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

Under The Sea Father's Day Card ~ Red Rubber Designs DT

     I had so much fun with some mixed media to create this card for my husband! My California guy loves the beach, so I started with some watercolor paper and applied gesso with TCW "Texurized" stencil to make my ocean. Then I placed a piece of Artist's Tape along the top to keep it free from all of the various mists and LSG sprays that I used to make the ocean and sand. After removing the tape, I used Distress Inks to color the sky, and some water to create clouds. Then I used the same stencil with some brown ink to make the rocks in the water. Once dry I applied some clear gesso for texture, and used some more inks over it. Then to make reflections in the water, I used the same stencil again, turned upside down, and inked in a dark blue right below the rocks. I also used Clear Wink Of Stella over the reflections to give it a little shimmer, which is kinda hard to see here.

     The seaweed was stamped with the Under The Sea stamp set from Red Rubber Designs, colored with Distress Inks, and given some sparkle with Clear Wink Of Stella. Then I machine stitched around the edges, and added some fiber which I also colored with sprays to match the seaweed. For some sandy texture on the shore, I used Distress Embossing Powder (Brushed Corduroy), which is a GREAT sand color, then scattered and glued the little seashells.

   
     To the base of my card I added layers of mulberry papers, which I haven't  used in YEARS! But I love the look of the torn edges, and the colors were perfect for my image! Before adding my image though, I used my new TCW Stencil "Nautical Chains" to mask the netting on the right with dark brown ink, then Distress Embossing Powder "Brushed Corduroy" again. Then on the bottom left corner I used white embossing powder with the So Splattered Cling Mounted Stamp.

     Then sentiment was done using the Contemporary Greetings Unmounted Stamp, stamping happy with brown ink, and the rest embossed in white.

Thanks so much for stopping by, and have a great day!

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Red Rubber Designs Stamps:

Contemporary Greetings

Under the Sea (No longer available in the rubber stamp, but available in the digital store)

Challenges:

The Mixed Media Card Challenge ~ #23 Reflections

Scrapbook.com ~ May Inspirational Card Challenge

Water Lily Mother's Day Card ~ Red Rubber Designs DT

     I was so excited to try my first digital stamp from Pickled Potpourri Designs, which is the digital side of Red Rubber Designs! It was super fast and easy to print out the Water Lily stamp onto white cardstock, and lots of fun to color it in with Distress Inks and some sparkle with Wink of Stella. To the water background I added Eucalyptus Stickles for even more sparkle!

     My design inspiration came from this beautiful sketch #5 used for this month's Card Challenge @ Scrapbook.com.

     The wood strips and background were created with gesso, sprays, paints, and stencils. Then I followed some of the lines of the grid with my sewing machine. To the main image I hand-stitched a circle, adding some ribbon and green fiber along the bottom.

     

     Then I added my stamped Beautiful Butterflies, which I also colored with Distress Inks, fussy-cutting and layering them together. For the sentiment I used Contemporary Greetings, which has a great variety of sentiments to cover the major holidays throughout the year, as well as birthday and sympathy. 

Thanks for looking! 

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Red Rubber Designs Stamps:

Beautiful Butterflies

Contemporary Greetings

Pickled Potpourri Designs:

Water Lily

Challenges:

Simon Says Stamp Blog ~ Butterfly Beauty

Try it on Tuesday ~ Mood Board ( I took my inspiration from the water and lily)