Splashes of Watercolor

I just couldn’t resist this stamp when I found it at Hobby Lobby for 50% off! And it’s perfect for the birthday card I needed for my friend, Bubbles, who just turned 50 years young!!

She’s a bright and cheerful person, so I wanted the card to be that way too!

I chose paper from the Pocket Full of Posies Matstack by DCWV and then picked papers and inks to coordinate.

I used Almost Amethyst as the card base and cut the patterned piece into 4 pieces, spacing them evenly on the front of the base.

The image is stamped in Versafine Onyx Black ink on watercolor paper and painted with Stampin’ Up! markers and a waterbrush.

I added Stardust Stickles to the photo corners and the orange flower, but in this picture you can’t see the sparkle because I had to take the picture before they dried!

She loved her card….and the hot pink crocs and cell phone croc that went along with it!

Thanks so much for stopping by! See you next time! Have a great day!

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Stamps: Know Too Much - Stampabilities

Paper: watercolor paper, almost amethyst, Pocket Full of Posies Matstack - DCWV

Ink: Versafine Onyx Black

Accessories: waterbrush, photo corner punch, piercing tool & mat, horizontal slot punch, ribbon, mounting tape, Stardust Stickles

All items in green are from Stampin’ Up!

SU Markers used: banana, saffron, caramel, cocoa, celery, garden green, pumpkin, blush, rust, amethyst, lavender, going gray

All items in orange are from Rubbernecker Stamp Co.

I love inchies! I’ve been playing along in the Inchie Inkling monthly challenge, and this is my April entry for inchies focused on food.

The Lockhart Fruit Bowl stamp was perfect for this challenge and it pairs so well with the Stampin’ Up! Summer Picnic DSP which I love!

I actually only stamped and colored the fruit bowl once, then punched out the portion with the grapes. Well I couldn’t just toss out the rest of the image, so I punched out another portion and made a second card using the same elements and layout. I just switched up the colors and the placement of the focal image & sentiment.

The inchies were stamped on white cardstock and colored with Copic markers, then glued onto inchie chipboard squares. I glued tiny strips of the green striped paper around the edges of the chipboard. The frames were made by punching out a square with the 1-1/4″ square punch, then centering that in the scalloped square punch. The blue DSP background for each frame was punched with the 1-3/8″ square punch. The frames were attached using mounting foam tape to raise them up to the same level as the chipboard squares.

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Ahem! I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but my blog header is a little out of date since it says “spring”!! I’m up for suggestions on sites that have free packages to download for creating a new banner. Your help would be appreciated!

Thank you for visiting today. I look forward to seeing you next time!

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Stamps: Fruit Bowl - Lockhart Stamps, sentiment from Faux Ribbon - Papertrey Ink

Paper: white, bashful blue, Summer Picnic DSP

Ink: Palette Hybrid Noir for image, Versafine Onyx Black for sentiment

Accessories: Inchie chipboard, Copic markers, Ranger Glossy Accents, sanding stick, 1″ square punch, 1-3/8″ square punch, Giga scallop square punch, mounting tape

All items in orange can be found at Ellen Hutson’s store

All items in purple are from Stampin’ Up!

All items in green are from Rubbernecker Stamp Co.

It’s WendyP!!!

Congratulations, Wendy!  I hope you enjoy spending your Rubbernecker Bucks!!!

Sherry, Jeanne and I are having a blast!  We spent a little time in Savannah, GA on the way down yesterday…lunch by the river and a very short tour around the city.  We’ve been hanging out at Kittie’s house today.  We’ll be setting up for the show tomorrow and working the Rubbernecker booth Friday and Saturday.

I sure hope I get to meet a few of my SCS and blogger friends at the show!  Are you coming?  If so, please stop by to see us!

Kittie will be demonstrating her new Kittie Kits!  Have you seen them????

Hi there!  I’m on the road with Sherry and Jeanne, headed to Kittie’s house and Stampfest in Orlando this weekend!  Woo hoo!  What fun!  I wonder if I’ll survive??!!

Be sure to check back later.  I’ll pick a blog candy winner either tonight or tomorrow morning - depending on when I can get to a computer!

HEAD OVER TO SHERRY, JEANNE, OR KITTIE’S BLOGS TODAY FOR A VERY, VERY SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT AND REVEAL!!!!!

Here we are again - another Tuesday! Let’s go~

RUBBERNECKER - RBC15

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Are you ready for the Rubbernecker Treasure Hunt?

All you have to do is head over to the Rubbernecker Home Page and start with the first clue. You can also read about all the details there, in case you’re new to the Treasure Hunt. So head over there, matey, and find that free rubbah!

Today is also Rubbernecker Blogger Challenge day! Today’s challenge is a sketch. You can find it HERE and all the details for all the blogger challenges on Jeanne’s blog on this page.

Here’s my card using the sketch and another beautiful image from Jeanne’s own stamp collection (Jeanne Streiff Collection):

The name of this stamp set is Flora & Flairs and it’s gorgeous! The images are silhouettes but you can paint, ink or color the stamp and it’s no longer just a silhouette! So versatile!

I inked the flower with Ranger Distress tattered rose ink and dabbed the tea dye ink pad on it. Then I inked the leaves with old paper ink and dabbed the peeled paint ink pad on them. Stamped the image on blush paper and voila! A watercolored image! I cut and embossed the oval with my Nestabilties and, leaving the die on the cardstock, sponged around the edges with tea dye ink.

The right edge of the guava layer was punched with a Martha Stewart Simple Scallop punch. I added aqua Stickles to the larger holes at each scallop edge.

I sewed the patterned paper to the guava cardstock after sponging the edges of both pieces with brushed corduroy ink. Then I tied the guava ribbon around the layers and added another knot of kraft ribbon and a decorative pin.

The sentiment was stamped with tea dye ink.

You can play along too! Simply upload your card or project using Rubbernecker images and the sketch and link it to Jeanne’s blog post for today. If you post to SCS, please use the keyword code RBC15. You’ll have a chance to win the monthly drawing for a $25 Rubbernecker Bucks gift certificate!

Kittie and I have BLOG CANDY today!!! Leave me a comment telling me what your favorite summer beverage is, with recipes if it’s really, really good!!

There’s also some big news and a big reveal tomorrow, so be sure to check back then!

Here are links to the other design team members. Be sure to check out their challenge cards:

• Candy
• Jeanne
• Kittie
• Leigh
• Linda
• Shelly
• Sherry
• Tami

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Stamps: Flora & Flairs, Swirl Flourish - Jeanne Streiff Collection; Petite Words Set - Stamp Oasis

Paper: blush blossom, groovy guava, close to cocoa, Splendor patterned paper - Autumn Leaves by Rhonna Farrer

Ink: Ranger Distress inks - tattered rose, tea dye, old paper, peeled paint, brushed corduroy

Accessories: Martha Stewart Simple Scallop punch, oval Nestabilities, Cuttlebug, ribbons, decorative pin, sewing machine, distress tool, sponge dauber, Ranger blending tool, Ranger Stickles - aqua, mounting tape

All items listed in this color can be found at Rubbernecker Stamp Co.

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JACKSONBELLE EMBELLISHMENTS - JBE008

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Today’s Jacksonbelle Embellishments challenge card is a bright one. Don’t even ask me how much I LOVE this Inkadinkado Duet stamp or the fantastic Cosmo Cricket Hello Sunshine paper! No, I said don’t ask. I’m speechless with how much I am in love with both of these, and together…oh my! It’s just a good thing the drool didn’t get all over this card!

The challenge for today was “Anything goes!”. Whoop, whoop! I love that kind of challenge! I was just dying to use some of this paper. Every design in this collection is bright and warm and happy! Would you look at how it’s already got a decorative bottom edge! There’s almost no need for any embellishments, because it could pretty much stand on it’s own as far as an eye-pleasing element is concerned. (You can click on the photo to see a larger version.)

The bird duo is just adorable! I’ve named them Sam and Junior! I do believe that Sam is telling Junior a thing or two about what the big, bad world is like! And Junior is in awe of how much Sam knows! (Snort! I must be in my little fantasy world again!)

There’s no need for any instructions on this card. It’s very straightforward. Coloring with Copic markers, cutting and embossing with Nestabilties, piercing, and tying knots. Nothing to it! But I love it!

If you’d like to play along, upload a card using something from Lindsey’s shop, and use the keyword JBE008. Then link your card to Lindsey’s new store blog.

Here are links to the other design team members so you can check out their “Anything Goes” challenge cards:

• Amber
• Beth
• Dee
• Elizebeth
• Erin
• Kisa
• Lila
• Lindsey-owner
• Lynda
  
• Maren

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Stamps: Duet - Inkadinkado, Mixed Messages - Papertrey Ink

Paper: white, black, red textured, Hello Sunshine - Cosmo Cricket

Ink: Palette Hybrid Noir

Accessories: circle Nestabilities, Cuttlebug, Copic markers, piercing tool & mat, Darice Plastic Canvas Circle (template for piercing), ribbons, mounting tape

All items listed in this color are from Jacksonbelle Embellishments.

Copic markers used: Y11, Y06, Y15, YG01, G40, YG06, YR65, BG72, BG09, R22, R27, R29, R59, C1

Well, another month has passed since the last design challenge for the present and past Dirty Dozen girls. Hard to believe!

This month Diane Zechman was our challenge hostess with the mostess and she issued a real doozie of a challenge:

It’s called “Inside & Out”….meaning we had to stamp and decorate both the inside of our card and the outside of the envelope.

Our required element was to make it “patriotic” (interpreted any way we like)

Our restricted element - NO RIBBON

I can still hear the echoes of all the dirty girls saying “OH NO - NO RIBBON????!!!”

Now she gave us all the criteria immediately after our last challenge so I’ve had this information for a month, but do you think I started on it early? Heck no! I just started last night. I did however know ahead of time which stamps I would use.

I chose this really cool stamp called Sam’s Hat, and Celebrate America for the card and the Grand & Petite Flag Stars for the inside of the card and the envelope. They’re all from the Patriotic section at Rubbernecker. I also used the Stars wheel from Stampin’ Up! rolled in silver ink onto the red strip and the envelope (kind of hard to see).

And here’s the inside and the envelope:

So what do you think? Patriotic enough? We also have the option to send our card to the troops and Beate has graciously agreed to accept them and send them to her husband to distribute.

If you’d like to see the designs of all the Dirty Girls, just click on this link: DCIO608

Thanks so much for visiting! I won’t be around for about a week. I’m being kidnapped (willingly of course) by a motley crew (Sherry and Jeanne) next Tuesday, and we’re headed down to Orlando for StampFest. We’ll be hanging out with Kittie and Candy and Jerri Kay will be visiting too! How cool is that??

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Stamps: Sam’s Hat, Celebrate America, Grand & Petite Flag Stars - all from Rubbernecker’s Patriotic section; Star wheel - Stampin’ Up!

Paper: white, real red, blue textured, vellum

Ink: Brilliance Graphite Black & Platinum Planet

Accessories: Copic markers, SU markers, red spica glitter pen, silver stickles, brads, Krylon silver leafing pen, mounting tape

All items in red are from Rubbernecker Stamp Co.

Copic markers used: R05, R24, R29, C1, C3, B21, B24, B29, 0

I couldn’t wait to get home from work today to make a beachy card with today’s color challenge colors! I love this combination! Here’s a link to the challenge: CC171

I don’t have time for much of an explanation, but I really don’t think it’s needed. It’s a simple card. The image squares are inchies. The black squares are punched with a 1-1/4″ square punch. The soft sky textured layer and the sentiment layer were attached with mounting tape.

All images and ink are from Rubbernecker Stamp Co.

Thanks for stopping by to look!!

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Stamps: all from Rubbernecker Beach Party 2 section

Paper: shimmery white, kraft, soft sky textured, black textured

Ink: Palette Hybrid Ink

Accessories: Copic markers - B000, C7; 1″ and 1-1/4″ square punches, rectangle Nestabilties, Cuttlebug, ribbon, linen thread

Good morning everyone! I can’t believe it’s Tuesday again already. My, how the weeks fly by and the weekends pass much too quickly!

I’d like to thank you all again for participating in my blog candy giveaway. (I’ve got to think of a more distinct name for that. Any suggestions?) I wish I could have sent you all a goody!

Let’s get started!

RUBBERNECKER

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You know…sometimes I just like living in a fantasy world! It never hurts to dream of princesses, dragons and castles does it? How about pirates too?

Today (4am -9pm PST) is Tuesday Treasure Hunt day at Rubbernecker Stamp Co! For Treasure Hunt details and the first clue —-> Click HERE to go the Rubbernecker Home Page. Treasure Hunt Blog Candy is being offered by Candy and Shelly.

Today’s Rubbernecker Blogger Challenge (RBC14) is to make a card using BLACK AND WHITE WITH JUST A POP OF COLOR.

Please link your card or project back to Jeanne’s challenge post using at least one Rubbernecker (or Stamp Oasis, KK Originals or Jeanne Streiff Collection image) to be entered in a random monthly prize drawing.

For more Rubbernecker Blogger Challenge deets go —> HERE

Check out the Rubbernecker DT’s challenge cards!

• Kittie
• Candy
• Shelly
• Linda
• Leigh
• Tami

Like I mentioned above, my card is all about a fantasy world. I believe!

I’ve used all black and white with celery green being my only color. The castle is colored in with Copic markers in shades of gray, then the dragon and other highlights were colored with green markers. I also added lots of Stardust Stickles to the towers, the water and to the sentiment. I punched 3 holes in the image layer and added the rhinestone stickers inside the holes onto the black layer.

Do you believe??

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Stamps: Castle - Rubbernecker in the Stamp Oasis Fantasy section, Believe - KK Originals sentiments section

Paper: shimmery white, black, certainly celery DSP

Ink: Ranger Distress Black Soot, certainly celery

Accessories: Copic markers (C1, C3, C7, G40, YG03, 0), sponge dauber, Inkssentials white pen, Sakura silver metallic gelly roll pen, Stardust Stickles, 1/4″ circle punch, rhinestone stickers, oval Nestabilities, Cuttlebug

All items in green are from Rubbernecker Stamp Co.

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JACKSONBELLE EMBELLISHMENTS

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This is my card for the Jacksonbelle Embellishments challenge JBE007.

Lindsey got in this beautiful new Chloe Marie paper from Daisy D and sent us all some to play with. Just look at how beautifully textured it appears. I chose to make a simple card with it and just let the paper take center stage.

Isn’t it just scrumptious?? I used a sentiment from the Inkadinkado Chelsea Sentiments collection and a tiny butterfly form the Basic Grey Grow A Garden stamp set. A little wonky stitching in 2 of the corners, a scalloped circle raised on mounting tape for the sentiment and a Making Memories Cheeky Board Clip, and that’s it!

Please be sure to stop by the other Design Team members’ blogs to check out their cards:

• Amber
• Beth
• Dee
• Elizebeth
• Erin
• Kisa
• Lila
• Lindsey
• Lynda
• Maren

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Stamps: Chelsea Sentiments - Inkadinkado, Butterfly from Grow A Garden - Basic Grey

Paper: very vanilla, basic black, blue bayou, Chloe Marie - Daisy D

Ink: Versafine Onyx Black

Accessories: circle & scallop circle Nestabilities, Cuttlebug, MM Cheeky Board Clip, sewing machine

All items in pink are from Jacksonbelle Embellishments

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Thank you all for stopping by today! I hope you have a wonderful week!

Wow! I’m humbled and honored that you guys visit my blog and enjoy my work! Thank you so much for all the wonderful comments! And now, without further ado…..

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The blog candy winner is….

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Jennifer E.

Random.org chose #9:

Here are your random numbers:

9

Timestamp: 2008-06-16 01:44:01 UTC

This is Jennifer’s sweet comment:

Jennifer E. on 14 Jun 2008 at 3:44 pm

Your work is amazing! Why would you ever think people wouldn’t visit your blog? Blogging is so addicting–not only to write, but also to read & inspire, and you have done all of those! Have a great weekend & thanks for the chance to win some candy!

Jennifer, thank you so much for your kind words. Please email me your mailing address and I’ll get your goodies right out to you!!

Thank you all for leaving a comment! Please stop by tomorrow for my Two for You Tuesday!

I’m on my way out the door to visit my Mom for the weekend, but first I’d like to say thank you for your continued support and encouragement with some BLOG CANDY.

It took me a very long time to convince myself to start a blog in the first place. I really didn’t think anyone would visit, but you have proven me wrong and I am so very grateful to you for stopping to comment or just to browse.

Please only leave 1 comment per person. I will close the comments on Sunday night and announce a winner on Monday morning.

Have a wonderful weekend!! And thank you again so much!

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