Splashes of Watercolor

Whaaaat? You’ll see!

Why do I always let Christmas sneak up on me? Sunday I finally went shopping and did a little gift buying, but I still haven’t decorated AT ALL. I’m hoping to get to it this weekend. Of course, I’ll have to force myself to STAY AWAY FROM THE STAMP ROOM!!!

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RUBBERNECKER TREASURE HUNT TUESDAY

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Arrrr ye mateys, it’s Treasure Hunt Tuesday at Rubbernecker. Hop on over to the Rubbernecker Stamps Blog so you don’t miss those Design Team Members who are offering up Rubbernecker Bucks today. You’ll also find your first link in today’s treasure hunt!

Our Design Team, as always, will delight you with their creations. Be sure to visit their blogs~

• Bev Gerard (Tex)
• Candy Williams
• Joan Ervin
• Juliana Swanson
• Kittie Caracciolo
• Linda Duke
• Pam Hooten
• Shelly Kuck
• Sherry Cheever
• Tami Mayberry

Don’t forget about the HUGE winter clearance sale going on at Rubbernecker Stamp Company. All three stamp lines (KK Originals, Rubbernecker and Stamp Oasis) are on sale to make room for new releases!! Woo hoo!! RUN over there to take your pick before your favorites are gone!

AND Rubbernecker is also offering a special pricing-match:   During December, Rubbernecker will match the price of any item found on the Web via a rebate if you can provide a link to the lower price.  All Rubbernecker discounts and rebates will still apply!

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I’ve had this Fruit Wreath (hence the first part of the blog title) colored for quite a while and stupidly forgot to write down which Copic markers I used, so I’ll have to apologize for not having that information for you.

The background on this card is my second favorite part (after the wreath, of course!). With the Baroque Background stamp rubber side up on the table, I inked it in Versamark, then tapped my Distress Fired Brick stamp pad over the stamp surface. I laid my olive card base over the stamp and rubbed my hand over it. After using the heat gun to emboss it, I had a great, variegated colored image.

It’s hard to tell in the photo, but the Merry Christmas is embossed with gold detail EP.

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Stamps: Fruit Wreath (317-11), Baroque Background (1230 SO), Merry Christmas (387-09)

Paper: white, old olive, DCWV dark red textured, shimmery vanilla

Ink: Memento – tuxedo black, Versamark, Distress – fired brick

Accessories: Copic markers, craft knife, corner rounder punch, clear EP, gold detail EP, ribbon, brads, foam mounting tape

Items available at Rubbernecker Stamp Co.

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JACKSONBELLE EMBELLISHMENTS – JBE032

Our Jacksonbelle Embellishments challenge this week was to use punches, die cuts, border punches or Nestabilties on our card. I chose to use my Labels Two Nestabilities dies. I’m afraid I’d been neglecting these and using my Labels One dies so much more! I also used a Fiskars Threading Water punch.

So this is the experimental part of the post. Let me explain! I was playing around with my Distress inks and I wondered if I could sponge the colors I wanted to use for this image in the correct areas of the card stock before stamping or embossing it. This is what I came up with – I rubbed this beautiful Ornamental Cardinal stamp over my cleaning pad and instead of drying it on the other side of the pad or a piece of scratch paper, I stamped it on my white cardstock. It left the faintest of images, but just enough for me to see where to sponge my inks!

After sponging my colors, I stamped the image in Versamark and clear embossed it. Then I sponged over the entire piece of cardstock with Distress walnut stain. After wiping off my embossed image with an old rag, I spritzed the entire piece with a mixture of water and pearl Perfect Pearls in a mini-mister, and dried it with my heat gun. Then I stamped the image again in Distress frayed burlap a little to the left and above the original one to create a shadow.

Be sure to check out all the punched and die cut embellished cards of the design team:

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

I appreciate your stopping by to visit me today. Please come back tomorrow for the Color Throwdown challenge and the Rubbernecker Blog challenge.

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Stamps: Ornamental Cardinal – Inkadinkado, sentiment – Imaginisce Snowy Jo

Paper: Prism Super Smooth White, old olive, naturals white, Basic Grey Figgy Pudding

Ink: Versamark, Distress inks – peeled paint, worn lipstick, scattered straw, walnut stain, frayed burlap

Accessories: ink blending tool, clear embossing powder, Ranger mini-mister, Perfect Pearls – pearl, Labels Two Nestabilities dies, Fiskars threading water punch, 5/8″ grosgrain ribbon, work window punch, Queen & Co. mini brads

Items available at Jacksonbelle Embellishments