Guest Designer for Retro Rubber Challenge #138

Hello! Welcome to my studio. I have not spent much time here for the last few weeks but I am back now to post as a guest designer for one of my favorite card challenges   Retro Rubber.  This great challenge gives me  an opportunity to use some of my oldie but goodie stamps. 

The theme for the challenge is Anything Goes and you must use stamps older than a year.  For my card I have reached back in time to 2011 to use a stamp set from Flourishes ( no longer around) designed by  Marcella Hawley.  The Zinnia set is one of my favorites and I have used it many times.  I stamped the Zinnias on white card stock with Memento Toffee Crunch ink and colored with Copics using my favorite color combo of pink and green.  I added some highlights and accents with colored pencils and a gold gelly roll metallic pen. I stamped the sentiment from the same set with Memento Tuxedo Black ink. I trimmed the image with a Spellbinder scalloped oval die and placed on a background of patterned paper from DCWV Hello Darlin' stack. I attached this to a Pink card base.  I finished with some Dewdrops that I have had in my stash for many years. 

Please pull out some of your older stamps and join in the fun at Retro Rubber Challenge. You have until July 10 to enter.
Thanks to all the design team at Retro Rubber for inviting me to be a guest designer....it was an honor.

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Have a great day! I love reading your comments.
Theresa

A Box of Zinnias

Hello!  One of the challenges at Creative Confetti this month is All Boxed Up-put your image in a boxed shape/layout for graphic punch.  So what I did was to put an image of Zinnias in a box that I created with Patterned Paper. On white cardstock, I stamped the Zinnias from an older set designed by Marcella Hawley and colored with Copics.  Then I added my box that I designed from patterned paper and stamped the sentiment from the same set.  Finished with a card base of another patterned paper with glitter that coordinated with the box. 

Challenges:

Creative Confetti Challenge: Always boxed up.
Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge: Always about using patterned paper. 

Have a great day! I love reading your comments. Theresa

Smiling with Pansies

Hello!  Could not resist using another Pansy stamp to create this card for the Retro Rubber challenge to use Purple, Yellow, and Green.  Pansies are such happy flowers and make me smile. This 2010 stamp is from Flourishes Calendar Set 1 by Marcella Hawley and has been much used but not lately.  I stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black ink on white CS and colored with Copics (first time to use with these markers). I trimmed with a Spellbinders Oval die and placed on a yellow mat cut with SB scallop oval.  I framed this with Purple CS die cut with SB Regal Frame and attached all to a Yellow card base. Finished with a Power Poppy sentiment in Memento Bamboo Leaves ink.
Challenges:
Retro Rubber Challenge: #115 Color Me-Use Purple, Yellow, and Green. Used pansy stamp 9 years old.
Happy Little Stampers: July Anything Goes with Dies Challenge

Have a great day! I love reading your comments. Theresa

Oregano Wreath

 Welcome to the studio!  Today I am playing with Twofer Card Challenge-we are to create 2 different designs for 2 different occasions using the same stamp, stencils, and/or dies. The theme for this challenge is Garden.  I am using a stamp from Italian Garden set by Marcell Hawley in both of my cards, one a Christmas design and the other an any occasion card. I was inspired by my herb garden.

For the Christmas Card, I stamped the pot of Oregano without the tag with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and colored  with Copics and Memento Marker.  I added pearls (Colored with Red Copic) for ornaments and glossy accents to the pot. ( This reminded me of a holiday gift plant that you might order online. ) Other supplies: Sentiment from Penny Black, Memento Red ink, White CS, DCWV Christmas Basic Pattern Paper, Spellbinder Die.

For the second card,  I used more herb stamps and sentiment from the Italian Garden set.  I stamped the Herbs with Memento Rich Cocoa and colored with Copics and Memento Markers.  My first stamped layout did not work so I fussy cut the images and arranged on a background of Pattern Paper from Graphics 45 Secret Garden pad. (Thought this paper was appropriate for a garden challenge)
Other supplies: GKD Fresh Asparagus and Ivory CS, Versamark Ink, Seafoam White EP, Spellbinder Label Dies

 Challenges:
Twofer Card Challenge: #18 Garden
Power Poppy Creative Confetti Challenge:  Christmas in July
Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge: July Always about using Patterned Paper

Have a great day! I love reading your comments. Theresa