SS16 Sisterhood Sunday!

Welcome to another Sisterhood Sunday!











 We have a terrific sketch challenge for you today!

I chose to use this adorable elephant image from the Animals collection for my creation today.  My friend, Charlene Driggs, recently sent me some cool designer papers, and I knew immediately that I wanted to use this pretty pink, black, and cream striped and polka dotted dp (I paper pieced the elephant's body with the polka dotted dp.)  I colored his head with Copic markers.  I actually stamped the image twice, cuttingt it out, and popping it up for dimension.

Now, if you'd like to play along with us, you can get all the details on our Stampin' Sisterhood blog.  We'll be choosing one winner who will be dubbed our SUNDAY SISTER and will also receive a Rubbernecker stamp set of her choice!  You can check out the images on the Rubbernecker blog.

Have a terrific day!

.Supplies I used:
Stamps:  Animals by Rubbernecker
Paper:  Pretty in Pink, Very Vanilla, Black, Making Memories Sabrina designer paper
Ink:  Tuxedo Memento Black
Accessories:  pink buttons, word window punch, circle and lacy circle Nestabilities, dimensionals

 

Stampin' Sisterhood Mother's Day Blog Hop

Welcome to the Stampin' Sisterhood Mother's Day Blog hop!  Yes, Mother's Day will be here before we know it, so we wanted to share some of our favorite Rubbernecker images we love to use for our Mother's Day cards.  My mother loves butterflies, so I used the Butterflies stamp set.

 

I used Vintage Violet ink to stamp the sentiment and the butterfly images.  I colored the yellow part of the butterfly with Stampin' Up markers and water colored the violet with Vintage Violet reinker.  I added silver glitter glue to part of the butterfly and then Glossy Accent to the rest of it.  Here's a closer view of the butterfly:

Now, here's your hop route!  Be sure to leave some love with your comment at each stop and then finish up with the Stampin' Sisterhood blog to let us know you have hopped!  You will be entered for your chance to win a free Rubbernecker stamp set!  AND, as an added BONUS,  we will draw an EXTRA winner  for a STAMP SET of your choice, just for sharing our HOP on your Facebook page or Blog!! -After you have shared, just go back to the Stampin' Sisterhood Blog and let us know where you have shared our hop!!  The winner will be announced on our blog on March 30th!

• Charlene Driggs
• Charlene Merrick (you're here!)
• Ellen Taylor
  
• Jacquie Peifer
• Jen Charboneau
• Jennifer Cuthbertson
• Joan Ervin
• Judy Rozema
• Julia Aston
• Juliana Swanson
• Karen Hunsaker
• Kecia Waters
• Kittie Caracciolo
• Stampin' Sisterhood
  

Supplies I used:

Stamps: Butterflies

Paper: White, Vintage Violet, designer

Ink: Vintage Violet

Accessories: Stampin’ Up markers and reinkers, watercolor brush, silver stickles, Glossy Accents, petite oval and scalloped oval Nestabilities, Fleur de lis Motif, Vintage Violet ribbon

Sisterhood Sunday

Did you have the opportunity to check out our Stampin Sisterhood blog hop yesterday?  If not, you can scroll down to my post from yesterday to get the details.  You won't want to miss out on the chance to win a free stamp set!

Today brings us to another Sisterhood Sunday, #SS12.

We were given this sketch design

I was inspired to make yet another Easter card using another cute Rubbernecker bunny image.  This one is called Carrot Bunny, and I colored him with Copic markers.  That's liquid applique on his bunny tail.

My card measures 5 1/4" square.  I had to pull out my Coluzzle circle cutter to get a circle large enough to fit the sketch design.  My colors are Brilliant Blue, Bashful Blue, and Certainly Celery.

My stampin' sisters Ellen, Judy and Julia also made some terrific cards.  You can see them on the Stampin Sisterhood blog.

Rubbernecker Spring Blog Hop!

Hey there Sister Friends!!  I'm so glad you could join the Stampin' Sisterhood for our Springtime HOP!! As always, we are SO excited to share with you! Rubbernecker Stamps has a wide variety of stamps for your Spring and Easter projects!

The Stampin’ Sisterhood has put together some awesome creations to share some of these images with you! I have a HOP ROUTE for you to follow (at the end of my post) and you can find it at each stop along the way, so you will not get lost!  OK, in true HOP fashion, you will want to leave a little LOVE everywhere you visit! We want you to have a chance to win a PRIZE!

***You could WIN……………….

an AWESOME stamp set

Of your CHOICE!

***The winner will be announced on the Stampin' Sisterhood Blog on FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 2012, So you all have time to HOP!!

Pretty cool, huh? Well then, off you go, there is a lot to see!!  I also hope you will join us in March, for our NEXT HOP!! We cannot wait to do some more sharing and prize giving!! Until then, be sure to check out the daily posts on the Stampin Sisterhood blog!! There is a lot of inspiration to be found! Thanks, again, for joining us today and enjoy!!

Here's my Spring "hop" creation.  My bunnies are hoppin' along the route, too.

I used this adorable Bunnies for Sale image from Rubbernecker's Easter collection.  I colored the image with Copic markers.  Since this is a Spring hop, I also wanted to use Spring colors.  I always think of brightly colored gingham patterned paper as being Spring like, too.  The Prima flowers are ones I've had for a loooong time.  I'm really trying to be good about using up existing supplies before I purchase anything else.

Here are the supplies I used:

Stamps:  Bunnies for Sale Easter

Paper:  White, Regal Rose, Green gingham dp

Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Regal Rose, Pink Pirouette

Accessories:  Copic markers, border punch, circle Nestabilities, pink gingham ribbon, paper piercer, Prima flowers, Green Galore brad

Now, here's your blog hop route!

• Bev Gerard
• Charlene Driggs
• Charlene Merrick (you're here)
• Ellen Taylor
  
• Jacquie Peifer
• Jen Charboneau
• Jennifer Cuthbertson
• Joan Ervin
• Julia Aston
• Juliana Swanson
• Karen Hunsaker
• Kecia Waters
• Kittie Caracciolo
• Stampin' Sisterhood
  

I'll be back tomorrow with a Stampin Sisterhood Sunday design to share with you.  As always, I appreciate your visit and your comments!  Have a fabulous day, friends!

Sisterhood Sunday

It's Sisterhood Sunday, and this week we have an inspiration photo!

I used my Classic Heart Nestabilities to die cut my candy hearts out of Barely Banana, Apricot Appeal, Pretty in Pink, Almost Amethyst, Whisper White, and Mint Melody.  I did three of each color and glued them together for dimension.  Instead of stamping words on my hearts, I stamped bees and butterflies from Rubbernecker's Create a Garden set.  The word "Love" is from the Fall Trilogy set.  I used the largest of the Scalloped and Classic Heart Nestabilities for my heart-shaped card.

You can have a chance to win one of Rubbernecker's terrific stamps, if you play along in our challenge.  Create a card around this inspiration photo, using your Rubbernecker images,  and link it to our Stampin' Sisterhood blog for a chance to be randomly drawn as the winner!  You can get all the challenge details on the blog, as well as view the creations of my Stampin Sisters Julia, Judy, and Ellen.  I hope you'll play along with us!



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Wednesday's Worktable Sneek Peek

Please visit the Stampin' Sisterhood blog for a full viewing of my project and have a wonderful day!

Sisterhood Sunday with Rubbernecker Stamps

It's time for another Sisterhood Sunday challenge and a chance for you to win one of Rubbernecker's terrific stamps!  All of you have to do to play along in our challenge this week is to create a card using your Rubbernecker images and link it to our Stampin' Sisterhood blog for a chance to be randomly drawn as the winner!  You can get all the details and see the other designs of my Stampin' Sisters Julia, Jen, Judy, and Kittie there, too!

For our Sisterhood Sunday challenge this week, we were given this beautiful inspiration photo:

Awwww, aren't all those lovely shades of purple so pretty?  I chose to use one of my Wildflower, as well as one of my Weeds, images by Rubbernecker.  I stamped the Wildflower twice with Versamark and heat embossed the one on the left with Lilac Pastel embossing powder and the one on the right with PEARLustre Amethyst (I know it looks black in my photo, but it truly is a deep, rich purple).  The weed image in the center was heat embossed with Peeled Paint Distress embossing powder. 

I used a small rectangle Nestability to section off the images, sponging the outer edges with Dusty Concord Distress ink.  The sentiment is from Rubbernecker's Friends stamp set, which I cut out with a Fancy Tag die and also sponged with the Dusty Concord ink.  I threaded the pretty gingham ribbon through holes at the end of the tag.

Here are all the supplies used:
Stamps:  Wildflower (SKU #496-08) and Weed (SKU #497-15) and Beautiful Wishes sentiment (SKU #565-12)
Paper:  Pale Plum, White, Black, dotted purple dp
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black; Ranger Dusty Concord
Accessories:  Rectangle and Fancy Tag Nestabilities, purple gingham ribbon, sponge dauber, Versamark, Lilac Pastel, PEARLustre Amethyst, and Peeled Paint Distress embossing powders, dimensionals

Can't wait to see what you create!!

Wednesday's Worktable Sneak Peek!

Swing by the Rubbernecker Stampin' Sisterhood blog for the full view!  Thanks!

Kittie Kits Blog Hop

Hello Sister Friends!! How are you? Thank you for joining in on the KITTIE KIT HOP fun!! We are SO excited to share with you! In case you didn’t know, Rubbernecker Stamps has a line of stamps called KITTIE KITS and they include a variety of images; these images can be used together in MANY different ways to create MANY different things!! Just wait, you will see what I mean! The Stampin’ Sisterhood has come together to share some of the ways that THEY use them! There is a HOP ROUTE for you to follow below! You will find it along with MY creation! AND? So you won’t get lost, EACH Sister will have this list for you, to help you on your journey!! Make sure to leave some LOVE at every stop, for you will want to be eligible for our PRIZE!! What fun would it be without a PRIZE!!

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For my creation, I used the wonderfully detailed trees from the Kittie Kits The Moose is Loose stamp set.  I used a painting technique I saw my friend and Stampin' Sister, Judy Rozema, do as a tutorial over in the Teacher's Lounge at Stamp School.  I, of course, had to mask my ground and sky to use the different colors of ink.  I used Ranger Weathered Wood and Adirondack Cloudy Blue for the sky; I used Ranger Crushed Olive and Forest Moss for the ground; I used Adirondack Butterscotch for the yellow hue between the sky and ground. I hand drew the mountains in the background and watercolored them with Stampin' Up's Basic Gray ink and added white acrylic paint for the snowy sections in the mountains.  I love the various size trees in this stamp set.  I stamped all of them using Ranger's Forest Moss Distress Ink. 

I love how this turned out and want the focus to be solely on the artwork so I did not add any embellishments.

Now, remember the following:

***You could WIN……………….

Your choice of one AWESOME ……

KITTIE KIT stamp set

***The winner will be announced

FRIDAY 1/27

How cool is that? OK, better get HOPPIN’, there is LOTS to see!! Be on the look out for our NEXT HOP coming IN FEBRUARY!! We look forward to bringing you MORE sharing and prizes!! Until then, be sure to check out the daily posts on the STAMPIN’ SISTERHOOD blog!! There is LOTS of inspiration to be found! Thanks again for joining us today and ENJOY!!

Here's your blog hop route:

• Bev Gerard
• Charlene Driggs
• Charlene Merrick (that's me!)
• Jacquie Peifer
• Jen Charboneau
• Jennifer Cuthbertson
• Joan Ervin
• Judy Rozema
• Julia Aston
• Juliana Swanson
• Karen Hunsaker
• Kecia Waters
• Rubbernecker Stampin Sisterhood

Dirty + Sister = Dirty Sister!

CAN....YOU.....HEAR.....ME......SCREEEEEEEAMING!!! I can officially tell you now that I've joined the dirt pile with all of the other dirty girls on Splitcoaststampers (SCS)!!! Whew! What a relief to finally let that secret out!!  I'm good at keeping secrets, but this one was a real toughie for me.

I am so honored and thrilled to have been asked by Lydia, the SCS Community Manager, this join this team of talented stampers whom I've personally admired for so long.  It almost feels surreal for me to be typing this, but the proof is in the puddin', as they say.  If you are a Fan Club member on Splitcoaststampers , you'll be able to view the entire Dirty Dozen gallery.  I'd also like to congratulate my fellow dirty sister, Jessica Diedrich, on jumping into the dirt pile with me!!!
WAIT, don't leave just yet....because it's also SISTERHOOD SUNDAY for Rubbernecker Stamps!!

  and we have a different sketch challenge for you to try!

Here's my design using this sketch:

With all the cold and snow here in Michigan, I needed to use some pretty Spring colors.  I stamped the flowers with versamark, clear embossed them, and then sponged the various colors.  I used my markers to add a deeper color to the flowers and stems/leaves.

Supplies I used:
Stamps:  Wildflower Set (SKU #465) by Rubbernecker
Paper:  Tempting Turquoise, Whisper White, Black, Good Neighbor designer paper
Ink:  Tempting Turquoise, Rose Red, Certainly Celery, So Saffron
Accessories:  versamark, clear embossing powder, sponge daubers, ric rac, Spellbinder's scallop border die, markers

Pop on over to the Stampin Sisterhood blog to see the designs my sisters made, get the challenge details, and find out how you can win a prize!

Wednesday's Worktable Peek

 Pop on over to the Rubbernecker Stampin Sisterhood blog for the full reveal!  Thanks and have a wonderful day!

The Fisherman and His Wife

The CCEE Stampers are back from their holiday respite and raring to go with Frances' first challenge of 2012!  She challenged the team to make a card using one of the Grimm's Fairy Tales as our inspiration. 

I chose the fairy tale of The Fisherman and His Wife and got the idea to merge two of the Rubbernecker Old Characters images for my design.  Meet cantankerous Ralph and Ethel.  They've been married for a very looooooooooong time and have a tendency to get on each other's last nerve.  Here's Ethel trying to tell Ralph how to fish.

I colored them with Copic markers, cut them out, and arranged Ethel slightly behind her husband Ralph the Fisherman.

I know of a couple in real life who love each other very much but are kind of like Ralph and Ethel.  They'll get a kick out of this card for their anniversary.

Be sure to swing by our CCEE Stampers' blog to see what the rest of the team designed for this challenge.  Maybe you'd like to play along with us, too!

Sisterhood Sunday - Silver Bells

It's time for another Rubbernecker Sisterhood Sunday challenge!  You, too, can participate in our challenge and enter a chance to become a Sunday Sister, as well as win a prize.  Get all the details on our Stampin' Sisterhood blog.

This week we were given this beautiful photo as our inspiration.

I absolutely love the vibrant blue and silver combo and, therefore, labeled my card Silver Bells (I love the song Silver Bells, too)!  Here's how I was inspired for my card design.

I stamped the Bells with Holly image with Versamark and heat embossed it with silver embossing powder.  The bells, bow, and berries were colored with Copic markers; the holly with Silver Smooch.  I painted glitter over the bow

Here's a complete list of the supplies I used:

Stamps:  Bells with Holley (#209-08)

Paper:  Brilliant Blue, Whisper White
Accessories:  Copic markers, Versamark, silver embossing powder, heat tool, Silver Smooch, glitter, silver brads, Classic and Lacey Squares Nestabilities, Martha Stewart Punch Around The Page Snowflake Punch

Again, please visit our Stampin' Sisterhood blog for the challenge details, as well as to see the designs of my Rubbernecker Sisters!

Getting the Tree

Please visit the Rubbernecker Stampin' Sisterhood blog for the complete details on my card!  Thank you! 

Sisterhood Sunday - A Sketch Challenge

Yes, it's time for another Rubbernecker Sisterhood Sunday!  Today's challenge is a sketch challenge.

I pulled out sexy "Carrie" for my holiday card today.  I watercolored her dress and wrap with Stampin' Up reinkers using Cherry Cobbler and Always Artichoke.  I colored her skin, hair, and shoes with Copic markers.  The polkadotted designer paper is from Stampin' Up's designer series pack - Regals Collection.

Please visit our Stampin' Sisterhood blog to see what my sisters Julia, Frances, and Jen created and the challenge details to see how you can join us with an opportunity to win a prize!

I'm also submitting my card to this week's Pals Paper Arts color challenge to use Cherry Cobbler, Always Artichoke, and Very Vanilla.

My supplies:
Stamps:  Carrie (Fashion Ladies 2010 - SKU #494-05);
Paper:  Very Vanilla, Cherry Cobbler, Always Artichoke, Stampin' Up Regals Designer Series Collection
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Cherry Cobbler, Always Artichoke
Accessories:  Long Classic and Scalloped Rectangle Nestabilities, Classic Circle Nestability, Candi gold brads, large polkadotted embossing folder, corner rounder, Copic markers, reinkers, oval punch, green organdy ribbon, marker, dimensionals

Sisterhood Sunday

Happy Sunday and welcome to Sisterhood Sunday!  Today kicks off the first of the weekly Sisterhood Sunday challenges by the Rubbernecker design team members.  We were given the following photo as our inspiration piece.

I drew upon the rich colors from the photo seeing Soft Suede, Cherry Cobbler, and Gold for my design.  I used this beautiful poinsettia image, coloring it first with Ranger's Fired Brick and then sponging Stampin' Up's rich Cherry Cobbler in the center for depth. I stamped it twice, cut it out, and separated with dimensionals.   The center of the poinsettia is a Candi gold embellishment that looks like a brad but isn't (they are cool!)  I used brushed gold cardstock for my leaves and then crimped them.  I also used the Pine Sprig in the background stamping it first with Soft Suede and then heat embossing it with metallic gold.

I also used a Sizzix Flourish embossing folder on the Soft Suede panel.  I topped it off by adding touches of gold with my gold leafing pen and then spritzing champagne shimmer mist over the entire piece of cardstock.  I felt my gold organdy ribbon needed a little something extra, so I added what was originally gold cord that I colored with a Cardinal Red Copic marker.

Please visit the Rubbernecker blog to see what my other sisters from the Stampin' Sisterhood have created for your viewing pleasure and also for details on how you can win a prize!