Wordbird's Nest

Playing with Paper

I am fortunate to be a member of The PaperTemptress design team. It allows me to play with a variety of beautiful paper and card stock that I may never have before.

 

This card has a beautiful focal image... but the "supporting actors" are the variety of papers used for color and texture. These papers add greatly to bringing textural interest to our cards! It's what keeps the viewer's interest in you project longer and delights the eye.

Here are the links for the papers I've used here:

Card base: Brown Bag card stock   

Layer one: Mica Metallic Antique Gold   

Fancy die cut layer, focal image and sentiment piece: Neenah Super Smooth Ivory (a great paper for Copic coloring )  

Stop by the PaperTemptress store... treat yourself to something new!

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. 

 

Birthday Bash Celebration!

Birthday Bash Celebration at Red Rubber Designs! 
It's Pam's birthday and she wants to 
celebrate BIG!
 
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Pam says, "My Birthday Bash starts Wednesday, August 22 and goes
through Sunday, August 26 because everyone should celebrate their 
birthday for more than just one day!"

Thanks Pam! For being such a thoughtful and generous person.

Happy Birthday!

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 Products used...most from the Red Rubber Designs store!

Stamp stamp: Happily Grateful    Patterned cardstock: Maggie Patterned card stock collection, solid card stock  inks: Tsukineko Momento

Other: Handmade flowers, leaf punches, Spellbinders dies and Grand Caliber

Red Rubber Designs Just Because Challenge

I'd love to see you join us in the  Red Rubber Designs "Just Because" Flickr Challenge! 

The August 16th challenge will be a "recipe" challenge.
The recipe for your  inspiration piece will be to:

•   Use 1 stamped image as your focal point.
•   Use 1 sentiment
•   Use something sparkly
•   Use ribbon

JB0812 is the tag for Flickr.

Visit the Red Rubber Designs blog for complete details and prize information! 

This is my challenge card:

Just a sweet little lot of Christmas trees reminding us of a few of the best things to to strive for in our lives.

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Products used: Red Rubber Designs Brushed Christmas rubber stamp set,  Bazzill card stock, Sands of Time card stock collection, Tsukineko ink, white embossing powder, ribbon and water color markers.

Ruche

Ruche... just say the word. Draw out that "che" ending, Ruchhhhhe. Sounds so rich, so textured, so majestic. And for paper it is all that!

I have a wonderful package of 11 colors of Ruche. I find myself hoarding it... it's just so pretty, ya know? Well, I decided to use some of it so I can share it's beauty with you...I can always pop into the PaperTemptress store for more!

Here's what I've been working on for "welcome back to school" gifts for the teachers where my DH is the principal.

 

 

These little bundles contain chocolate treats and the paper rose clip has a magnet strip on the back. Cute to pin on the fridge or your filing cabinet at work with a picture that makes you happy. 

I made about 50 of these using assorted card stock weights and textures. Then I tried the Ruche and fell in love. This lovely textured card stock works beautifully for making these roses, gives them such pretty texture.

 

Such a simple project, yet with the right papers makes for a really beautiful little gift.   My sweet doilies are cut from the Solar White Skinny Columns card stock. Very subtle lined texture and beautiful when edges are sponged with ink. Die cut shapes come out so crisp and nice with this card stock as well. 

You can find many great tutorials for paper roses on You Tube, and so many amazing card stock styles to try them out on at the PaperTemptress store!

 

 

Mister Penguin

Oh Mister Penguin, she says, "I've been shopping again!" And just look at that happy, content face...

I'm thinking her little kraft sack has some sweets for the little penguins and the ice-cube bag has a nice fish dinner in it for the Mister. Now that's the kind of shopping that makes every penguin family happy!

For this little penguin and three more, check out the Red Rubber Designs store. There is a lot of wintry fun going on in the featured stamp section of the store.   ;D

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Products used:

stamps: Red Rubber Designs Mister Penguin stamp set and sentiment from the Holiday Wreaths stamp set

paper and card stock: Red Rubber Designs Tuscany Spice paper stack and card stock in white and black. 

ink: Tsukineko Momento Black, Copic Markers

 

Red Rubber Designs "First Thursday Blog Hop"

Well hello there! It's that time of the year....time to make Christmas cards in paper craft blog land! I've seen some really pretty handmade Christmas cards the last few weeks and now it's time for Red Rubber Designs team to show our winter holiday style.

 

 

Hop along with us... you may even win a prize!  

Details:

It looks like one of Santa's elves has been causing a little mischief in the workshops and craft areas of our Design Team members.  Look closely at each project on the hop and you will see that said elf has left a little image of his jolly employer on one of the Design Team member's creation.

Find the picture of Santa then let us know where you found it (whose blog).

Email your name and the name of the blog where you found the picture of Santa to [email protected] .
Every correct answer will be entered into a random draw for the Spotlight Stamp Holiday Wreath.
Contest ends Sunday, August 5 at midnight (CDT).  Good luck.


Red Rubber Designs(There will be a post with contest details) 

Sarah     Paula-Kay     Louise     KC     Kate      Diana  (you are here) 

 

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Products used:

Red Rubber Designs Holiday Wreath stamp set, Brazzil card stock, Tsukineko USA ink, and Amberly Grace hardware.  

Lily ;D

Meet Lily. She's my new digi friend from Softpencil Studios. Lily looks so soft and sweet, so I decided print and color her with Copic markers on Cryogen White card stock.  

In the words of Patricia The PaperTemptress "It's a mix between a smooth paper with some tooth too---has a light iridescent quality, really pretty and easy to use!" 

I'm not the best at coloring with Copics but with this Cryogen White my coloring seems to look better. I especially like the way the skin tone colors blend and take on a dewy look. Makes little Lily here look like she has a fresh "peaches and cream" complexion! LOL

And here she is... the star of this blog post... meet Lily!

 

When I asked her what color she'd like to wear today, she decided on purple. She also adores this polka dot paper from Red Rubber Designs. The brown card base is from the Pop Tones #100 wt. card stock. A good sturdy card stock that comes in lots of yummy colors. The one Lily chose is called Hot Fudge.  ;D

Hope your day is great... just because!  ;D

 

Just For Fun

Just some goofy little bats to share today. They make me grin. 

Halloween stamps from the Red Rubber Designs store sure are fun! Let's see...so far I've posted a sweet Halloween kitty, happy hedgehogs in a pumpkin patch and these goofy purple bats. There are so many more great stamps for Halloween and so many beautiful stamps for fall... all released this month!    

 

 

This card features stamps from the Spooktacular stamp set and the Bone Appetit stamp set. My card stock, patterned paper stack and Tsukineko Arts Momento Black ink are from the Red Rubber Designs store as well.

 

 

You Make Me Happy

And these Halloween hedgies make me happy too!

 

These busy little fellas are from the Being with You stamp set from Red Rubber Designs. I love to fussy cut and layer stamps to make a little scene. This stamp set is perfect for doing just that! My card stock and Pop Rockz patterned card stock as well as many styles of beautiful ribbon and other embellishments can also be found in the Red Rubber Designs store. My Favorite ink for use with Copic markers is Tsukineko USA Momento Black. 

 

Now... here is what I've been teaching myself to do in the last few days when I've had a spare few minutes here and there...

paper roses made with beautiful colors of Bazzill card stock from the RRD store! So much fun to make. You can embellish so many things with these.

For this project I glued a strip of  Pop Rockz patterned card stock to the front of a clothes pin and a strip of magnet to the back. Then I glued the paper roses to the patterned card stock side and now I have the cutest fridge magnets!

Of course I didn't think of this idea myself... there are numerous variations of these clothes pin magnets all over the web. But I love these with roses on them.

Make a sweet little gift, don't you think?  ;D  Thanks for stopping by...