Happy Holidays - The Rubber Cafe

Created this super fun card for The Ribb

North Pole - The Rubber Cafe

Today I have this super simple card featured over at The Rubber Cafe's blog.  I tell you simple, I mean it!  It is white, with more white, with white!  It is clean, simple and snowy! Are you ready for that?

This stamp come from this months Creative Cafe Kit of the Month - Christmas Behind the Scenes. This is the add-on stamp.  Head to the blog to see how the other designers are using this favorite stamp.

Tata,

Holly Jolly Christmas

I am over at The Rubber Cafe with my third card as a guest designer.  I love the typical Christmas colors and multiple patterns I chose to put together here.  With a tad of stitching and foam tape for dimension, this card "pops!"  

 The snowflakes needed something, and the ribbon included in the kit was a little too wide for what I had in mind so I made my own twine from the ribbon.  

I carefully sliced up both sides of the red and green ribbon, tied them together into a bow and attached to the center of my snowflakes.

I also used this same technique as an anchor for my ornament banner that I have sweeping across my card.

So, now I am three cards down out of 75!  I need to get busy!  I hope that you have been inspired to mix and match papers, color stamped images and alter ribbons to your specific needs!  

Until next time....

Mary-Ann

Sparkle & Shine over at The Rubber Cafe

Good morning, I am over at The Rubber Cafe today with my second guest post for the month of November.  You know what that means don't you?  I now have two holiday cards completed on my long long list.  How are things coming along for you?  I must say, when I saw the "Let it Snow" background add-on, I knew I wanted to create something elegant with those snowflakes.  What is more elegant than silver and gray?  I searched my Echo Park paper pad included with the kit and picked out complimentary papers that would hopefully translate to what I had in my head.  So here it is....

I started by collecting what I thought would end up on my card.  But like many you, I changed my mind.  I wanted my emphasis to be on the gray not black so I cut out the ribbon and added just a portion of one of the chalk stickers.

After layering my papers and embossing my background, I applied them together using foam behind the dark gray layer to create dimension.  Below, I show you how I perfectly cut the portion of the sticker I wanted.  I used my trimmer to get the straight line.  I am too haphazard with scissors and could NEVER get the straight result I would want.

Once the sticker was cut, I applied it to scrap white cardstock so it would be a bit more stable and I still wasn't sure where I was going to use it.  With dirty fine tip scissors, I trimmed it out.  

I stamped the image I wanted on the same gray snowflake paper I used in my border.  Trimmed out a square.  I backed this block with foam tape.  First, on the card, I placed down the black sticker, laid down some elegant silver thread to get a whimsical feel, and placed down my saying.  Now time for the bling!  I added the small gems to the small square and randomly placed the large snowflakes on my background.

I hope this card has inspired you to get busy with your Twas the Night - December kit.  Now I have 73 more to go, how about you?

Mary-Ann

Supplies:

Stamps: The Rubber Cafe' - Creative Cafe Kit of the Month add-ons- Tangled Tinsel and Let it Snow Background

Paper: The Rubber Cafe' - Creative Cafe Kit of the Month -Twas the Night

Ink: Memento Ink Pad - Tuxedo Black

Adhesive: The Rubber Cafe'- Scrap Happy Glue, Kool Tak Foam

Embellishments: Queen & Co. Rhinestones, Chalk Sticker sheet, and Snowflake gems, included in your kit, Silver Thread, Your so Fine Silver Glitter

Tools/Dies: Fine tip scissors, VersaMark Stamp pad, heating tool

My First guest post over at The Rubber Cafe

Good morning, I am overly delighted to be sharing my first Christmas card with you over at The Rubber Cafe.  It is made with the ah-mazing TRC November Creative Kit of the Month.  I wanted to keep this card clean and white with a splash of that yummy candy cane stripped paper included in the kit.

After layering papers on my 4 1/2 x 6 1/4 card base, I cut down a 3 1/4 x 4 1/2 piece of the white snowflake paper from the 6x6 paper pad included in the kit.  I utilized the cluster of flakes in the lower right corner.  With a brown marker, I colored only the antlers of the silly deer from "Twas the Night" (stamp set included) and added them to the top left corner.  You will see below where I was going with this.  I was hoping that they would resemble the twigs at the end of the pinecones.....

Knowing that I wanted the long ornament stamp from the same set to resemble a pinecone instead of an ornament, I  dug out my colored pencils and began coloring with browns to get my desired look.  Trimmed them out with my fine tip scissors and backed two of them with thin layers of foam tape.  

Here you can see how I clumped them together, added a bow and a jingle bell.

Using the same technique I used with the antlers, I colored only the word Christmas from the phrase "Have a Holly Jolly Christmas."  If you huff on it a little, it warms it up and stamps rather nicely.  I added this to the lower right, overlapping the excising snowflakes from the paper.  The white on white was too matchy, so I took the same brown marker that I had been stamping with and hand drew, a non-perfect border around the edges.  Backed the entire block with foam to create dimension and a little shadow to help the inner block pop off the background.

Now,  I only have 74 more Christmas cards to go!!  I will be joining TRC again on Monday November 11th with another card, which will take me down to 73!  See you all then.

Mary-Ann

Supplies:

Stamps: The Rubber Cafe' - Creative Cafe Kit of the Month -Twas the Night

Paper: The Rubber Cafe' - Creative Cafe Kit of the Month -Twas the Night

Ink and Paint: Memento Ink Pad - Rich Cocoa

Adhesive: The Rubber Cafe'- Scrap Happy Glue, Kool Tak Foam

Embellishments: Ribbon, Jingle bell, Queen & Co. Rhinstone, all included in your kit.

Tools/Dies: Fine tip scissors, colored pencils, blender pen, brown marker