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

Eclectic Rainbow Card ~ Red Rubber Designs DT

     I always have fun when I'm playing with color, and used the rainbow to create this card with Distress Inks and stamps from Red Rubber Designs!

     My design inspiration came from Sketch #150 at Feeling Sketchy, as I love combining cards with tags.

     I started with a Tim Holtz Manilla Tag that I applied Distress Inks (Candied Apple, Spiced Marmalade, Mustard Seed, Mowed Lawn, Blueprint Sketch, and Wilted Violet) to with my blending tool. Then I dripped water from a paintbrush over each color, and let it run down the tag. Once dry, I stamped the dragonflies using the Everyday Eclectic Unmounted Rubber Stamp Set. Then I stamped and layered my flower on top with the Nothing Is Better Unmounted Rubber Stamp Set, coloring it with Distress Inks. Behind the tag I used Distress Inks again onto white cardstock, blended my colors, (Salty Ocean, Blueprint Sketch, and Wilted Violet) and used black gesso to create the stripes with the Tim Holtz Stripes Stencil. Behind the stripes I used a piece of green mesh that I had saved from some fruit. I can never throw those away. Lol!

     I used the same ink and dripping water technique on the pocket, machine stitching the edges in black. The striped gesso piece was stitched along the edges with a rainbow thread. Then I stamped the black flower with the Natural Dream Cling Mounted Rubber Stamp, and the smaller flowers with the Floral Collage Cling Mounted Rubber Stamp. 

      Finally, for the sentiment, I used the Darling Unmounted Rubber Stamp Set, stamped in black. 

Thanks for your visit!

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Red Rubber Designs Stamps:

Everyday Eclectic

Natural Dream

Floral Collage

Nothing Is Better

Darling

Challenges:

The Mixed Media Card Challenge ~ #26 Rainbow

Stamps and Stencils ~ Time To Take Flight

Feeling Sketchy ~ Sketch #150

More Mixed Media Challenge ~ "Anything Goes" Optional Bright Colors 

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!

Inspirational #112 ~ Color in the lines

I'm hosting this week @ Red Rubber Inspirationals , with Inspirational #112 to color in the lines of your stamping using inks, chalks, markers, paints, colored pencils, Stickles, etc. I scrapped these photos of Eagle Falls in Lake Tahoe, to compliment the Majestic Mountain stamp set using the Willoughby Patterned Cardstock Collection.

I started by inking my image with Ranger Archival Ink (potting soil) and Palette Inks (landscape and jardin moss). Then I used Pebbles Inc. chalks to color in the mountains, rocks, and sky. I finished it off with Stickles (stardust) on the snow and waterfall, and (lime green) for the centers of the flowers.

I stamped the large flowers using the Nothing is better stamp and colored the centers with brown chalk. For some texture I embossed the Speckle background over the centers using Distress Embossing Powder (vintage photo). The smaller flowers were stamped and water distressed using Pressed Flowers. I stamped "eagle" using Distressed Typewriter Bet. I used gesso and Tim Holtz' Stripes Stencil to make the waterfall on the right, and the Cargo Stencil to write "falls" with a white pen.

The bark is from Mother Nature herself, which I thought would be perfect for a nature page to use the colors green and brown for Category 2 in the March Four Categories Challenge @ Scrapbook.com. This also my entry for the March Creative Titles Challenge .

And for Rochelle Spears March Tic Tac Toe Challenge.

I used the first row on top.

bird ~ the sticker of an eagle Bo bunny (trailmix)

border strips ~ I used 4 strips of pp 

paint ~ I used Ranger Dabber (lettuce) on the green paper and brown glimmer mist.

Thanks for looking!