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)

TSOT279 Coffee Card

Happy Wednesday, peeps!  The week is almost halfway over!  I liked this week's sketch at Try Stampin' on Tuesday, so I thought I'd give it a shot.  First, let me say that I LOVE coffee...I think one of man's greatest inventions is the coffee maker that has a timer so that when I get up in the morning the COFFEE IS ALREADY MADE!!!  BUT....I have not jumped on the coffee-cardmaking-blog bandwagon, for some reason.  I was pretty sure I didn't even have any coffee-themed stamps!  Not sure why....I guess I just like to drink it, not stamp about it.  But I saw this really cute Hero Arts set(CL758) and it comes with the frame and a lot of little words to fit inside.  And coffee was one of them!  So....I made a coffee card!

I have had this DSP for such a long time, I don't even know who makes it, but the bottom panel is the flip side of the big polka dot panel.  I embossed it with a Tim Holtz EF....and get this.  I didn't even realize this was a coffee cup embossing folder.  I bought it because I thought it looked like sand pails and I thought it was cute!  So I DID have something coffee-related and I didn't even know it!  Anyway, I sponged it to make it look a little vintage, and I stamped the frame in Early Espresso (hah) on Soft Sky, trimmed around it, then overstamped it with the Linen background stamp and some coffee stain images from Timeless Textures:

Then I remembered!!!  I DID have coffee stamps! I had a really, really old set from Rubbernecker called Coffee & Tea Inchies, so I stamped a couple of them on some brown polka-dotted paper and added an "enjoy" to finish it off.

So now that I have a coffee card, I am not sure to whom to send this!  And for what reason?  I guess that's why I never made a coffee card before.  Perhaps I could get a Starbucks gift card for someone and stick it inside, right?!  Glad you stopped by to hear my little coffee ramble today!  

Grampy surprised Cassidy by jumping in the kiddie pool with her yesterday afternoon after he came home from work!

And of course, Grampy is so easily tormentable!

Have a blessed day!

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Happy Wednesday, peeps!  I am squeaking in one more Halloween card this week, using an interesting challenge from As You See It:

Hmmmm….not sure if I have ever used a triangle on a card…..well, I guess I have but not one quite like this:

I am still on the fence (or maybe I should say “I’m on the broom”) about this card!!  I just got this cute little vintage cat stamp, and I just am not sure if he’s really that impressive in white ink on black cardstock!  But I wanted to get this in the mail, so onward I went, adding some panels from MME’s Frightful DSP line; a sentiment from Rubbernecker (retired); some glimmer paper and silver ribbon, and some black and orange sequins!  Maybe next year I can use this little guy again in a different color, LOL!!!  Thanks for visiting today!

Bubble wrap makes for great entertainment!

Wee Project Details
Stamps	Halloween (Rubbernecker ret.), Broomstick Kitty (Victorian Greetings)
Card stock & Papers	Naturals Ivory, Basic Black, Silver Glimmer, Frightful DSP (My Mind's Eye)
Ink	Memento Black, Craft White
Accessories	Sequins, Silver Ribbon
Tools	Star Punch, 1 3/4" Circle Punch, Nestie Scallop Circle, Big Shot

Kraft Journal MIM194

Happy Wednesday, everyone!  Yay, the middle of the week…downhill from here!  The Kraft Journal has a fun color challenge this week: 

and that vintage image inspired me to print out a vintage Halloween postcard and use it to adorn a box I created with the Gift Box Punch Board:

I used some of SU’s new Under the Tree Specialty DSP, which is heavier than regular DSP and makes great boxes!  Here are the front and back views:

and the top is a rosette, not attached, so the box can be opened, but adorned with some glittery bats and tied up with black organdy ribbon:

I had a ton of fun making this too….I really wanted to add some more Halloweeny images, but I kept it pretty simple!  And I am sorry, I don’t know from where this postcard came, it was just one of the plethora I have saved on my computer!!!  And Try Stampin' On Tuesday has a "Spooks & Other Scary Things" non-card challenge, so I am entering my treat box in that as well!   Take care, and have a great day!  I didn't do a recipe for this project, so if you have any questions, send me an email!!!

Cassidy getting into making cupcakes….again!  This girl loves to bake (and eat) cupcakes!

I keep a little piece of non-skid rubber under the bowl so it doesn’t slide out from under the mixer!!!

Yum…enjoy your day!

MIM 140

Happy Wednesday, everyone!  Just a little Halloween card today, based on the sketch from The Kraft Journal this week. Here’s the sketch:

I hadn’t done anything vintagey for a while, so I pulled out a couple of stamp sets and went to work!

I colored my image with SU markers; the mat and stars are pieces of black cardstock covered with SU’s Adhesive Sheets and sprinkled with the black glitter from the Holiday mini!  Love it! The owl's eyes are also sparkly, which you can see in the photo.   I also added some glitter to the stars on the stamped image:

The striped panel was brayered with Crumb Cake ink so as not to be so bright and to keep with the krafty look of my card!

And here’s the inside:

Our leaves haven’t quite begun to turn colors, but they are falling and Cassidy was quite excited to see them on the ground!



Last year, she had to ring the wind chimes with a stick….this year she can reach up and touch them!

Have a super day!

Wee Project Details
Stamps	Halloween Set 1 (Rubbernecker); Vintage Halloween (Graphic 45)
Card stock & Papers	Crumb Cake, Basic Black, Naturals Ivory, Adhesive Sheets,  Mischievous (MME)
Ink	Stazon Black, Crumb Cake
Accessories	Black Glitter
Tools	Tangerine Tango, Crumb Cake, Smoky Slate and Sahara Sand Markers, Merry Minis Punch Pack, 1 1/4" Circle Punch, Itty Bitty Banners Dies, Big Shot, Circle Nesties, Sponges, Dimensionals

ColourQ158

Woohoo!  Happy Tuesday, happy stampers!  ColourQ challenge today, and check out this trendy inspiration Arielle has for us today:

Sort of reminds me of something from Harry Potter, right?  I have SO MANY Halloween stamps, it took me a while to figure out what to use, so I used several:

(I wish this photo didn’t look so washed out….the colors are really more intense IRL!)  I heat embossed the witch’s hat from a retired SU set with Versamark and Detail Black embossing powder, then colored in the unembossed portions with markers.  A little glitter is always a fine accessory for the well-dressed witch, don’t you think?

My sketch is a fun one from Fab Friday:

And although it’s difficult to see, I embossed a few images on the card front as well:

And I had almost as much fun stamping the inside as the outside:

I used a circle punch to cut a mask, then sponged More Mustard and Tangerine Tango to make a spooky moon!  FUN!  Please email me if you have any questions about anything I used today!

Enjoy your day!

Freshly Made Sketches Anniversary

Lesley’s Freshly Made Sketches blog is celebrating their one-year anniversary!  Congrats!  In honor of that, we can pick any sketch we like to celebrate!  I chose sketch #20:

I was lamenting to my friend Linda that I have SO many Halloween stamps I can’t possibly use them all, but I am trying!  Here’s my latest vintage Halloween card:

I just love this silhouette image!  I combined it with another stamp set for the embellishment and sentiment.  And did you know you can color silver glimmer paper with your Copics to make colored glimmer paper?  I used the broad edge of the marker and just dabbed it on the edge of my circle:

The paper is really rough, so I wouldn’t recommend doing a large surface area, but just the edges is small enough not to do any damage to the marker.  This was E08, which matches the Tangerine Tango pretty well!  If you have any questions about anything I used here, shoot me an email!

I always said that it was worthless to buy toys, because Cassidy plays with everything in the house!  This time it’s stacking my coasters:

Enjoy your day!