Splashes of Watercolor

Good morning, everyone! I had so much fun creating the cards for today. Fun cards are my favorite!

Before we get to the cards, let’s see to business~

RUBBERNECKER - TREASURE HUNT TUESDAY

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Arrrr ye mateys, it’s Treasure Hunt Tuesday at Rubbernecker. Hop on over to the Rubbernecker Stamps Blog so you don’t miss those Design Team Members who are offering up Rubbernecker Bucks today. You’ll also find your first link in today’s treasure hunt!

Our Design Team, as always, will delight you with their creations. Be sure to visit their blogs.

And guess who has blog candy?? ME!! So if you want a chance to win Blog Candy from me, just leave me a comment and let me know who your favorite Halloween monster is. Mine is Dracula! As I’m sure you can tell from my first card! (I’ll pick the winner by Random Generator on Thursday morning.)

I think the bat in this image is supposed to be named “Fang”, but I thought it was a cute nickname for this little blood-sucker! Vampires seem to be the “in” monster right now, with the popularity of science fiction novels and series starring them! I’ve finished the Twilight series (Stephenie Meyers) and the Southern Vampire series (Charlaine Harris), and will begin the Dark Prince series (Christine Feehan) soon. I just can’t seem to get enough!

Now on to the card.

I’ve used a piece of copper sheeting for the scalloped layer, which was run through the Cuttlebug with the Swiss Dots folder first, then with the scalloped circle Nestabilities die.

I also used a Cuttlebug tiny tags die for the little name tag.

The copper piece at the bottom was punched with a Fiskars threading water punch. I wondered how hard the copper would be to work with, but it was a breeze! Here’s a close up: (you can click to see it larger)

The image layer and the bat and trick-or-treat sack are all popped up with foam mounting tape.

All the coloring was done with Copic markers.

Here are the card details~

Stamps: Drac & Bat (87-10), Fangtastic text (87-02) - Rubbernecker Halloween section
Paper: white, kiwi kiss, black, Making Memories Halloween pad
Ink: Versafine Onyx black, Distress inks - peeled paint, black soot, StazOn - jet black
Accessories: metal sheeting - copper, Nestabilities, Cuttlebug & tiny tag dies & Swiss Dots folder, sponge dabber, Fiskars threading water punch, black ribbon, color spritzer, black marker, foam mounting tape
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Items available from Rubbernecker Stamp Co.

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JACKSONBELLE EMBELLISHMENTS - JBE022

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See, I told you I had some fun images today! I just love these little chickens (or roosters? or hens?). Actually I’m going to call them Gamecocks, since the University of South Carolina’s mascot is the Gamecock and the school colors are Garnet and Black. Both of my sisters graduated from there, so they’ll probably have to duel it out for this card.

I thought it might be a little tedious to color such a small image (i.e. the tiny lines in the tail feathers), but it really was a lot of fun. I had fun creating the chicken scratch (or could it be something else?) too!

I used Copic markers to color in this image as well.

Please play along in today’s Jacksonbelle Embellishments challenge - to use any JBE products! The keyword for this week’s challenge is JBE022.

Here is a list of the other design team members. Please check out their amazing creations today as well.

• Amber Hight
• Beth Thomas
• Dee Jackson
• Kisa Peters
• Lila Holgate
• Lindsey Botkin
• Lynda Benden
• Maren Benedict
• Rachel Baird

And here’s a link to the Jacksonbelle Embellishments BLOG to catch up on all the latest happenings!

Thanks for visiting me again today! Tomorrow I’ll have the Color Throwdown challenge card of the week and the newest Rubbernecker Blog challenge as well.

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Stamps: Cocktails? - Inkadinkado

Paper: white, black, Basic Grey - Scarlett’s Letter

Ink: Versafine onyx black

Accessories: Nestabilities, We R Memory Keepers hardware, May Arts ribbon, red rhinestone stickers

Items available at Jacksonbelle Embellishments.

Just a quick post today. I had wanted to play in Friday’s Limited Supplies Challenge on Splitcoaststampers, but just found the time today. I bought this Peace on Earth stamp set at the Heritage Stamp Show in Greenville, SC, and thought this was the perfect opportunity to use it!

I used a couple of last year’s Daisy D’s 8×8 paper pads for the paper, along with white, kraft and black. And I used my Copics to color the image.

That’s it! Thanks so much for stopping by today!

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Stamps: Peace on Earth - Impression Obsession, Pretty Pattern backgrounder - Cornish Heritage Farms

Paper: white, black, kraft, Daisy D’s 8×8 pads - Winter Fun, Mistletoe Memories

Ink: Versafine onyx black, Distress frayed burlap, SU ruby red

Accessories: black brads, sponge dabber, Copic markers, foam mounting tape

This week’s Rubbernecker blog challenge is to use chipboard or grungeboard. You can get all the details here and also link your card there if you decide you’d like to play along with us!

I chose to use some of my Tim Holtz Idea-ology grungeboard from the mini set. I love this stuff! It’s pliable so even if you paint it or add paper to it, it can still be bent and shaped however you like.

Now tell me what you think of this chick:

I just love her! What personality and attitude! That’s how I would’ve liked to have been in my younger years, but was always too timid to be!

My grungeboard wings were painted with Distress Crackle paint in Peeled Paint, then a rhinestone was added. The Kid was colored with my Copic markers.

Thanks for joining in the fun today. Please come back soon!

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Stamps: The Kid - Rubbernecker Cartoons section, Imagination sentiment - KK Originals sentiments at Rubbernecker

Paper: white, pumpkin, pie, old olive, black, stripe DP

Ink: Versafine Onyx black

Accessories: black & purple gel pens, silver Rose Art pen, Tim Holtz Idea-ology Grunge mini set, Distress Crackle paint - Peeled Paint, rectangle & petite oval Nestabilties, rhinestone stickers, Cuttlebug & Swiss Dots folder, Amuse ribbon, foam mounting tape, Copic markers

Items available at Rubbernecker Stamp Co.

Today it’s time for another Color Throwdown color challenge - #12 to be exact. This week’s colors were chose by Tracy and they’re definitely traditional Christmas colors: Real Red, Old Olive, and Kraft.

However…….I’ve chosen not to use them for a Christmas card, but for a Halloween card. I know, call me crazy! I just thought I’d be different! And I’m really not ready to admit that Christmas is just around the corner! So here’s my little Treat Kitty.

The red layer was run through the Cuttlebug with the Spots & Dots folder. The bag, hat, hat band, buckle, star, and kitty paws are all paper pieced and shaded with Copic markers.

Stop by the design teams’ blogs to see their cards:

• Cathy Indelicato
• Kisa Peters
• LeAnne Pugliese
• Tammy Hershberger
• Tracy Durcan

And we’d love for you to play along. Just link your card directly to today’s Color Throwdown blog post. I’d really like to see what comes to your mind when you decide to play with red, olive and kraft!

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Stamps: Treat Kitty - (SKU 45-09) Rubbernecker Halloween section

Paper: white, kraft real red old olive, Cosmo Cricket Hello Sunshine

Ink: Versafine Onyx Black

Accessories: paper snips, craft knife, Cuttlebug, Spots & Dots folder, black gel pen, 1/2″ circle punch, build-a-brad kit, foam mounting tape, Copic markers

Items available at Rubbernecker Stamp Co.

I have another 2 cards for you today! Are you surprised? I hope you’re enjoying 2 For You Tuesday as much as I am!

RUBBERNECKER - TREASURE HUNT TUESDAY

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Arrrr ye mateys, it’s Treasure Hunt Tuesday at Rubbernecker. As always, you can find the clue on our home page. If you haven’t visited lately, you’ll find that we are now offering your choice of the two images offered up for the treasure. In order to claim your treasure, place your choice of the two images in your cart, and then purchase only one other item.

Our Design Team, as always, will delight you with their creations. Be sure to visit their blogs.

Bev - Savor the Journey (Blog Candy)

Candy - Candys Land

Jules - Stampin with Inky Fingers

Kittie - Kittie Kraft (Blog Candy)

Linda - Linda’s Works of Heart

Shelly - Stamp with Shelly

Tami - A Walk on the Mild Side

Sherry - Walkin’ on the BAD Side!

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It’s official! Yesterday was the first day of fall. (Even though it was 80 degrees outside!) There’s definitely more of a nip in the night air and there most certainly are fewer precious daylight hours. I love this time of year (but I’m also sad that summer is officially over).

To celebrate the fall season, I’ve pulled out this cute Little Lovin’s Pilgrim Boy from Rubbernecker. Isn’t he darling? I believe he could be the John Smith to my little Indian girl’s Pocahontas from last week.

I don’t believe this card requires much in the way of an explanation. There’s a little bit of stitching as you can see, with a couple of brads and a ribbon added. Here are the Copic colors used:

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Stamps: Pilgrim Boy - Little Lovin’s (SKU 396 SO), happy thanksgiving sentiment

Paper: white, chocolate chip, basic gray textured, retired SU DP

Ink: Versafine Onyx black

Accessories: ticket corner punch, rectangle Nestabilities, sewing machine, black brads, basic gray ribbon, foam mounting tape, Copic markers

Items available at Rubbernecker Stamp Co.

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JACKSONBELLE EMBELLISHMENTS - JBE021

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Have you been playing along in the Jacksonbelle Inkadinkado challenge? All you have to do is to create a card following one of the sketches that have been posted on the Jacksonbelle Embellishments blog and using one of the newer Inkadinkado stamps. You can enter as often as you like, just remember to email each of your cards to Lynda at lynda.benden@gmail.com. You can find all the details here.

Here is this week’s sketch:

Ok, I know it’s small here. You can view it larger at the Jacksonbelle Embellishments blog. I love this sketch and I think it’s one I’ll use over and over.

I’m going with a Christmas theme on this one today.

Again, a simple card. I’ve only stamped the little Bird Ornament and the sentiment and there’s no coloring at all on this one. I did more cutting and piercing than anything else!

Please play along in the challenge. There are some fantastic prizes!!!

Go check out the Design Team’s creations here:

• Amber Hight
• Beth Thomas
• Dee Jackson
• Elizebeth Neumann
• Erin McKinney
• Kisa Peters
• Lila Holgate
• Lindsey Botkin
• Lynda Benden
• Maren Benedict
• Rachel Baird

Also, please keep Lindsey and her family in your thoughts and prayers. Her son has been in the hospital with strep pneumonia since last week. He has shown improvement and they were to remove him from the respirator yesterday.

Thanks so much for coming back by today. There’ll be 2 more cards for you tomorrow - the Color Throwdown challenge card and one for the new Rubbernecker blog challenge. So be sure to come back!

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Stamps: Bird Ornament, May the Spirit of Christmas sentiment - Inkadinkado

Paper: white, riding hood red, black, Basic Grey Figgy

Ink: versamark, Distress old paper, Versafine Onyx black

Accessories: black detail EP, silver cord, craft knife, petite oval Nestabilities, sponge dabber, Cuttlebug, & d’vine swirls folder, piercing tool & mat, May Arts ribbon, foam mounting tape

Items available at Jacksonbelle Embellishments.

As promised in an earlier post, here’s my first card using the new Kim Hughes set Mocha Chica and the fabulous Mocha Chica paper line. Scrumptious! I love the fresh colors!

This card is for my daughter’s birthday which is this weekend. I won’t be in town to help her celebrate, so I’ll get this in the mail to her and then we’ll celebrate a little later. Her husband is taking her for a special overnight excursion and my other daughter will be babysitting with little Miles. I believe everyone will have a fine time!

I tried to keep the card simple, but I wanted it to be a little different also. It ended up being an 8 x 4 card because I simply took one of the 8 x 8 Mocha Chica papers and folded it in half for the card base. Perfect!

The birds and branches were stamped in Memento Rich Cocoa on small pieces of the Mocha Chica papers and shaded/highlighted with Copic markers and a white gel pen. All the ovals are mounted on foam tape. I ran my W1 Copic marker around the edges of the ovals to make them stand out a little better against the background. And can you see the tiny pink rhinestone sticker in the center of the ‘a’ in celebrate?

Thanks for stopping by and I hope to see you soon!

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Celebrate Chica card details:

Stamps: Mocha Chica, URA Hoot - Cornish Heritage Farms

Paper: Mocha Chica

Ink: Memento Rich Cocoa

Accessories: Petite oval Nestabilties, Stamp-a-ma-jig, Copic markers: W1, W3, YR65, Inkssentials opaque white gel pen, corner rounder punch, large oval punch, rhinestone sticker, foam mounting tape

Every month over at Splitcoaststampers, Jami issues a specific challenge to the Dirty Girls - past and present. And each month on the 20th, we are to reveal our completed challenge cards.

Our assignment this month, if we chose to accept it, was to make a single layer card. The required element was to use masking (or reverse masking). The restriction was to use no pink. So could I follow these simple instructions? Heck, no! This is actually the second of 4 cards I made trying to come up with one that I liked.

On the first one, I used pink. Duh! So then I attempted this PITA with hours of coloring involved and really didn’t like the end result. So on to cards 3 and 4 - the third one had no masking, the fourth was just too plain.

So I’ve finally decided you could see this card. Please be kind!

There was actually a lot of masking done on this card. I think if I had to recreate it, I would be at a loss. Like I said, it took hours of masking, coloring, stamping, sponging, then more and more coloring.

That’s it for today. Maybe one day I’ll show you the 3 rejects!

Thanks so much for stopping by today. You can see all the Dirty Girls’ challenge cards here: DCNL908

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Stamps: Reindeer, Mesh Background - Rubbernecker Stamp Co.

Paper: shimmery vanilla

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Adirondack Willow & Lettuce

Accessories: copy paper for masking, sponge dabber, eclipse tape, rectangle Nestabilities, Inkssentials white gel pen, glue pen, rhinestones, Copic markers (lot of them)

Items available at Rubbernecker Stamp Co.

It’s Wednesday! And time for another Color Throwdown color challenge! Would you look at this week’s gorgeous color combination? So yummy!

I couldn’t wait to try these colors out. At first I thought a masculine card would be just perfect. And it would, except I just didn’t know which stamp sets to use. The more I browsed, the more I thought maybe elegant would be the way to go. So this is what I came up with:

Baroque background was stamped in Adirondack Espresso onto the old olive layer. The sentiment is also stamped in Espresso. The flower/leaves silhouettes are stamped in Lettuce and Aqua.

I used my Spellbinders oval Nestabilities for the sentiment layers. The overall card size is 5 x 5.

Please stop by the Color Throwdown blog to check out the design team’s creations or just visit their blogs here:

• Cathy Indelicato
• Kisa Peters
• LeAnne Pugliese
• Tammy Hershberger
• Tracy Durcan

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Stamps: Baroque Background, White Flowers, Just Leaves, You Make My Heart Smile - Rubbernecker Stamp Co.

Paper: white, baja breeze, old olive, chocolate chip

Ink: Adirondack - Espresso, Lettuce, Aqua

Accessories: oval Nestabilities, chocolate chip satin ribbon, sewing machine, decorative pearl stickers, foam mounting tape

Items available at Rubbernecker Stamp Co.

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What’s this, you say? A second card on Wednesday???

Well, sure! That’s because there’s a NEW RUBBERNECKER WEEKLY CHALLENGE. Check it out on the Rubbernecker blog.

This week’s challenge is to use Spellbinders Nestabilities! Easy, peasy! I have a bunch of them and use them on practically everything anyway!! Uh, did you notice I used them on the Color Throwdown card as well!? I couldn’t help myself! There’s no easier way to cut a layer for an image or sentiment!

Or how about for the card itself? I used the largest scalloped square Nestabilities die to cut the polka dotted layer and also a white layer for the back of the card. I used Jen d’s method of attaching the back (scoring 1/2″ down from the top on the back, then gluing only that part to the front) so that my entire outer edge remains scalloped.

The image was colored with Copic markers and the cherries were covered with Star Dust stickles. I cut a slit along each side of the cupcake with a craft knife for the ribbon to slip through.

Be sure to check out the Rubbernecker blog for the challenge details, and also to see what the design team is doing, check here:

• Bev Gerard (Tex)
• Candy Williams
• Juliana Swanson
• Kittie Caracciolo
• Linda Duke
• Shelly Kuck
• Sherry Cheever
• Tami Mayberry

That’s it for today! Thanks so much for coming by for a visit! See you next time!

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Stamps: Cupcake Mice - Stamp Oasis Little Lovin’s

Paper: white, textured wild wasabi, DCWV Nana’s Kids

Ink: Memento - Tuxedo Black

Accessories: plain & scalloped square Nestabilities, corner rounder punch, craft knife, wild wasabi ribbon, Star Dust stickles, foam mounting tape, Copic markers - C1, C3, E31, E33, B21, B24, G21, YG67, R11, R22, R24

Items available at Rubbernecker Stamp Co.

Can you believe it? 15 weeks! Thank you all for coming back each week to check out my 2 For You Tuesdays!

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I have some big news this week! Look at this:

Did you know that Rubbernecker Stamp Co. now has a blog? It has such a fresh new look! Sherry’s done a wonderful job designing it. There are galleries of all the designers’ cards, and there are already some tutorials posted too. Here’s the link:

Rubbernecker Stamp Company blog

Check it out as soon as you can! There will be announcements about all the sales, like the current one on almost all the inks - Memento, Clearsnap, StazOn, Brilliance, & Ranger - and the Spellbinders Nestabilities too!

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Now, on to the cards!

RUBBERNECKER - TREASURE HUNT TUESDAY

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Of course if it’s Tuesday it’s time for another TREASURE HUNT!!!

Just head over to the Rubbernecker Blog for all the details and to see who is offering BLOG CANDY for you to win this week!

Just look at this little cutie pie! She’s one of the new Little Lovin’s images in the Stamp Oasis New Halloween section at Rubbernecker.

I stamped her in Versafine Onyx black ink and watercolored her with my Ranger Distress reinkers and a waterbrush.

Both of the ovals were cut using my Spellbinders oval Nestabilities, which are still on sale this week.

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Stamps: Indian Girl - Stamp Oasis New Halloween section, Autumn Greetings

Paper: hot pressed watercolor paper, Sunshine Lollipops wee bundle - Sassafras, pumpkin pie, chocolate chip

Ink: Versafine Onyx black, Ranger Distress inks: tea dye, aged mahogany, dried marigold, scattered straw, spiced marmalade, peeled paint, walnut stain

Accessories: waterbrush, artist’s pen, oval Nestabilities, sponge dabber, Cuttlebug, tiny tags dies, ribbon, piercing tool & mat, foam mounting tape

Items available at Rubbernecker

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JACKSONBELLE EMBELLISHMENTS - JBE020

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It’s time for another Jacksonbelle Embellishment sketch challenge! All the details and this week’s sketch can be found at the Jacksonbelle Embellishment blog.

I decided not to do a lot of coloring this week. Actually, I had already colored this same image, but when I went to attach it to the background I had assembled, I just didn’t like how it looked! So I stamped it again, and only painted a moon (and some moon glow) in the background with my new Beeswax Shimmerz. Now how cool does that look!!?

Please be sure to stop by and see what the other design team members have created too!

• Amber Hight
• Beth Thomas
• Dee Jackson
• Elizebeth Neumann
• Erin McKinney
• Kisa Peters
• Lila Holgate
• Lindsey Botkin
• Lynda Benden
• Maren Benedict
• Rachel Baird

Until tomorrow, chicas! That’s when I’ll have 2 more cards for you! Yes, 2!!!

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Stamps: Haunted House - Inkadinkado, Happy Halloween - Imaginisce

Paper: shimmery vanilla, Cosmo Cricket Fleuriste

Ink: Versafine Onyx black

Accessories: rectangle Nestabilities, black velvet ric rac, eyelets, Cropadile, Shimmerz - Beeswax, paintbrush, foam mounting tape

Items available at Jacksonbelle Embellishments

Just a quick post tonight! I started out planning on creating a card for the Way To Use It challenge on Splitcoaststampers today - WT130 - to use white gel pens. Then I ended up combining it with the Color Challenge CC183 (to use Riding Hood Red, Going Gray and Green Galore) and the Sketch Challenge SC193.

So here’s my Mind Your Mummy card:

Thanks for stopping by!

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Stamps: Mummy & Child , Petite Halloween Sentiment Set - Rubbernecker Halloween section; spider web from Hang In There - Stamp Oasis Halloween section

Paper: Riding Hood Red, white, going gray, Basic Grey, Cosmo Cricket - Hello Sunshine

Ink: Memento - Tuxedo Black, Adirondack - Slate, Riding Hood Red, Green Galore

Accessories: blender pen, sponge dauber, cropadile, white sparkly gel pen, Copic markers to shade: C1, C3, YG11, 0

Items from Rubbernecker Stamp Co.

***There’s a FANTASTIC sale on ink pads and Spellbinders Nestabilities at Rubbernecker this week. You really should check it out!!!