RRCB125 Red White and Green

Hello stampers!  It's time for another Retro Rubber Challenge, and this is a great one:

Yum yum!  I love different colors for Christmas, but you just can't beat the traditional red and green, can you?  It's always fresh and pretty together!  For my CAS card today, I created a tag with a Papertrey die from some Wrapped in Plaid DSP and a stamp set from Warmth and Wonder (hostess set, 2013-2014):

I stamped my cardinal and holly image first in Garden Green, and punched it with the Large Oval Punch, then again in Real Red and fussy-cut Mr Cardinal to pop up on top:

I painted in the berries with a white gel pen and re-colored them with a Real Red marker, but I can see I need to go over them to give them a bit more intensity!  Before adhering my tag to a SU Note Card, I added a Real Red tab at the top and some Real Red cotton ribbon.  I also stamped the little tree from the same set in Garden Green and Real Red, just for some added interest.  The inside was stamped with a sentiment from the same set.

The inspiration for this card came from a wee little unused leftover that I adhered to another tag cut with the same die, then adhered to a card front that I was going to make into a buckle card, but ditched at the last minute, LOL!  Since it is also red and green, I thought I'd share it as well; here's the leftover, attached to the tag:

And here it is, on the card:

The hat is from a Close to My Heart stamp called Beary Christmas Cardmaking (2018), the holly is from W+9's Merry and Bright (from a couple of years ago, not sure of the date!).  I embossed the top of the Garden Green card with the Tintype EF and added a stitched diecut border from Be Mine....all the reds are Lovely Lipstick.  I love this fun fold!

I hope you'll play with our traditional red, white and green challenge this week!  Share your creations with us at the Retro Rubber Challenge Blog...can't wait to see them!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

RRCB124 Tic Tac Toe

Hey everyone!  It's time for another Retro Rubber Challenge...this week it's tic-tac-toe time!  Check out the grid:

I chose to use the top row of metallics, mode of transport and patterned paper!  Now, the mode of transport is a bit tongue-in-cheek....but I thought a tricycle would be a fun image on a card for a little boy who never grew up!  So here we go:

My tricycle image, along with the sentiments next to it are from an Artistic Outpost set called Playtime (not sure of the date...maybe 2010?), and it was stamped in Night of Navy on some Authentique denim-look paper:

I also used images from Gorgeous Grunge (2013) to give it a bit more "vintage" look, and the sentiment is from Suite Sentiments (2017); I love how it goes along with the playful theme:

 

I added some metal embellishments as well, and then the inside features the old faithful, Guy Greetings (2015):

The sketch I used is the CAS(E) This Sketch, but I am afraid it's a bit too busy to be considered clean and simple, but here it is anyway:

Thanks for popping in today!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Playtime (Artistic Outpost), Gorgeous Grunge (ret), Suite Sentiments (ret), Guy Greetings (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Naturals White (ret), Genuine DSP (Authentique)
Ink	Night of Navy, Basic Gray, Balmy Blue
Accessories	Metal Brads (ret)
Tools

RRCB123 Anything Goes

Hey friends!  It's Tuesday and time for another Retro Rubber challenge, where we give our older stamps some love!  Today we have an "Anything Goes" challenge...we're leaving it up to your imagination, just make sure your stamps are at least a year old!

I needed a few more boy birthday cards for my church family, so I pulled out Rev up the Fun (2013) and inked it up to make my card today:

These older Basic Grey papers were perfect for my motorcyle image!  I stamped it in Pretty Peacock on Rustic White cardstock and diecut it with a stitched circle die.  I added some retired Candy Dots for fun:

The sentiment was stamped in Cajun Craze, and I added a little scrap of the DSP on the banner, then embellished with a dot too:

I even stamped some tire tracks on the vertical piece!  This card is 5" square, so I will have to check my yard sale stash of envelopes for one big enough!  

I hope you'll play along with our Anything Goes challenge this week!  Just be sure to tell us how old your stamps are!  See you there! And thanks for popping in today!

Cassidy started playing the drums last week!  I am glad they are at her house and not ours, LOL!  But I am happy she's interested in it!  (And just so you know, the item behind her is a doggie toy box, shaped like a bone....had to clarify what exactly that was, LOL!)

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Rev Up The Fun (2013)
Card stock & Papers	Naturals White, Cajun Craze, Wander DSP (Basic Grey)
Ink	Pretty Peacock, Cajun Craze, Crumb Cake
Accessories	Candy Dots (ret), Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Shapes Dies, Stitched Rectangle Dies

RRCB122 Thankful Leaves

Hi peeps!  Another rainy day, but that's okay--yesterday was beautiful, I even got out for a walk between my stamp camps!  It's time for another Retro Rubber challenge, where we get to give some love to our older stamps!  This week we have a sketch:

I found this great patterned paper in my stash, so I stamped some leaves from Vintage Leaves (2015) on watercolor paper and loosely colored them with some coordinating inks, then used the coordinating dies to cut them out:

I used Mango Melody, Terracotta Tile and Pumpkin pie reinkers and an aquapainter, then added a few speckles with Itty Bitty Backgrounds, abd mounted it on a circle of another paper:

I was going to stamp a sentiment to put below the circle, but I diecut another little piece from the words paper and colored around the word "thankful" with a Light Crumb Cake Blend so that it stood out a little...I like this effect:

I will probably stamp a Thanksgiving sentiment inside....I haven't decided yet, though!  I hope you'll play with our sketch this week....just remember that your stamps have to be at least a year old and you must tell us the approximate age!  It's always fun to revisit what's in our stash, right, and give them some love!  (And if you're having trouble remembering how old a stamp is, there is a gallery at Splitcoaststampers for almost every stamp company there is!  The Stampin' Up! one lists all the stamps they ever came out with, alphabetically!  So that could help you a bit!)  Then share it with us at Retro Rubber!  Thanks for popping in today!

Don't anyone tell Wayne that I put this picture out here...but it's almost my favorite one of all!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Vintage Leaves (2015), Itty Bitty Backgrounds (2002)
Card stock & Papers	Watercolor, Very Vanilla, Autumn Day DSP (Photoplay)
Ink	Soft Suede, Mango Melody, Terracotta Tile, Pumpkin Pie, Early Espresso
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Shapes Dies, Bitty Banners Dies (ret), Leaflet Dies (ret), Stitched Banner Dies (Pretty Pink Posh), Aquapainter

RRCB121 Rootin Tootin

Hi peeps!  Happy Tuesday!  Time for another Retro Rubber challenge, and it's a tic-tac-toe, courtesy of Jan!  

I chose to go across the bottom for a monochromatic birthday card, using a set from 2014 called Yee Haw!  Here we go:

I used some papers from Carta Bella called Cowboy Country, so I made my card a little bigger than the standard size so that I could use the full length of this fun bandanna print.   I stamped my sentiments and images on a big stitched Very Vanilla diecut circle:

(I used Poppy Parade ink but I wish I had used Riding Hood Red, it would have matched better!)  I love the sentiments and images in this set and I know since it wasn't available for a very long period, it's a keeper in my collection!  And here's the inside, using a sentiment and stars from the same set as well as another sentiment from Papertrey's Barnyard Sentiments (2015):

I need several masculine birthday cards this month, so this one will be going out in the mail soon!  I hope you'll play with our Tic-Tac-Toe challenge....remember to use stamps at least a year old and let us know how old they are!  Can't wait to see what you create...share it with us at Retro Rubber!  Thanks for stopping in today!

 Cassidy has always been intrigued by Venus Flytraps since she saw one at Longwood Gardens as well as at school.  They were quite expensive at Longwood so I passed on getting one for her.  But recently, I was out with one of my stamping friends and we stopped at her sister's house.  There on her porch were several of them---her nephew grows them!  I told her how Cassidy wanted one, and he put together FIVE of them in a pot with complete directions and even a gallon of distilled water!!  I told Cass she could have them if she promised to let me take her photo with them, LOL!  Her karate teacher just opened a new studio and had an open house, so while we were visiting, I gave them to her:

When they go away for a few days, I get to "babysit" them, LOL!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Yee Haw (ret, 2014), Barnyard Sentiments (Papertrey, 2015)
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Cowboy Country DSP (Carta Bella)
Ink	Poppy Parade
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Lil'Inker Stitched Circles, 1" Circle Punch

RetroRubber 120 Vintage Halloween

Happy Tuesday, everyone!  Well, yesterday was the first day of fall and it certainly didn't feel like it!  The stink bugs were back in full force; they just love the heat and they were covering the screens and trying to fly into the house....I despise them.  Hopefully the cooler weather will be here soon and make them all go AWAY.  Anyway, it's time for another Retro Rubber Challenge---it's an "Anything Goes"!  Yay!  They are a double-edged sword...fun, but what to do, what to do?  In the end, I chose to do a vintage Halloween card!

I am a sucker for vintage Halloween images...I think they remind me of my dad and his era; he and my grandmother would tell us how they dressed up (with my grandmother taking out her false teeth--gross) in old clothes or homemade costumes!  Anyway, I have to rein myself in from buying every sticker, every 12x12 paper, every stamp set that resembles vintage Halloween!  Last year, I did treat myself to a little 6x6 pad from Authentique called Nightfall, and I used a few of their images on my card today:

These little 1 1/2 x 2" pictures are so cute together....I simply trimmed them from the 6x6 piece and layered them on a piece of spooky cobwebby paper and added a sentiment and some sparkly stars:

The sentiment is from Rubbernecker, Halloween #1, and the closest I can find is that it is from around 2009.  I know I've had it for a while!  I stamped it on a scrap of DSP I had in my stash, then diecut it with a Nested Label die and added some black glimmer paper to the back.  For fun, I stamped a witch silhouette on top:

On the inside of my Naturals White card, I stamped another sentiment, added a spooky tree and a trio of bats:

I am pretty sure I got this set from my stamping friend Broni....so glad she shared it with me!  Now...what will you create with your older stamps?!  Remember, they must be at least a year old, and you must tell us the age!  Then share your creation with us at the Retro Rubber blog!  Can't wait to see what you create!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Halloween #1 (Rubbernecker 2009)
Card stock & Papers	Naturals White, Black Glimmer (ret), Nightfall DSP (Authentique), Misc DSP from my stash
Ink	Stazon Black, Smoky Slate
Accessories	Mini Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Nested Stitched Labels Dies, Country Star Punch (ret)

RRCB119 Happy Fall Colors

Hey peeps!  It's Tuesday, and that brings us a new Retro Rubber challenge, and it's a lovely seasonal one:

I used one of my all-time favorite Papertrey sets (it's at least from 2014, but probably before that), called A Wreath for All Seasons.  Honestly, you can't go wrong with this...it's easy to line up, creates a beautiful wreath, and I love it!  So here we go:

I stamped my twig wreath in Soft Suede, then added "berries" of Real Red and Pumpkin Pie, cutting it out with a Stitched Shapes circle die.  The sentiment is from My Creative Time (circa 2013), Just For You, diecut with a My Favorite Things banner die:

I also pulled out an old favorite embossing folder by Cuttlebug that features lots of fall words; I embossed a piece of DSP from my stash, then lightly sponged some Crumb Cake ink on top, just to make the words stand out a bit:

A little twine bow finished it off!  

There are lots of ways you can use these colors, so we hope you'll play along!  Just remember that you must use stamps that are at least a year old and tell us the age, as best you can!  Share your creation with us at Retro Rubber--can't wait to see you there!

From the Fish Fry, Jameson's little brother Sawyer played his own version of Corn Hole:

This little ginger is full of spice!  Thanks for visiting today--enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	A Wreath for All Seasons (Papertrey Ink), Just For You (My Creative Time)
Card stock & Papers	Naturals White (ret), Misc DSP from my stash
Ink	Soft Suede, Pumpkin Pie, Real Red
Accessories	Twine, Dimensionals, Sponge
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Shapes Dies, Autumn Words EF (Cuttlebug), Stitched Sentiment Strips Dies (My Favorite Things)

RRCB116 Tic Tac Toe

Happy Tuesday, everyone!  It's time for another Retro Rubber challenge---a tic-tac-toe one, they're fun!  I chose the top row across for my card today!

 And here we go:

I did a real simple one (again), using some new DSP called Garden Lane and an old stamp set, Time of Year, which was a hostess set from the 2016-2017 catalog.  I heat-embossed it, using my Stamparatus, Versamark ink, Mossy Meadow ink and clear embossing powder.  I apologize for the variance in colors in my photo...the one below is a bit washed out!  I used the same technique for the birthday banner, so it has a nice glossy finish, which you can't really see here, and then fussy cut it out and popped it up on dimensionals:

I mounted it on a Mossy Meadow card, then stamped a white mat with a stamp set from Watercolor Wishes (2015), along with some of the flowers in the Time of Year set, stamped in Soft Sea Foam.

I hope you'll play along with our fun Tic-Tac-Toe challenge this week!  Check out what the other designers created and share yours with us too!  Remember, the stamps have to be at least one year old, and you must tell us the age!  See ya at Retro Rubber!

Speaking of "green", my birds, pushing seed from my feeders, have spawned a huge assortment of sunflowers....most of them are almost 5' tall and still growing, and I counted 16 flowers on one plant!

I can't wait for the to bloom!!  And then, my goldfinches will have a feast as well!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!