Green Best Wishes Card ~ Red Rubber Designs DT

     My parents recently got their genealogy results done, and found out that my Dad has a little Irish in him, which we never knew. He's also battling cancer, and just had his 3rd stroke, so I wanted his birthday card to be extra special. So I combined some of my Red Rubber Designs stamps with some gesso, sprays, and embossing powders to create this lucky card full of love and hope!

     The first thing I did was to make the lake from white gesso, using a palette knife to create ripples. Then I colored it and the background with some Lindy's Sprays (Cathedral Pines Green, Frosty Forest Green, Freaky Frankenlime, Ocean Breeze Blue, and Tibetan Poppy Teal). I added a few more layers of spray to the water, followed by Prima Art Alchemy Paints (Mermaid Sparkle and Magical Pond), and clear embossing powder. Along the edges of the lake, I adhered some green glitter. 

     The trees were inked in black, with some embossed with Lindy's Gang (Angel Wings Peacock) EP using the Tree Silhouettes and Mountain Scenery Stamps. 

     The shamrocks were stamped and embossed with the Celtic Images Stamp, with some rhinestones added to the centers. The gold embossing was done with Ranger (Gold Tinsel).Then I embossed the sentiment with the Sophisticated Sentiments Stamp using Emerald Creek (Black Cherry) EP. 

     Thanks for visiting, and get these stamps and more at Red Rubber Designs!

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Featured Red Rubber Designs Stamps:

Tree Silhouettes

Mountain Scenery

Celtic Images

Sophisticated Sentiments

Challenges Entered:

Art Daily Cafe ~ March Mood Board

Feeling Sketchy ~ Sketch #212

More Mixed Media Challenge ~ Anything Goes with optional Green

The Artistic Stamper ~ March Color it Green

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge ~ Create a Scene

Crafty Cardmakers ~ #229 Make It Green

Mix It Up Challenge ~ #23 Anything Goes + Inked Background

Let's Craft and Create ~ AG + Option Green Things

Tuesday Throwdown ~ #437 Good Luck

Father's Day Card ~ Red Rubber Designs DT

     I wanted to get an early start on Father's Day, so I made this card for my dad featuring stamps from Red Rubber Designs! Since my dad's always attracting animals, and especially birds, I thought the See Beauty stamp would be perfect for him.

     I stamped and layered the duck image twice with white and kraft cardstock, colored it with Distress Inks, and used some brown sprays on the kraft background. To the background of the image, I added some stamped trees with the Tree Silhouettes stamp, and colored the trunks and branches with a marker. Then I attached a small silver brad to the compass on the left.

     For the sentiment, I used the Contemporary Greetings stamp onto a piece of kraft cardstock that I added some LSG Magicals (Sandra Dee Sepia and Greased Lightnin' Green) to, giving it some great texture. I also used the Sepia Magical with some brown sprays added to some clear gesso to a strip of drywall tape along the bottom.

            Thanks for looking, and be sure to shop Red Rubber Designs for some amazing stamps at great prices!

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Red Rubber Designs Stamps:

See Beauty

Tree Silhouettes

Contemporary Greetings

Challenges:

Simon Says Monday Challenge ~ Show us your metal (I used a small silver brad)

Fantastic Fall Tag ~ Red Rubber Designs DT

      Fall is in the air with this fantastic tag that I made featuring stamps from Red Rubber Designs! To see the full tag and directions on how to make it, please visit the Red Rubber Designs Blog.

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Red Rubber Designs Stamps:

Tree Silhouettes

Pumpkins and Acorns

Autumn Swirls

Autumn Leaves

Have a great day!!!

Inspirational #221 ~ Red Rubber Designs DT

     It's time to shape up, with Inspirational #221, at Red Rubber Inspirationals! I'm hosting this week and would love to see any type of stamped shape. I used circles for both of my examples, starting with this card that I made for a few other challenges as well.

     This sketch at Viva La Verve was perfect to try the Bokeh effect for the first time for the May challenge at House of Cards!

     I started with some white cardstock, and inked the background with yellow, black, and grey Distress Inks. Then I used a circle stencil with some white ink, and stamped the smaller circles using the Background Soup stamp. I used Circles of Love to emboss the silver dots, and for the buttons, which I popped up and added some brads to. The circles overlapping the image in the middle are cut from white and silver vellum. I used some grey ink to create the road, and stamped Tree Silhouettes along the sides, taking inspiration from this photo used for the May Stamping Challenge @ Scrapbook. com. 

     For my next card I also used the Background Soup stamp, but with yellow paint, to create the small circles. All of the papers are from an older Bo Bunny (Flower Child) collection. I used Butterfly Flourish to stamp the butterfly and flourish. The butterfly was colored with Distress Inks and a coat of Yellow Stickles, which gave the wings a natural curl. Unfortunately, my sentiment got a little smudged, but it kinda goes with the distressed, shabby look I was going for, so I just left it alone. I stamped "Happy" using Sophisticated Sentiments, and "Mother's Day" using Contemporary Greetings. 

      I finished it up with some more Stickles to the flower stickers, and flowers on the stamped flourish. 

Thanks for your visit, and have a great day!

Love this beautiful life ~ Inspirational # 128

   Since anything goes for this week's Inspirational #128, hosted by Lynda, for Red Rubber Inspirationals, I decided to scrap this photo of Fanny Bridge, in Tahoe City, for a few other challenges as well.

   I was instantly drawn to these beautiful, summer, colors used for the July Design Seeds Challenge @ Scrapbook.com!

My design inspiration came from this fabulous Sketch # 118 from Sketchabilities!

    I got messy with some mixed media for category 1, for the July Four Categories Challenge @ Scrapbook.com. I started by smearing gesso on the background, creating little waves with a plastic fork, and then spraying over it with some Glimmer Mists, (Bahama Blue and Bubble Light Green) and Lindy's Stamp Gang Spray (Tibetan Poppy Teal). Then I tore around the edges of the white brick paper, (KaiserCraft  ~BaseCoat) and painted them a green color that I mixed myself. I used my sewing machine to create the wavy border, and for the butterfly antennae, which I printed from Swirlydoos. From Red Rubber Designs, I stamped Tree Silhouettes along the top of the photo. 

I made the frame on the bottom, sprayed it with some mists, and then added Ranger Verdigris Embossing powder. I used Ranger seafoam white embossing powder on the So Splattered stamps. The Script Background was inked with Burnt Umber Palette Ink. I used Mini Bet to stamp Fanny Bridge, Tahoe City, and CA. 

Enjoy your weekend!

Inspirational #116: Back to Nature

      We're getting back to nature this week at Red Rubber Inspirationals, with Inspirational  #116, hosted by yours truly!  I made this scenic card with lots of  water distressing, misting, inking, hand stitching, and of course stamping. 

 

   I was inspired by sketch #4 used for the April Card Sketch Challenge @ Scrapbook. com. 

   I started by misting the kraft cardstock with a trash bag to create texture in the background. Then I stamped the trees and grass using Tree Silhouettes and Mountain Scenery with Palette Inks (Jardin Moss and Burnt Sienna). The bear image was stamped using Something Marvelous, and colored in with Distress Inks and watercolor pencils. The flower was a leftover from my stash of homemade flowers, and I added a brown pearl to it.

Thanks for looking! I'd love to see how you get back to nature, and hope you'll join us at Red Rubber Inspirationals!