Treasure Hunt Tuesday

Copic Markers, Lizzie Anne Designs, Rubbernecker, Spellbinders, Techniques 7 Responses »
May 062008

Good morning! I’ve got a few things for you today, but I will be back a little later. First, it is Treasure Hunt Tuesday at Rubbernecker! A few of you have emailed me this week and said that today will be your first Treasure Hunt! Have fun shopping and then let me know what you got. You can find the first clue and all deets on the Rubbernecker Home Page. Kittie and Broni both are offering up some Rubbernecker Blog Candy today and you will want to pop over to their blogs to check it out.

Second, I just found out last night that Rubbernecker needs some help at the Hartford, Connecticut show. If you are available July 12-13 and would like to work in the Rubbernecker Booth at the Rubber Stamp and Scrapbook Expo, please send me an email or leave a comment on this post.

I haven’t been able to squeeze in a Color Challenge for a few weeks now, so I’m hoping to get to do the SCS Challenge today and will be back to edit my post.

Well, I’m back! Today are Primary Elections here in Indiana, and I wanted to make sure that I got out to vote. Mallory went with me, since this is the very first election she could participate in. It was rather exciting for me to be with my youngest daughter the first time she voted. We went over the ballot in the paper before we left so that she would know how to mark it (not who to vote for, but what she needed to do). I’m definitely a proud mom today!

When we got home, the SCS Color Challenge had been posted, and I was ready to go to work. The colors today, Certainly Celery, Pretty in Pink and Lovely Lilac, at first had me stumped. Then I remembered that I needed to make one more Mother’s Day card, the one that I myself would send to my mother.

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The image was stamped with Black Soot Distress Ink and then colored with Copic Markers. The edges were sponged with Lake Mist. To make the background panel, I chose Certainly Celery, and stamped the same flower image in Distress Embossing Ink. Once that had dried, I stamped a second background of script in Lake Mist over the flowers. For the sentiment, I stamped the script background on white and then stamped the sentiment over the top and cut it out with rectangle Nestabilities. For inside of the card, I picked a white linen paper and stamped the sentiment “God could not everywhere, and therefore he made Mothers.”

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Stamps: Rubbernecker Valentine Collection How Do I love Thee SKU:246-13 and Stamp Oasis Flower Collection Hearty Vase SKU:20 SO GM from Rubbernecker Stamp Company; and Simply Singles Wonderful Mother and Winged Mother from Lizzie Anne Designs

Paper: Neenah Classic Crest Solar White; SU Certainly Celery and Basic Gray

Ink: Ranger Tim Holtz Black Soot Distress Ink and Distress Embossing Ink, Archival Jet Black and Lake Mist

Accessories: Copic Markers, Spellbinders Rectangle Nestabilities, Tsukineko Sponge Dauber, Brads, Ribbon, Mounting Tape

I hope each of you have a wonderful afternoon. I can’t decide if I’m gonna run some errands or go back to the stamp room.

Oh and right as I was finishing up this post, I got email notification from Leslie Miller’s Blog, Running with Scissors. Leslie used the same stamp today and both cards are entirely different! You’ve got to check out her card.

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Today's Challenge - Finally

Challenges, Copic Markers, Humor, Masculine, Rubbernecker, Sewing/Stitching, Techniques 1 Response »
Apr 082008

I have finally finished today’s Color Challenge on Splitcoast. It’s only taken me all day! I colored the image once, had it ready to go and messed it up. I started all over, had a few interruptions, and finally got it finished after dinner.

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I stamped the image, and colored it with Copic Markers. As I was working on the background, it occurred to me that it might be fun to add a sand trap around the green. Uphill green, sand in front — makes for one tough hole. If you under hit – you’re in the sand, over hit – you’re down the other side. I’ve played a few holes like this before. You hit the ball, hope it’s going to hit the green and stick. With any luck, if it rolls anywhere, it stays somewhere just off the fringe. The background paper was sewn to a panel of green cardstock and then layered on blue. The twill tape was sewn to the card front and then the edges were fringed. I added a few dots around the border of the sentiment and both the image and the sentiment are raised on mounting tape.

 

Stamps: Rubbernecker Old Characters Collection 78-04 Ralph Golfing and 74-12 Paradise Text from Rubbernecker Stamp Company

Paper: Georgia Pacific White, Navy Blue, Green, and BasicGrey Aged and Confused Vagabond

Ink: Ranger Adirondack Pitch Black and Archival Jet Black

Accessories: Copic Marker, Sewing Machine, Twill Tape, Brads; Mounting Tape

I hope everyone has had a great day and it was nearly as hectic as my own!

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Posted by Sherry Cheever at 8:30 pm Tagged with: ,

KK Originals and a Treasure Hunt

Challenges, Copic Markers, Rubbernecker, Spellbinders, Techniques 14 Responses »
Apr 012008

Happy Tuesday morning! Today is the day, April 1st, and Rubbernecker Stamp Company releases KK Originals today! KK Originals is a unique and fresh line of stamps by Kathy Kaberline, designed with her own unique twist. Rubbernecker Stamp Company has acquired distribution rights to this diverse line and we are so excited to be working with the images.

It’s also Treasure Hunt Tuesday at Rubbernecker today. You’ll have to follow the clues to find the treasure, and I have the first clue. Your search will begin in the Flower Collection of KK Originals. Treasure Hunt Blog Candy is being offered by Shelly and Candy today. You’ll want to visit their blogs to see more KK samples and to leave a comment for blog candy. If this is your first visit on a Treasure Hunt Tuesday, you can find all the details on the Rubbernecker Home Page.

My card today is made with three different images from KK Originals.

KK Flourish Bday

The bouquet was stamped in Adirondack Pitch Black and then colored with Copic Markers. To make the frame, I cut the image out and embossed it with a square Nestability. To make the white frame around the image, I left the die cut square in the Nestability, using it has a mask, and airbrushed the blue background. The bottom two image panels were also cut and embossed with square Nestabilities. The background panel is a flourish randomly stamped with light blue ink on light blue paper. The sentiment was stamped directly on the background with Archival Jet Black.

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Stamps: KK Originals 66-22 KK Flourish, Flower Collection 03-11 KK Bouquet and Sentiments Collection 40-16 KK Happy Birthday 3 from Rubbernecker Stamp Company

Paper: Neenah Classic Crest Solar White; Crafty Secrets Radiant Heartwarming Vintage Collection; Light Blue; Black

Ink: Ranger Adirondack Pitch Black and Archival Jet Black; Light Blue

Accessories: Copic Markers and Airbrush System; Spellbinders Square Nestabilities; Ribbon; Brads; Mounting Tape

Well, I had to come back and add another card. After running errands this morning and stopping to visit my mother, I decided I needed to do today’s Splitcoast Color Challenge. While I was working on the image, I realized that it would also fit this week’s Try a New Technique Challenge

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This card is actually inspired by the movie Steel Magnolias. One of my favorite movies and one that I frequently quote. One of my favorite quotes from the movie is “You know I love you more than my luggage.” The other day I was flipping through my stamps and ran across this suitcase. Well, I just couldn’t help myself – I immediately thought of the sentiment Love Ya to go with the image.

I stamped the suitcase and started coloring it, when it occurred to me that I could layer all the travel decals. So, I stamped the suitcase out two more times and colored just the decals and cut them out. The layout of the card just came to be. I had no idea what I was doing, but did cut out circles with Nestabilities, and started working from there. At first, I had cut the middle panel to be a diamond, and then didn’t like it when I had it laid out – hence the corner panel. I was going to computer generate the rest of the sentiment – more than my luggage – for the front of the card, but when I finally found the layout, it wouldn’t work. More than my luggage can be the inside sentiment.

Stamps: Rubbernecker Travel Collection 44-04 Suitcase and KK Originals Sentiment Collection Love Ya from Rubbernecker Stamp Company

Paper: Georgia Pacific White, Vanilla, Apricot, Coral, and Moss

Ink: Ranger Adirondack Pitch Black

Accessories: Copic Markers; Spellbinders Nestabilities; Mounting Tape; Brads; Ribbon; Black Gel Pen

Hope ya’ll have a great day today and if it’s sunny where you are, get out and enjoy the sunshine!

Posted by Sherry Cheever at 12:04 am Tagged with:

Treasure Hunt Tuesday

Challenges, Rubbernecker 6 Responses »
Mar 252008

Ahoy ye mateys, it’s TREASURE HUNT TUESDAY @ RUBBERNECKER!

Make sure you visit the following Design Team Members’ Blogs for a chance to win some Blog Candy today! You’ll also find the first clue in the Treasure Hunt on Kittie’s blog.

Kittie Kraft – Kittie Caracciolo

Splashes of Watercolor – Broni Holcombe

Stamp Talk with Tosh – Tosha Leyendekker

Linda’s Works of Heart – Linda Duke

Don’t forget that the Treasure Hunt runs from 4:00 a.m. PST until 9:00 p.m PST (7:00 a.m. EST – 12:00 a.m. EST). If you are new to the Treasure Hunt, you can find all the details and additional information on the Rubbernecker Home Page.

I finally got my SCS Color Challenge Card done today. It actually took me longer to get the pictures than it did to make the card. Why is it that some days the light is just perfect and the next it looks like crap? You don’t move a thing from the day before and still you struggle. Anyhoo, I had this brainstorm (and yes, it did hurt) to use a Cuttlebug folder and mist it with Shimmer Mist for my background. So, I guess this card also fits last week’s Try a New Technique Challenge – negative embossing.

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I knew I wanted to use this image of the dragonfly with the Cuttlebug background. I stamped the image in Basic Gray, then applied a very light Sky Blue color wash over the wings and the background. The body of the dragonfly was then colored with a light gray Copic Marker. As I sat and looked at the wings, I couldn’t help myself but to reach for the Frosted Lace Stickles and paint a thin coat on both wings.

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For the background, I started with a piece of white cardstock and the Stylized Flower Embossing Folder. Just to experiment some, I decided to make my own Shimmer Mist using the Soft Sky reinker. I added 20 drops of reinker to a Mini Mister, a little bit of Perfect Pearls, filled the remainder of the mister with water and gave it a good shake. I then misted the embossing folder with the Shimmer Mist, placed my white card stock in and ran it through the Cuttlebug. It’s very hard to tell in the picture, but the Perfect Pearls gives the paper a beautiful pearl shimmer and has pooled in some of the areas by the embossing. After the background panel dried, I sponged Basic Gray around the edges. I started to add a sentiment to the front of the card, but I just couldn’t bring myself to cover up the background. I settled on gray velvet ribbon and a simple silver ribbon slide. The image panel is raised on mounting tape for some added dimension.

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Stamps: Stamp Oasis Butterflies and Dragonflies Collection 1619-SO Dragonfly Block from Rubbernecker Stamp Company

Paper: Neenah Classic Crest Solar White, SU Basic Gray and Soft Sky

Ink: SU Soft Sky and Basic Gray

Accessories: Cuttlebug and Stylized Flower Embossing Folder; Ranger Mini Mister, Perfect Pearls and Frosted Lace Stickles; Marvy Uchida Square Scallop Punch; Copic Marker; Tsukineko Sponge Dauber; Velvet Ribbon; Silver Ribbon Slide

I hope everyone has a fabulous day and I’m off to get caught up on housework – blech!

Posted by Sherry Cheever at 4:50 am Tagged with:

Treasure Hunts and March Madness!

Challenges, Emboss Resist, Rubbernecker, Techniques 21 Responses »
Mar 182008

Good morning ya’ll! Yesterday I told you that I would be announcing the next two Guest Designers for Rubbernecker. First, Shelly Kuck that Queen of Collage, has agreed to join us as a permanent Design Team Member.

Our two new Guest Designers who have agreed to spend the next couple of months with the Rubbernecker Design Team are Linda Duke and Leslie Miller. I can’t tell you how excited I am to be working with these marvelous designers. I had the opportunity to finally meet Linda while we were at CHA! Not only is she a fabulous designer, but has a great sense of humor. I have been a fan of Leslie’s for a long time, and have always been inspired and awed by her marvelous creations. I can’t wait to work with these ladies over the next couple of months and see what they have in store for us! I am so elated that both of them agreed to work with us.

As well as being Treasure Hunt Tuesday, Rubbernecker is also having a March Madness Sale. There are stamps in both the Rubbernecker and Stamp Oasis collections on sale for $2.95 or less. So while you are hunting for those clues to the Treasure, be sure to check out all the stamps on sale. You will have to make a small purchase to claim the treasure and those sale stamps are too good to pass up! Your treasure must be claimed between 4:00 a.m. PST until 9:00 p.m. PST today (7:00 a.m. EST – 12:00 a.m. EST), and don‘t forget that for every $50 in stamps purchased, you will receive one FREE stamp. You can check out more information on the Rubbernecker Home Page.

Your first clue in the Treasure Hunt can be found at Jeanne’s blog, Inky Paws, today! She also has some Blog Candy today to give away.

Hey wait, I also have Blog Candy today, and so does Shelly. Three opportunities to win today.

Wanna win these Rubbernecker Bucks?

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Well, since we are heading into March Madness, and the NCAA Tourney is getting ready to tip off, leave a comment on this post telling me who your pick is for National Champion. My pick, Indiana University of course! A few months ago I would have been jumping up and down — today, I’ll still pick them, but more out of loyalty than anything else!

The lucky winner will be picked by random sequence and will be announced tomorrow.

I’ll be back a little later with my Color Challenge card!

As promised earlier, here’s my Color Challenge card. When I checked in on the Splitcoast Color Challenge this morning, I have to admit – I almost didn’t do it. The colors, Sage Shadow, Orchid Opulence and Kraft, made me cringe. Not just cringe, shudder and shake. Well, after thinking about it for a few hours, and getting some other chores done, I had a brain storm – and before you say anything, YES, it hurt!

I got stampy with this card, something I don’t do enough of these days, and after the second attempt arrived exactly where I wanted.

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I used a digital multimedia matte paper for the stamped panels. It’s a coated paper, works well to print photos on, however, because it is matte, doesn’t have the high gloss finish. It’s also a cover weight, which means it’s heavier than most photo paper. For the background panel I used the embossing resist technique. Before I stamped any images, I gave the paper some color, using a sea sponge, and sponged on variations of Old Paper Distress Ink and Sage Shadow. Once I had the color I wanted, I stamped the hummingbird randomly in VersaMark and used a heat gun to set it. The next step was to stamp the hummingbird again, but this time embossed with Ranger UTEE. You can see the marbled effect under the embossing.

For the image panel, I stamped the hummingbirds in VersaMark, heat set them, and using the sea sponge added the same colors as before to the panel. Before the ink dried completely, but while it was still wet, I used a sponge dauber and wiped off any excess to highlight the stamped images. I then stamped the flower image twice in Old Paper Distress Ink. For the middle flower image, I colored the image with Orchid Opulence and Sage Shadow Stampin’ Write markers, misted very lightly with water, and then stamped the image. The sentiment was stamped then stamped with Black Soot Distress Ink. For an added neutral color I chose black, to give the card some needed weight.

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Stamps: Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Collection Nature’s Moment and Stamp Oasis Petite Word Sentiment Collection SKU 2000-10 Petite Wind & Sea from Rubbernecker Stamp Company

Paper: Sterling Ultra Digital Matte, Kraft and Basic Black

Ink: Ranger Tim Holtz Old Paper and Black Soot Distress Ink; VersaMark; and SU Sage Shadow

Accessories: SU Stampin’ Write Orchid Opulence and Sage Shadow Markers; Ranger UTEE and Mini Mister; Tsukineko Dauber; Ticket Corner Punch; Brads; Ribbon; Sea Sponge; Mounting Tape

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