Wordbird's Nest

Thinking Pink in October

I'm still thinking pink for Breast cancer awareness month and so is Red Rubber designs. Don't forget to go play in the 3rd annual Hope You Can Cling To event at SplitCoastStampers! 

To help celebrate Awareness, Red Rubber Designs  has some special things going on through Oct 31.

• TWO Spotlight Stamps this month, both at 40% OFF their regular price!

• A PINK Big Deal - 40% OFF anything in the store that is PINK or has PINK on it somewhere (including the packaging)! Be sure to scroll through all of the goodies there, as you never know what you'll find at a fabulous price.

• Also, you'll receive a FREE stamp set with every order this month."Awareness", a set of 11 stamps.

I have two sweet little CAS projects to share. Perfect to brighten someone's day and to say I'm thinking of you.

The first is a post-it note holder:

This darling birdie and sentiment is from the Singing Praises stamp set by Red Rubber Designs. 

 

The next little project is a tiny candle. I made a "belly band" to dress it up, so fast and easy but the result is sweet. This scripture is from the same stamp set. 

I just love these little candles. They're only a $1 at most discount stores and they dress up so cute! 

 

Blossom

I always like to have small hand made gifts standing by.

It's just nice to be rewarded with a friends beautiful smile when you hand them a little handmade gift for no particular reason.

The name of the stamp set is Blossom. This lovely victorian lady became known as Miss Blossom to me as I created this little gift set.

Of course, Miss Blossom and I drank peach tea and chatted in our best southern accents. (Not a hard thing since I live in the south and have a genuine southern accent!)

Click on the picture... her dress seems to be in bloom. Beautiful stamp! 

 

 

This stamp is from the Red Rubber Designs store, as are many of the other supplies used here. I used another of my crocheted flowers and assorted shades of pink card stock for this project. Lovely how this shade of Pallette ink matches the card stock. (irl anyway!  ;D ) 

By the way, Red rubber Designs has a great sale right now. 

 

Happy Little Snowmen

 

WARNING: This post contains happy Snowmen dancing everywhere. Viewer discretion advised!  ;D  Watch for flying snowballs and low hanging Christmas tree branches...

 

These fellas are really fun to color. I just stamped a bunch of them and sat, relaxed and enjoyed some coloring time. Do you do that? It's fun to figure out a project to use all of these guys.

By the way... they are from a stamp set called Snowman Blocks. You can find them in the featured stamp section in the Red Rubber Designs Store.

 

By the time I finished coloring I had enough images for a cute card and a Christmas tag set. I'm thinking cute teacher gift or a hostess gift. 

Hmmmm, I have a friend who puts on a fun Christmas brunch during the holiday season  ;D  perfect little gift!

These flakes stamped in the card background are from the Snowflakes rubber stamp set.

I started with a little metal container from The RRD store. It's been in my stash for a few months now. I used tacky tape and glued the ribbon around the tin. Next to my little snow buddy... my favorite thing in embellishing this tag box is the hand made rose! I've been making these thing like crazy lately. I stuck some little punched snow flakes between the petals for fun. I just used my square Spellbinders die to cut the images out. Eyelets to match the metal box and a bit of twine... made for a fun and easy project. 

 

I've been trying to get the hang of making the roses without glue showing everywhere. I've figured out a layering system for the petals that works pretty well and will be sharing in a tutorial early next week at the Red Rubber Designs Blog. So I hope you'll visit there Tuesday.   ;D

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 challenges entered:

Creative Card Crew

Their challenge for this fortnight is ..... Christmas. Yes, it is getting to be that time of year where we need to start getting our Christmas card making going. And their DT has some beautiful samples posted as well!

Shopping Our Stash

This week they want to see you use your favorite crafting items!  You can go with color, product, image, embellishments, themes, anything that you really love to use!  The only "catch" is please mention what it is in your post!  That way they know! 

Love to Create Challenge

This weeks theme is to use your handmade flowers in your project.

Come and Get it Challenge

This week at Come and Get It they would LOVE to see 3D Flowers somewhere on our cards. 

 

Food Challenge

Yes...I am challenged by food lately...I just want to eat it...anything that doesn't eat me first!

But that's not what this post is about! LOL I'm talking about the challenge issued by Linda (The Funkie Junkie) over at Isabella's Sketchbook Challenge site.

All you have to do to participate is use a food image from Isabella's Sketchbook Store. No sketch to follow or other requirements for this week's challenge. You have until 7:00 p.m. CST next Tuesday to enter the challenge.  Once you have finished your project, just link your post HERE using Mr. Linky. Please also provide a link to this challenge in your blog post.

Isabella will be giving a $6 gift certificate for Isabella's Sketchbook Store to the lucky randomly drawn winner.

 

I fell in love with the July 4th cupcakes image. I needed some birthday cards so this worked perfectly for me.

 

Here is my challenge card...

 

I printed the image twice on 100lb Strathmore smooth bristol card. I colored with copics and used Stampendous fuzzy fun flock on the cupcake icing, stars and sprinkles. I wish the flock showed better in the photo...it's so cute in real life! Then I paper pieced and built the card up from there!

 

Fun image, Right?! I think I will go play with it some more!

 

But first I'll share a couple more projects using Isabella's images.   

Here is one of the sweetest ballerina images I've come across...sweet yet slightly mischevious...just like me. (hee-hee)

 

I used the image as is on the left side of the card... the ballerina on the right is the same image just flipped horizontally using photoshop elements. That my friends is just one advantage that digi images have over rubber...you are allowed to manipulate them digitally to fit your project better! I colored with copics and used my Sakura gel pen for sparkle.

 

Here is the inside...

The sentiment is one I've liked for a long while...I just typed it and printed.

 

With an eight year old daughter, I know I will use this  Elizabeth Ballerinadigi stamp time and time again. There are 5 more ballerina digi stamps by Isabella on my wish list as well!!

 

Ok...I told you I have had a fun week playing with Isabella's images!

So here is one more little grouping of goodies...

 

 

I used Isabella's Lily image to make a card, junior note pad cover, skinny note pad cover and a sweet little post-it note cover. These images were printed on Canson acrylic 110lb paper. I love the texture and shine that it gives my digi hybrid projects.

These images were colored using photoshop elements...yep, I cheated...just another example of something you can't do with rubber stamps! ;D

 

Below are some individual images...

 

skinny notepad and cover...

 

 

and one more...post-it note cover.

 

All card stock is Gina K pure luxury and the "notes" oval is from a fab rubber stamp set by Gina K Designs.The dp is by DCWV.

 

Thanks for looking at the longest post of all time...Just joking! See you soon!