RRCB102 Black and White

Happy Tuesday, peeps!  The Retro Rubber Challenge is back for the new year!  Here is our first challenge of 2019 for you; are you ready to dust off those older stamps?  Here ya go:

I need several birthday cards this month, so I pulled out a set from 2012 called Storybook Friends, and simply stamped the bunny in black:

I did use some new DSP; this is from the Botanical Butterfly line, which is a SAB freebie! I love these little polka dots! To keep the black and white polka-dotted theme, I added some washi tape, and a birthday sentiment with some faceted gems as an embellishment:

I layered two square Basic Black scalloped squares together to create a mat for my white panel, then mounted it on a another black layer that was diecut with some curved scalloped dies:

My final addition was some dotted ribbon and a few diecut stars!  I was itching to color this little bunny in, but I kept it plain for the challenge!  I hope you'll play with our challenge this year!  Remember, your stamps must be at least a year old, tell us how old they are, then share your creation with us at the Retro Rubber blog!

A little trip to the Adventure Aquarium in Camden, NJ!:

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Storybook Friends, Teeny Tiny Wishes
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Basic Black, Botanical Butterfly DSP
Ink	Memento Black
Accessories	Polka Dot Tulle Ribbon, Faceted Gems, Pick a Pattern Washi Tape, Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Layering Squares Framelits, Rectangle Stitched Framelits, Stitched Hillside Dies (Lawn Fawn) Star Frame Die (Avery Elle)

FMS360 Spooky Cat

Hi everyone!  Happy Friday!  I actually got to sleep in a little bit this morning, what a treat!  I have one last Halloween card for you , then I need to start bulking up on my Christmas and birthday cards!  This one uses the FMS sketch for this week:

This card morphed into something totally different than what I had in mind when I started, LOL!  I wanted to use my cat punch, I haven't used it for a long time and I thought I would make a spooky moon for him to sit in front of, and it just kept going from there:

I used some Halloween papers from last year (Spooky Night) and some Pumpkin Pie glimmer paper.  I punched my cat from Basic Black cardstock and sponged around the edges with white craft ink to give him some dimension against the black DSP:

To make his eyes orange, I stamped them in white craft ink, then dabbed on some orange chalk from my old pastel chalk kit...worked like a charm!  I gave him a little magic wand and added a spooky "boo!" from Basic Gray cardstock that was stamped with a stripey image:

Finally I added a little sentiment from Teeny Tiny Wishes and punched it out with a Word Window punch...going old school here!  I made three of these and they'll be going in the mail today!!  

So, in keeping with the orange and black theme, I promised I would show you what the kids' cookies looked like after baking:

So, I guess maybe black sugar isn't such a good idea....they definitely look burnt, LOL!  They sure had fun making them, though!   Cassidy didn't seem to mind a "charred" ghost:

Mommy was not so enthralled!  You can see Cassidy chowing down, though!  My brother happened to think they tasted okay too!!!

Thanks for popping in today...enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Howl-o-Ween Treat, Spooky Cat, Teeny Tiny Wishes (all retired)
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Basic Gray, Basic Black, Pumpkin Pie Glimmer (ret), Spooky Night DSP (ret)
Ink	Craft White, Basic Black, Smoky Slate
Accessories	Dimensionals, Mini Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Layering Circles Framelits, Boo To You Framelits (ret), Cat Punch, Sponge, Word Window Punch (ret)

FF135 and IM346 Baby Shower Cards

Hi peeps!  I got in some stamping time yesterday; a customer asked me for a baby shower card in mint green and gray.  I scoured my favorite blogs and came up with a couple of sketches, and went to work!  The first one uses the sketch from Fab Friday (and I realize I forgot the bow!!!):

and a set called Little Cuties....I got this last year and never used it!!  I stamped the hobby horse in Memento Black, colored it with markers and blends, and paired it with some Close to My Heart papers:

The only shower stamp I have is from Teeny Tiny Wishes....I stamped it in Basic Gray, diecut and layered it and adhered it to the inside:

 

To give my customer a choice, I made another one; not quite mint green, but I thought these papers from Studio Calico were really cute!  I used the sketch from In(k)spire Me:

I used a couple of retired SU sets:  Nursery Necessities and A to Z:

I just love that elephant's little tail!!  A few layers and some Soft Sky twine were the embellishments, and I used the same sentiment on the inside!

Thanks for popping in today!  Be sure to come back tomorrow for our next Paper Players challenge!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Teeny Tiny Wishes, Little Cuties, Nursery Necessities, A to Z (retired)
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Mint Macaron, Smoky Slate, Basic Gray, Soft Sky, Rustic White (Papertrey), Chelsea Gardens DSP (Close to My Heart), Building Blocks DSP (Studio Calico)
Ink	Smoky Slate, Soft Sky, Basic Gray, Memento Black
Accessories	Soft Sky Baker's Twine (ret)
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Shapes Framelits, Layering Circles Framelits, Petite Scalloped Die and Banner Die (Nestabilities) Banner Punch, Blends (Light and Dark Smoky Slate, Crumb Cake, Soft Sky), Mint Melody and Pretty in Pink Markers (ret), Dimensionals

March Club Projects

Happy Tuesday, everyone!  I am really draggin' today...of course, the gray skies and snow flurries I see out my window might have something to do with that...and the prediction of another nor'easter on its way tomorrow.  That will be #4 for March 2018!!!  And it's the first day of spring!  Anyway, I wanted to share the projects my club participants did this month; I really enjoyed designing them and my stampers seemed to love them too!

Since once of the SAB promotion items is this lovely Springtime Foil DSP, I thought doing an ombre effect with SU's brayers would be fun:

We brayered layers of Blushing Bride, Flirty Flamingo and Calypso Coral on a pane, then added a flower from Flower Shop and punched out with the Pansy Punch, colored with a SU Blend.  The sentiment is from Basket of Wishes, punched with the Tailored Tag punch, and finally, we added a border diecut with the Flourish Thinlet; to make it easier to adhere, it was backed with some Adhesive Sheet, so all we had to do was peel and stick!  And here are a couple of other samples I showed them using the same technique:

For the second set of projects, I went "old school", using the One-Sheet Wonder technique that I learned a long time ago when I first became a demonstrator!  Basically, you stamp a whole sheet of cardstock (in our case, just a half-sheet) randomly to create your own designer paper.  Then we cut it into smaller pieces and made two full-size cards and one note card with our stamped panel:

The set Blooms and Wishes is perfect for this type of project; we used Pool Party, Sweet Sugarplum, So Saffron, Peekaboo Peach, Wisteria Wonder and Soft Sky for a springy palette; the sentiments from the same set (and an additional one from Beautiful Bouquet) were stamped in Basic Gray and all diecut with the Stitched Shapes Framelits:

You can't see it here, but some of the flowers were embellished with a Wink of Stella pen too!  Finally, they learned how to tie a "One-Hole Bow", which is great for keeping your ribbon from slipping off your card.  I did a tutorial for it and you can see it HERE!  And since there is no DSP on these cards, I am entering these in the No Patterned Paper challenge from Cards in Envy!

Ialso made a little gift for my hostess using the Wood Crate Box and the Seasonal Layers Thinlets; my friend Wendy made some really cute Easter-themed ones (you can see them here), but I didn't have any bunnies or chicks or eggs that were current, so I made a spring one with cherry blossoms and a sentiment from Teeny Tiny Wishes:

Phew, are you tired of all the photos?!  Thanks for hanging in there with me!  

About fifty family members and friends from church went bowling on Saturday; it's really tough for wee ones to get that ball down the lane without going in the gutter (I struggle with it too!):

Mommy helped with the ball guide, and a few times we put up the bumpers too:

But that scoring is really the hard part...checking out to see how she did:

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

CASEing the Shower Invite with FF131

Happy Tuesday, peeps!  I have two sweet little cards to share today; they use the sweet little sketch from Fab Friday:

I needed a bridal shower card for my soon-to-be-niece and I loved the invitation that came for it; it had beautiful roses in deep burgundy and pink shades.  (You can see the top of it under my card).  So I pulled out my Altenew Painted Flowers and a few rosy colors of ink and went to work:

Both the background DSP as well as the tag were from CTMH's Chelsea Gardens; I backed the banner in Smoky Slate just to bring it out a little.  I originally stamped three large flowers in dark, medium and light shades of pink, but ended up not using the large pink one and created a smaller pink one.  I stamped some florals directly to the DSP, the added some greenery in Pear Pizzazz and Always Artichoke and finally added a sentiment from Teeny Tiny Wishes.  I happened to have a little scrap of already-dyed green shabby seam binding, so I added that to the top of the banner.  It's hard to see, but there is also silver thread looped under the flowers.

The inside is a combination of two sentiments stamped in Berry Burst and Smoky Slate; the "blessed" is from Technique Tuesday and the "wishing" is from Altenew as well.  I love that layered look!

Since I already had the Altenew pink rose and greenery cut, I went ahead and created another card with the same sketch, using a scrap of Pear Pizzazz DSP and some retired baker's twine, all attached to a Blushing Bride card.  The sentiment and greenery are from a recent Paper Pumpkin kit:

 

A couple more pictures from before the dance: 

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

First Card Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Teeny Tiny Wishes, Painted Flowers (Altenew), You Are (Altenew), So Blessed (Technique Tuesday)
Card stock & Papers	Fresh Fig, Smoky Slate, Thick White, Chelsea Gardens DSP (CTMH)
Ink	Fresh Fig, Rose Red, Berry Burst, Blushing Bride, Powder Pink, Sweet Sugar Plum, Pear Pizzazz, Always Artichoke
Accessories	Hand-dyed Seam Binding, Silver Thread
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Shapes Framelits, Altenew Painted Flowers Dies, Dimensionals

Second Card Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Painted Flowers (Altenew), Paper Pumpkin
Card stock & Papers	Blushing Bride, Thick White, Pear Pizzazz Prints DSP (ret)
Ink	Blushing Bride, Powder Pink, Sweet Sugarplum, Pear Pizzazz, Always Artichoke
Accessories	Crisp Cantaloupe Thick Baker's Twine (ret)
Tools	Big Shot, Altenew Painted Flowers Dies, Dimensionals

FF123 Stampin It Old School

 Hi everyone!  Happy Wednesday!  I had two stamp classes on Monday, one in the morning and another in the evening.  It's a nice way to be able to have all my customers participate, because some work and some are retired!  However, I usually leave all my supplies:  Big Shot, current stamp sets and DSP, etc....at church, so when I come home in between, I have time to play but not always all my favorite supplies!  So this Fab Friday card uses old-school supplies....no dies, no Big Shot, just punches, ink and stamps!  Here's the sketch:

 

This paper is from the Delightful Daisy line; I chose it because I have been keeping these paper flowers in my stash FOREVER!  Does anyone besides me remember these?  SU sold them a long time ago, and look how nice this small one looks with this paper!  I created a little banner (hand-notched), then punched a circle of Daffodil Delight to put in the center of the flower.  Since I needed a sympathy card, I added a sentiment from Teeny Tiny Wishes on Whisper White cardstock, then added a border cut with the Scallop Border punch!!!  To add a little interest, I stamped a couple of lines of dots from a Paper Pumpkin kit from last year:

 

The inside features a sentiment from Better Together and some Paper Pumpkin flowers in Daffodil Delight!   Now it's ready to go in the mail today!

Talk about old-school!!! We have had John's old croquet set sitting in the shed all summer long, it must be about 50 years old; he played with it as a child!  So Cassidy wanted to get it out and learn how to play!  From the construction, our poor yard is just a mess of lumps and clumps, weeds and dirt,  but we persevered! 

 

 

Grampy won (of course)!!!

 

   

Thanks for visiting today--be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Better Together, Teeny Tiny Wishes, Paper Pumpkin (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Daffodil Delight, Delightful Daisy DSP
Ink	Daffodil Delight, Night of Navy
Accessories	Paper Flower (ret)
Tools	1/2" Circle Punch, Scallop Border Punch (ret)

FMS308 and CC79 Rustic Neutrals

Hi all!  I had a nice relaxing evening and had fun creating this neutral-hued card for The Card Concept and the Freshly Made Sketches sketch:

So here we go:

For the "style" that I used here, I guess it could be called Classy Elegant or maybe Shabby Chic!  I started with a Crumb Cake background and pulled out a really old background stamp called Weathered and stamped it with Craft White ink.  I used a Tim Holtz brick embossing folder for the Very Vanilla panel; the wreath is made with some Kraft cardstock; the pumpkins are stamped in various neutral shades, and the leaves were diecut from Soft Sky, Mint Macaron and Lost Lagoon that were sponged with Craft White ink to soften the colors a bit.

I added some sequins, a Champagne Foil horizontal panel, and a sympathy sentiment inside and out:

  

So happy you dropped by today!

Cassidy was proud to show me the plant she is growing in school!

  

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Pick a Pumpkin, Teeny Tiny Wishes, Happy Birthday Gorgeous, Weathered (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Champagne Foil, Smoky Slate, Crumb Cake, Very Vanilla, Sahara Sand, Kraft (ret), Soft Sky, Mint Macaron (ret), Lost Lagoon (ret)
Ink	Soft Suede, Craft White, Sahara Sand
Accessories	Marshmallow Sequins (Pretty Pink Posh)
Tools	Big Shot, Swirly Scribbles, Patterned Pumpkins Framelits, Bouquet Bunch Framelits, Brick Embossing Folder (Tim Holtz), Banner Dies (Nestabilities), Dimensionals