Splashes of Watercolor

AHOY MATEYS!!! It’s Tuesday again! I’ve got 2 cards for you today (surprise, surprise!) and a little bit of business, so let’s get started.

RUBBERNECKER – TREASURE HUNT TUESDAY

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Guess what! It’s time for another Treasure Hunt at Rubbernecker.

If you can find the treasure (and it’s very easy!) and make a purchase, you get the treasure FREE! The treasure must be claimed between 4 am PST and 9 pm PST (that’s 7 am – 12 midnight on the East coast). All the details can be found at the Rubbernecker Home Page.

And while you’re there, you’ll definitely want to check out the specials of the week! All Colorbox Fluid Chalk full size ink pads are on sale for the next 2 weeks and this is the last week for the sale on the new Adirondack Pigment ink pads. This is a really great deal, you guys!

Shelly and Juliana have BLOG CANDY to be won today, so be sure to leave them a comment to qualify. And here are links to the other fabulous designers, so you can skip over to see what they’ve created for you today:

Now here’s my card for this week. It’s a bit different from most Halloween cards!

Dear old Ralph isn’t really dressed for trick or treating but as long as he’s out there and he has a bag, might as well at least try for some candy!

My chocolate chip background was painted with Ranger Distress Crackle Paint in Scattered Straw. I’m a little impatient so I used my heat gun to help dry it. I added my ribbon and used half glue dots to make the ends curve up a little. The main image was colored with Copic markers and the corners were stitched to the card.

I used Rubbernecker’s featured product this week – Colorbox Fluid Chalk ink – for my sentiment. I love the clean, matte impression I get with the chalk ink.

If you see poor old Ralph out by the street around Halloween, why don’t you slow the car down and toss him some candy!

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Stamps: Ralph Raking (78-17) – Rubbernecker Old Characters section, Candy Corn Text (45-11) – Rubbernecker Halloween section

Paper: white, chocolate chip, so saffron, Making Memories Hallowwen 6×6 pad

Ink: Memento Tuxedo black, Colorbox Chalk Ink – Tangerine & Chestnut Roan, Ranger Distress Crackle Paint – Scattered Straw

Accessories: Copic markers (E00, E02, R02, B21, B24, E33, E74, Y21, Y26, Y65, R27, YG91, YG93, YG97), rectangle & circle Nestabilities, ribbon, sewing machine, mounting tape, glue dots

Items available from Rubbernecker Stamp Co.

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JACKSONBELLE EMBELLISHMENTS – JBE016

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This week’s Jacksonbelle Embellishments challenge for the designers was to use some of the Jack’s World designer paper from Cosmo Cricket that Lindsey has in the store. This paper is just perfect for kids, especially little boys. I’m sure I’ll be using a lot of this to make cards for my grandsons.

I had not had a chance to use my Inkadinkado Dogs clear stamp set either, so out it came! What a cute sentiment to use with the sunshiny paper!

Surely this would brighten someone’s day, don’t you think? The little swirly dog is so cute and how about those gorgeous Prima flowers! Can you see the Shimmerz highlights on the dog? IRL, it’s so sparkly! With an addition of brass brads and a piece of white ribbon, this was really a quick and simple card to make. Good thing, too, because I only had a couple of hours tonight to make both of these cards and write this post!

You should really check out the cards the other designers will be posting. These ladies sure can make some beautiful cards!

• Amber Hight
• Beth Thomas
• Dee Jackson
• Elizebeth Neumann
• Erin McKinney
• Kisa Peters
• Lila Holgate
• Lindsey Botkin
• Lynda Benden
• Maren Benedict
• Rachel Baird

And did you notice? We have a new designer! Please help us welcome the very talented Rachel Baird! I’ll thrilled to have her join our little group!

You know you can play along with us too! Just use the keyword JBE016 when you upload your card!

Thanks so much for visiting my blog today! I hope you’ve enjoyed seeing the cards! See you tomorrow when I’ll be posting this week’s Color Throwdown challenge card…

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Stamps: Dogs clear stamp set – Inkadinkado

Paper: vanilla, taken with teal, Jack’s World – Cosmo Cricket

Ink: Adirondack Stream, Shimmerz – Aqua Marine

Accessories: Prima Flowers, We R Memory Keepers hardware, ticket corner punch, clear embossing powder, ribbon, paint brush, glue dots, mounting tape

Items available from Jacksonbelle Embellishments