Splashes of Watercolor

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

I’m thrilled that Maren is the featured stamper at Splitcoast today! She’s a fellow Jacksonbelle Embellishments DT member, and I’ve certainly admired her artistry for a while now! Her cards are all so fresh and pretty, so it was tough to choose one to CASE. But I finally decided on this one - Dream. I love the fresh colors, the great layout and just the little glimpse of the botanical images!

I think this card will go to George’s daughter and her husband for their anniversary that’s coming up. Liz will love it!

I had a little trouble getting the holes to line up just right, so there are striped and celery circles everywhere on my work table now! I guess I’ll have to make a couple of polka dotted cards next!

These beautiful images are from the Inkadinkado Garden Delight clear set from Jacksonbelle Embellishments. They’re colored with Stampin’ Up! markers. I used my corner rounder punch to make the scallops on the bottom.

I hope you all had a great weekend. Back to the salt mines tomorrow! (Yuck!)

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Stamps: Garden Delight - Inkadinkado (Jacksonbelle Embellishments)

Paper: white, certainly celery, My Mind’s Eye 12×12 slab

Ink: Stampin’ Up markers: celery, olive, saffron, regal rose, ruby red, pumpkin, rust, bashful blue, amethyst

Accessories: corner rounder punch, 1″ circle punch, 1-1/4″ circle punch, ribbon

This card was made for my grandson’s 8th birthday and also qualifies for the Ways To Use It challenge WT167 to make a masculine card.  Thanks to Lindsey for guest hosting today, and get well soon, Julia!  My card was totally influenced by this card:  Howdy Ride ‘Em Ronnie by Leigh O’Brien, one of my stamping idols!

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Speaking of idols…..Whoot!  Whoot!  for our new American Idol, David Cook!!!  He is just too cool, and his versatility and originality amazes me!  Can’t wait for his first CD to be released!! 

Tonight begins another season of So You Think You Can Dance.  I love that show just as much as American Idol.  Thank goodness I finally broke down and got a DVR, because the premier is partially on opposite my #1 show, Grey’s Anatomy.  And no matter how much I want to see these fantastic (and some not so fantastic) dancers, I would not miss Dr. McDreamy for anyone or anything!

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Back to my card.  With 3 grandsons, I’ll always be in the need of masculine cards.  That’s why I just love these clear western stamp sets from The Cat’s Pajamas!   I grew up with a love of cowboys and all things western (let’s hear it for Roy Rogers and Dale Evans!) and I want my grandsons to as well.

Ronnie and Howdy were stamped in Adirondack Espresso ink on shimmery vanilla cardstock and colored with Copic markers.  The western town scene was stamped on the patterned paper and just shaded with Copics as well.

 The edges of the red strips of paper and the brown circle were distressed using my paper snips.

I hope he likes his card!  Yee haw, y’all!

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Stamps: Having a Pow Wow, It’s a Western Thing - The Cat’s Pajamas

Paper: shimmery vanilla, Basic Grey Blush collection

Ink: Adirondack Espresso

Accessories: Copic markers, circle Nestabilities dies, Cuttlebug, star snaps, silver pen, paper snips for distressing

Copic markers used: E00, E02, D31, E33, E13, E27, E37, BG10, BG15, R24, R29, W3

Yes, today is Tuesday and time for the Rubbernecker Treasure Hunt. I almost never post twice in one day, but what’s a person supposed to do when a challenge and a Treasure Hunt need to be discussed!

So here are the deets:

The treasure will be available for you to find from 4:00 am PST until 9:00 pm PST. You can find the first clue on the Rubbernecker home page.

And be sure to visit these design team members today for a chance to win blog candy:

Candy

Shelly

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Now on to today’s project~~

I really wanted to try the Double Pocket Bag that was yesterday’s Technique Lovers Challenge at SCS. So here is my attempt.

Jenn D really wrote a great tutorial and this is a really neat way to give a small gift such as a gift card or a few handmade cards.

My SWEET image is called “Pondering” and is from the Stamp Oasis section at Rubbernecker Stamp Co. The sentiment is also from Rubbernecker. I stamped the little girl with stazon ink on watercolor paper and painted her. Everything else is self-explanatory.

Don’t forget to hunt for the treasure and hop over to see Candy and Shelly for a chance to win some Rubbernecker Bucks! The other DT members will have some great creations for your viewing pleasure as well!

Thanks for floating by and

please come back soon!

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Stamps: Pondering (#1066SO) and Special Friend (#145-25) - Stamp Oasis section of Rubbernecker Stamp Co.

Paper: watercolor paper, taken with teal, SU Petals & Paisley DSP

Ink: StazOn black, various colors

Accessories: Circle Nestabilities dies, Cuttlebug, horizontal slot punch, ribbon, terrifically tacky tape, waterbrush, mounting tape

It’s time for this month’s Past & Present Dirty Girl challenge. We had to use owls (or another flighted fowl), use texture (however we interpret that), and NOT use crystals, rhinestones, or dew drop type embellishments. Can you imagine how hard that was for the dirty girls? No bling?! Ha!

I chose to use 2 of the owls from my Inkadinkado Bird Assortment stamp set. I just think they have the funniest expressions! And yes, I DO realize that real owls don’t have pink or green & blue wings. But these are my dream owls, so we’re just lucky I didn’t make them entirely pink or green or blue!

My texture comes from the felt I used to make the swirly branches, and from the flower, the beads in the center of the flower, and the ribbon. Think that’s enough texture? And the beads wouldn’t count as the bling mentioned above, right? So I think I stayed within the boundaries!

The beautiful Prima Urban Cosmos “Cosmo” paper already had the swirly branches on it, but I wanted to use this brown felt that I already had. So I laid some vellum over the paper, traced the swirls with a pencil, taped this “pattern” to my felt, and cut out the new branches. I guess some of that seamstress knowledge from years ago came back to help me out on this card! No, I wasn’t a professional - I just sewed all of my daughters clothes and costumes when they were young.

And would you look at how beautifully the scrumptious May Arts ribbon matches the Prima paper! They look like they were made for each other! I was also really pleased that cranberry crisp and river rock were also perfect matches for the paper.

In case you can’t read the sentiment, it says “may your day be filled with flowers” and it’s from the Lizzie Anne Au Naturale stamp set.

To see all the “dirty” creations, click here: DCWH508

Thanks for stopping by! I hope your day is filled with flowers!!!

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Stamps: Bird Assortment - Inkadinkado, sentiment from Au Naturale - Lizzie Anne ~ both sets are from Jacksonbelle Embellishments

Paper: white, river rock, cranberry crisp, Prima Urban Cosmos - Metro and Cosmo

Ink: Palette Hybrid Noir and Burnt Umber

Accessories: Copic markers, brown felt, Prima Urban flower, horizontal slot punch, terrifically tacky tape, Stardust Stickles, May Arts Ribbon, beads, mounting tape

All items highlighted in this color are from Jacksonbelle Embellishments

I saw that AmyR filled in for Roxie yesterday to post the sketch challenge on Splitcoast. She can make the simplest sketches look fabulous! So I decided to try this one for myself. Besides, I needed a birthday card for a coworker!

Remember that I made a birthday card for my son-in-law earlier with the little dog from the CC Designs stamp set, It’s My Birthday? Well, I decided to go with the same theme here. The coworker is a young man also.

The card is pretty straightforward. The zig-zag lines are not actually stitching, but one of the stamps from a Technique Tuesday stamp set. The tiniest present is paper pieced with a scrap of the striped paper, and the faux brads are taken with teal cardstock punched with my 1/4″ circle punch. I also shaded the sentiment a little with a W1 Copic marker.

Thanks for coming by to visit today!

Oh and did you watch the American Idol elimination show last night? I definitely think the best 2 are in the finals - David and David. I vote for David, how about you?!! (Personally, I think David Cook has the most versatile style, but I love them both!)

AND…tonight’s another new episode of Grey’s Anatomy! Yum!

Have a wonderful day!

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Stamps: It’s My Birthday - CC Designs, Hanging By a Thread - Technique Tuesday

Paper: shimmery vanilla, cranberry crisp, taken with teal, My Mind’s Eye 12×12 slab

Inks: Palette Hybrid Burnt Umber

Accessories: Copic markers, 1/4″ circle punch, mounting tape

Copics used: Y21, Y26, YR16, YR68, BG15, BG09, YG03, G94, E09, E37, E31, E33, E13, W1

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After I’d posted the above card for yesterday’s challenge, I found out that today’s Ways to Use it Challenge at SCS is to use inchies. I LOVE INCHIES!!! I first learned about them on Ellen Hutson’s blog and have been fascinated with capturing as much art as possible on a 1″ square! The real experts are Sharon, Debbie, Ellen, Michelle, Trudee and Cindy. Check ‘em out! Ellen even has an entire blog devoted to them: Inchie Inklings.

So this is the mini-card that I made for Ellen’s March Inchie challenge.

Thanks again for stopping by!

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Stamps: Pencil cup - Lockhart Stamps

Paper: white, always artichoke, real red, Basic Grey cupcake 6×6 pad

Inks: Palette Hybrid Noir

Accessories: Copic markers, Prismacolor pencils, 1″ punch, Cuttlebug, Nestabilities rectangle dies

Hi y’all!

Lindsey from Jacksonbelle Embellishments issued her first challenge this week!  It’s a color challenge with a twist - make a thank you card using pink, green and gray.  I didn’t have a lot of time to work on this after I got home from work last night.  I just couldn’t miss American Idol now that we’re down to the final 4.  Although I don’t think there’s much question as to who’s going home tonight!

Anyway, this is what I came up with:

I started by inking my branch stamp with going gray and then just barely touching my basic gray ink pad to the underside of the branch.  So when I stamped it, the branch was already shaded!  I added the leaves in Adirondack lettuce and the flowers in SU pretty in pink.  The nest was stamped in basic gray and the owl was stamped over it in going gray.  I cut these out together and was going to mount them, but they just kind of faded away.   I wanted them to be the focus of the card, so I decided to sponge the area behind them with willow ink, then attached the little guy in his nest on mounting tape.

You’re more than welcome to play along.  You can find all the entries for this challenge on SCS here: JBCC01

Thanks for stopping by today!

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Stamps: Grow-A-Garden (Basic Grey), Chelsea Sentiments (Inkadinkado) - from Jacksonbelle Embellishments

Paper: white, basic gray, going gray, old olive, Basic Grey Sugared 6×6 pad

Ink: going gray, basic gray, pretty in pink, Adirondack - lettuce, willow

Accessories: sponge dauber, Dew Drops, mounting tape

There were so many challenges at Splitcoast that I wanted to try this week and just couldn’t seem to find the time. AND, I’d been admiring everyone’s Mother’s Day cards thinking “They sure are making them early.” THEN I had a light bulb moment - NEXT WEEKEND is Mother’s Day!! OMG!!! That meant I had to get busy!

So after doing some housework and yard work this morning, I sat down in my dining/craft room and pondered. It hurt. Just kidding (not really)!

I finally came up with this triple challenge card.

I started with an 8 1/2″ x 4 1/4″ piece of black cardstock. I folded it in half, then folded the front in half diagonally toward the bottom left of the card and taped that down. I added strips of soft sky DSP to that and stamped one of the flowers from Garden Silhouette in the corner.

Then I added the scalloped layered circles. Again, the soft sky DSP was stamped with another flower from the same set and also with the word Cherish from Warm Words, which is embossed with black EP. I attached a Basic Grey magnetic snap to the back of the scallop circle.

When the front of the card is opened…

you can see that again I stamped the soft sky DSP with yet another flower from Garden Silhouettes. I also used the word lovely from the same set. This piece was attached to a 4″ x 8 1/4″ piece of textured pomegranate, which is folded in half and attached to the inside of the black card. Then I tied my satin pomegranate ribbon around this layer.

When this layer is lifted…

there is another piece of the soft sky DSP - these are all random patterns, not the same. I used my computer to print Mother’s Day in Scriptina font, then stamped the word Happy from the Papertrey Ink set Paper Tray. Finally I stamped the 4th flower from Garden Silhouettes in going gray ink. The other half of the Basic Grey magnetic snap is attached between the soft sky layer and the pomegranate layer.

So, which challenges did this card qualify for?

• TLC166 - Two Way Open card
• CC164 - basic black, purely pomegranate, soft sky
• LSC166 - use only circle punches or dies and any embellishments

AND I’ve finished my Mother’s Day card!!!! Don’t you love it when everything comes together?!

Thanks so much for stopping back by to visit! Enjoy the rest of your weekend.

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Stamps: Garden Silhouettes, Warm Words - Stampin’ Up!; Happy - Paper Tray stamp set - Papertrey Ink

Paper: black, purely pomegranate textured, soft sky DSP

Ink: Versafine Onyx black, Versamark, going gray

Accessories: circle Nestabilities dies, Cuttlebug, Basic Grey magnetic snaps, black EP, heat gun, satin pomegranate ribbon, computer