Rubber Inspirationals, with Inspirational #125 ~ to emboss your stamping! I did a lot of that on this vintage layout that I made of my late, Great Grandmother.

I took my inspiration from this beautiful Page Drafts sketch, with a focus on blooms and foliage. 

I was also inspired by this fabulous mood board that Denise came up with at Flying Unicorn for the Mood Board Challenge. 

    I used Palette Ink (Burnt Sienna) to stamp the Victorian Vines Background onto the banners, which I misted with Lindy's Stamp Gang Sprays onto white cardstock. I used the same ink to stamp the date using Mini-Bet. The title was embossed with Distress Embossing Powder (Walnut Stain) using Distressed Typewriter Bet. 

    For the small flowers I used white embossing powder using Pressed Flowers. The rest of the embossing was done with Distress Embossing Powder (Vintage Photo) to emboss the tag with Reinforcers,  the sunflowers using Nothing is Better, and for the flourishes which were embossed onto light blue vellum using Bold Flourishes. I also embossed the brads on the small flowers, and the eyelets using Distress Embossing Powder ( Broken China).

    I used rope inked with Palette Ink (Burnt Sienna) to lace up the eyelets. I finished it up with some machine stitching. 

Thanks for looking!